Was glad to find (fairly confident on ID) Polytrichastrum alpinum - decent sized plants/apical cells of lamellae papillate. Fás garr go maith go bharr Binn Bhán sna Mám toirce inné. Also seen Raco lan sporophytes for the first time - reminded me of candle holder from beauty and the beast 😄

Bioacoustics? Already finished it mate. (Praying this design works and all detectors come back safely)

Corcóg agus Leic aimhréidh maidin inné

First record of oceanic liverwort Plagiochila bifaria for co. Armagh (VC H37) from near St Moninna’s Well, Sliabh gCuillinn Hanging out above a rock face with a small waterfall below some rowans. Associates included Metzgeria conjugata. #bryophytes #bryology #ireland #liverwort

Lovely gemmiferous Scapania nemorea in the rain today, crab apple and a few yew seedlings in a gem conamara woodland

Bhí an portach go haláinn innui

Registration is live for our next Green Drinks! 🙌🏽

Had fun working with the @rhodorangers.bsky.social over the weekend to tackle invasive rhodo in Connemara!

The next Galway Green Drinks is Oct 14! We're excited to have Dr. Nóirín Burke & Dr. Maria Vittoria Marra from Galway Atlantaquaria speak about ocean literacy and the multiple ways they foster it through their work in the aquarium. Register: eventbrite.com/e/galway-green-drinks-tickets-1685827217589

Coill baile na hInse ansin inné, obair agus aimsir don nádúr chéanna ach níor stop sé sin muid

A long weekend of slow work digging up regrowth from old stumps and seedlings while getting stung by bees and drenched in the odd downpour at our first site in Corr Uí Mhongáin..... mostly done here but some giant rhubarb will eventually need seeing to

This was such a fun event, so glad I got to represent the @rhodorangers.bsky.social !

Last night @hetzgonnabeme.bsky.social presented Galway Green Drinks at the Galway Climate Inspirations Festival's Giob Geab event. Each participant had 5 minutes to talk about their project, using 5 slides and mainly images. It was great learning about all the incredible work being done in Galway!

Very pleased to have found Daltonia splachnoides from Poll an Aifrinn, the 1st record for co. Monaghan I have been wanting to see this species for a while. Very typical Irish habitat of willow thickets in an upland plantation. Associated included Colura calyptrifolia & Lejeunea patens #bryophytes

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Another successful Green Drinks event in the books! Thanks to all who attended

Thanks to everyone who joined us at Galway Green Drinks last night! We had another great talk by Janet Laffey from LAWPRO. Join us every second Tuesday for networking and informative talks!

Well done @hetzgonnabeme.bsky.social for organising this new hit in Galway city!

Suspected Sphagnum contortum from an upland flush - Log an tairbh, Conamara. Ní raibh aon tarbh ann ach bhí rotha (reithe)

The health and integrity of a habitat is crucial to its resilience against invasive species such as Rhododendron as demonstrated by the lack of rhododendron present in this very wet blanket bog in Coill mór, Conamara vs old conifer plantation (which would have been drained). Pics from same spot

Just an hour and 20 minutes left to sign, people. If you haven't done so yet, it only takes a few seconds!

Just found some good patches of the beautiful moss Ptilium cristacastrensis in a conifer plantation in the lowlands of Angus, eastern Scotland.

Bratphortach álainn i nGleann Eidhneach innui

Bhí iontas orm tíocht trasna ar crann creathach amuigh in Inis Toirc. Áit nach gheobhfadh mórán crainnte

A small bit of Dog's bay's (or land south of) bryodiversity in Conamara this week

Crab apple at the foot of na beanna beola, first time for me seeing it in Conamara and what a beauty of an example

www.eventbrite.com/e/galway-gre... Galway People! Green Drinks is back again this month! Janet Laffey from LAWPRO will be talking this month! Bígí Linn!

It's flat out seed collecting in #LyeValley #fen. Greater Bird's foot Trefoil & then Marsh Helleborine orchid pods. All seed extracted to be put straight back out in newly scythed restoration areas. Might have to wait 7 yrs for the orchids! @bsbibotany.bsky.social @freshwaterhabitats.bsky.social

Anyone got any tips/experience on good, green cover crops for sowing this autumn/winter in the west of Ireland? Never done it and am keen to suppress weeds and minimise soil erosion on my small patch

Micranthes stellaris, starry saxifrage in flower today south of Corcóg

Sagina subulata/heath pearlwort ag thart ar 400m i leic na bhFearna. Níl sé ach feicigh agam garr don cladach roimhe seo

Join the @rhodorangers.bsky.social at our next #greendrinks event to learn about local water quality! @david-smyth-eco.bsky.social @cianoceallaigh.bsky.social

Another great day fighting the rhodo invasion in beautiful Conamara!

The monthly visits continued yesterday with a nice breeze to keep the midges away. An-bhuíoch don slua a tháinig amach don lá @hetzgonnabeme.bsky.social @david-smyth-eco.bsky.social @dermotbreen.bsky.social @stevil-weevil.bsky.social @cianoceallaigh.bsky.social

Thrilled with the consistent turnout at our Green Drinks events!

Thanks to everyone who joined us Tuesday night for our monthly #greendrinks event! We're thrilled with the turnout and connections being made. A big thanks also to David Foy, who gave a great presentation about the EU Nature Restoration Law and what it means for Ireland.

Imagine having the sort of courage that chooses almost certain death over silence. You don't need to imagine: that exactly describes Palestinian journalists in Gaza, 250 of whom have been assassinated by the Israeli military in less than 2 years.

Not something I have always kept an eye out for but recent conversations about Irelands natural/historic treeline has had me keeping my eyes out in the uplands. Bog wood at 420m above líonán

A short thread on Páirc Náisiúnta na Mara (National Park of the Sea) in Kerry, whichI visitedlast month. This was announced in 2024 along with the purchase by the State of land at the Conor Pass... 🧵

Another old woodland we last worked at last year (baile na hInse) where some of our (professionally trained) volunteers treated this monster 0.5 acre thicket of rhodo. Glad to see that about 90-95% of it is without foliage. We'll be going back to this site in September to carry out follow up work

I took the first soil sample of my PhD today in a grassland managed by @ceanncait.bsky.social Lots of nice neutral grassland plants and at least 17 pathogen species in my plot – I will be analysing the network of interactions at each site and hopefully learning something about how the networks form

A nice change this week to be in a dry habitat for a change 😁

Excited for this one, hope to see you there!

Succession very clearly visible on Errisbeg mountain (zoom in) where enclosed fields have become covered in dry heath in contrast to the fields which have been kept grassy green

Have you registered for our next #GreenDrinks event? It's a great way to meet others doing important environmental work, and we'll have a great speaker on the night. Contact @hetzgonnabeme.bsky.social or @david-smyth-eco.bsky.social for more info and register here: eventbrite.com/e/galway-gre...

Bhí mé ag iarraidh é seo a thriail píosa anois le haghaidh seans a thabhairt don caorthann seo (thart ar 10-15 bliaina d'aois ó mo chuimhne), capaille agus beithígh na ngarraí seo so beidh sé suimiúil feiceáil cé chomh maith is a seasfadh sé

A quick morning wade for our ranger in Dean Village to remove four Himalayan balsam plants before they get a chance to seed.

Seen what I believe to be Sphagnum beothuk in a very good conditioned section of bog in Bun Abhann, tuaisceart Conamara y'day forming a small hummock

Blasia pusila growing on loose rock along an upland river bank and (suspected) Sphagnum platyphyllum growing with Scorpidium spp. today in Bun a'Bhioscáin, Mám today

1st Irish record of the newly described bryophilous ascomycete Endoantria benetecta on its host Lejeunea patens from the temperate rainforest at Correl Glen, West Fermanagh Known only from Scotland & Wales; this marks the first for Ireland - our rainforests support untold diversity #fungifriends