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Sunday 16th Jan 2022 – Walk through the Wetlands

Sunday 5th Dec 2021 – Monthly 360 Video

Had a frost last night but still warmer and drier than usual for the time of year. Here’s a 360 4K video of the Wetlands. Enjoy.

Sunday 14th Nov 2021 – Monthly 360 Video

Lovely and sunny today as I walked through the wetlands. Hard to believe its mid-November! Remember this is a 360 4K video so you can look in any direction 🙂

31st October 2021 – Walk through the wetlands

Here’s a two-part 4K 360 video of a walk through the wetlands today. I was surprised by how much scrub land had been cleared with just rushes starting to grow up.

6th August 2021 – Walk through the wetlands

Here’ a 360 4K video of my monthly walk through the wetlands.

13th July 2021 – Emperor Dragonfly

Below is a photo Jimmy Doyle grabbed on his phone at lunch time in the wetland. . We think it is an emperor dragonfly, they apparently like newly established wetlands. We had spotted one a couple of weeks ago but this is the 1st picture we managed.

“The Emperor Dragonfly (Anax imperator) is the biggest dragonfly to be found in Ireland. It is between 7 and 8cm (3-3.5 inches) long. The Emperor Dragonfly was first recorded in Ireland as recently as 2000, an impressive insect, which gives a master class in aerobatics!” …

Tues 15th June 2021 – Biodiversity Workshops

Micheál did a wonderful job on his first biodiversity session with the youngest Gaelscoil classes today.  It was fun and informative for the adults and children alike.  It was obvious how much time and effort he put into the preparation.  Attached are a selection of images which give some of the flavour of the day. (There will be another session tomorrow)

Sun 6th June 2021 – Lovely walk in the…

Lovely walk pity I kept getting the date wrong in the video! Select high def and use your mouse when viewing in Youtube 🙂

Friday 28th May 2021 – Restoring Log Piles

A group of us met today at 2:30 pm to move the logs back to their original positions and restore the log piles, which will naturally rot providing a habitat for beetles, etc.

Well done to all involved and a special thanks to the group of young people who also helped us.

Interesting to see some dragonfly casings

And one small one was spotted flying over one of the lakes 🙂

The place looked great afterwards.

Sunday 3rd May 2021

Took myself out in the wind for a walk to the allotments earlier today and took a few panoramas going through the wetlands 🙂

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