
Tues 19th May 2020 – Lovely pictures of flowers…
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?


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?
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 🙂
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 🙂
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.
Lovely photos taken by Thomas Chambers including that of a female mallard duck examining the water
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mallard
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.
These photos were taken today by Ruairà Ó Conchúir (Community Water Officer). They remind us how nature lifts our spirits in these worrying COVID-19 times.
Here’s an article that inlcudes our recent World Wetlands Day event in Shannon
Also here’s another article of a more general nature. Enjoy 🙂
Jacquie Murphy, who is a teacher in The Comp in Shannon, has set up a student Photography Club called Comp-Pix and one the students called Eoghan Birchall has taken the following photos of the wetlands recently.
Thanks Eoghan. Wondrfully atmospheric photos and well done!
Today due to the increase in traffic we switched where our pages are hosted from the free service from www000WebHost.com at:
https://shannontowncommunitywetlands.000webhostapp.com/
to the paid service behind a www.Hostinger.com server.
Our domain name www.ShannonTownWetlands.ie was then made to re-direct to this new server. All existing pages/pots were transferred to this new server by Hostinger.com.
It all seems OK but please get in touch if you experience anything strange. Thanks.
After a week or so I’ll remove the old server pages and redirect surfers to the our website.