My ongoing story of natural history and life on the coast of County Clare in the west side of Ireland and sometimes beyond . A evening swell at Lahinch. An evening swell at Lahinch ,. Wave conditions were flat all day , a 2. 5 m swell pulsed in from the south west around 3pm , by 5pm waves were head high along the reefs and beach . The sun may rise at in the east but least it settles in a fun location! My column in the North Clare Local.

Thursday, January 3, 2013. After Mike Conn gave a full refund on my broken Sigma 150-500 zoom lens, I put the money away safely and started looking for alternative lens options, which for the same price with the same reach, were non existent. And the money from my lens was gone.

Notes about birds, birding and travel from the Pioneer Valley in Western Massachusetts. Saturday, April 14, 2018. MA - Sandhill Cranes in Gill! Gill, Franklin Co. A raw afternoon birding off Riverview Drive, Gill produced some nice sightings ahead of the forecast cold front promising freezing rain by dawn. Dropped in to join a small number of Ring-billed. On the water, and nine Double-crested Cormorants. And a couple of Northern Rough-winged Swallows.

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Its good to see that the Mountshannon eagles are well on the way to completing a third successful breeding season. They have a single female chick again this year that hopefully will fledge in the next few weeks. The adult female was on the wing when I stopped in at Mountshannon on Friday. Saturday, 4 April 2015. It stood out from the usual Redpolls Carduelis flammea cabaret.

If you go down to the woods today . Autumn in the midlands! When I walk in these woodlands on days like this, my thoughts go back to school days and the poet Hopkins. And for all this, nature is never spent;. Woodville is a Coillte forest.