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Weds 3rd June 2020 – Great photos of dragon…

  • 4th June 2020
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Carmel Shaw and her partner Jimmy took these amazing pictures of dragonflies a few days ago. Thanks for sharing.

I was there yesterday and saw 20 or so dragonflies in the far pond mating and laying eggs.

Female azure damselfly
Dragonfly
Four spotted chaser
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Friday 29th May 2020 – More willows removed

  • 29th May 202029th May 2020
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Great weather again as Olive, John, Tom and I removed more willows.

Plenty of young sally rods being bagged by John, Tony and Olive
Tom and John hard at it.
Tom gathering the bags of young willow. A whole potential forest in there!
Panorama shot of Tom and John hard at it!
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Monday 25th May 2020 – The Willow cull continues

  • 25th May 202025th May 2020
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Olive, Tom, John and myself spent a fruitful hour or so this morning digging out the young willows. We marked out squares using bamboo and maintaining a 2m safe distance worked in pairs to clear these areas of willows.

We started with some trepidation as the ground is so hard. But after marking up two square areas we got stuck into the work and the willows, having surprisingly small roots, came up fairly easy with minimal digging.

And after an hour or so we had quite a haul of young willows ready to go to the green waste area of the Shannon Recycling Centre. A good job all round!

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Tues 19th May 2020 – Lovely pictures of flowers…

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Olive e-mailed me these photos from Carmel Shaw. The second is a yellow flag iris and the first is possibly a type of daisy. Can someone identify it?

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Saturday 16th May 2020 – Swallows drinking

  • 16th May 202016th May 2020
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While so much of the wetlands is currently dried, caked mud looking more like a scene from a desert the swallows still find stretches of water to drink on the wing. Lovely. These are the first swallows I’ve seen this summer. 🙂

And here are a few photos 🙂

The tree looks in a bad way
While the water level is very low these plants are ideal for damsel and dragonflies larvae to hatch from later.
Saw two herons flying overhead as I walked to Shannon Town Park
Saw my first swallows of 2020 in Shannon Town Park
In Shannon Wetlands swallows took a drink on the wing
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Thursday 14th May 2020 – Eoghan Birchall photos

  • 15th May 202015th May 2020
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Was sent sent lovely photos of the wetlands by Jacquie Murphy that were taken by Eoghan Birchall.

Good luck in the forthcoming photo competition Eoghan 🙂

  • Eoghan Birchall  May 2020
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Tues 28th March 2020 – The Shannon Town Community…

  • 29th April 202029th April 2020
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A lovely Zoom meeting took place today which educated and encouraged the participants to start recording the presence of the dragon and damsel flies on the Shannon Wetlands.

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Mon 20th April 2020 – Mallard duck photo

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Lovely photos taken by Thomas Chambers including that of a female mallard duck examining the water
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mallard

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Tues 7th April 2020 – Super Pink Moon

  • 10th April 202010th April 2020
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A few photographs taken by Carmel Shaw of the incredible moon last night.  She also saw the owl and the first bat of the season there.  Great to see so many people out and about in the wetland, all keeping their social distance from each other of course.

mde
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Weds 25th March 2020 – Some lovely photos from…

  • 26th March 202026th March 2020
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These photos were taken today by Ruairí Ó Conchúir (Community Water Officer). They remind us how nature lifts our spirits in these worrying COVID-19 times.

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