Mating butterflies
Pretty Meadow Brown butterflies are everywhere at the moment. These two are getting a little romantic. :-) #Nature #Butterfly #Summer
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Apr 21, 2019
Cuckoo Flower
First cuckoo flower! Love this little wildflower. Means our resident cuckoo is due to arrive back any time now. Must have heard the...
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Mar 24, 2019
Spring is coming
They're waking up. :-) #Nature #Trees #Spring #EcoHolidays
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Feb 28, 2019
Spring..and love..is in the air
Spring is in the air - and love is in the air too if you're a frog. We have lots of frog spawn in the usual places and frogs everywhere...
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Oct 3, 2018
The wildflower grand finale for this year
The wildflower final hurrah of the year at Lough Mardal is dominated by this beauty. The Devil's-bit scabious. I've come to love it so...
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Jul 25, 2018
Wild billbery-picking
We are very lucky to have wild bilberries growing along the shoreline and they are now ripe for picking! The girls actually managed to...
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Jun 21, 2018
Wildflower heaven
A small selection of the beautiful wildflowers that now dot the landscape at Lough Mardal #Wildflowers #Nature #Ecofriendly...
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Jun 21, 2018
Butterfly eggs
Cuckoo flower with teeny tiny orange specks that are the eggs laid by the orange tip butterfly. And two photobombing flies. And filthy...
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Apr 19, 2018
Cuckoo is Back!
The cuckoo is back! One of the loveliest sounds of Spring that stops you in your tracks. #Nature #Spring #Cuckoo #Birds
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Mar 20, 2018
#WorldFrogDay
All the frog spawn was frozen when we went on our routine inspection today. Incl one frog (demonstrating Darwin's theory). Will the frog...
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Mar 20, 2018
A Lonesome Snowdrop
A lonesome snowdrop. Hard to imagine in a matter of weeks the place will start transforming with new colours as the wildflowers start...
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Mar 10, 2018
Frogs Spawning
Now that the cold weather has passed the ditches by the lakeshore here are teeming with frogs all getting down to business and putting on...
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Jan 31, 2018
More Days Like These
Big news, the sun came out today. So it was the first decent walk for days that didn't feel like an endurance test. Although usually...
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Nov 14, 2017
Fluffy catkins
Exceptionally fluffy catkins on this Willow tree by the lake. The toddlers think it's a candy-floss tree. Or maybe it's more they wish it...
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Oct 31, 2017
Grey days can be beautiful too
Stunning Autumnal colours when the morning sun hits the forestry across the lake at the moment. Proving that grey days can be beautiful...
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Apr 16, 2017
Going Cuckoo
There was much excitement this morning at breakfast - the cuckoo is back! We have been looking forward to its arrival but weren't...
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