@ruairi44.bsky.social
Proud public servant. Trees, Parks, Gardens, Hurling. Wandering through the natural world. Gaeilge agus fáilte.
Today, hanging around the Lime trees, the Speckled Wood Butterfly, Pararge aegeria, Breacfhéileacán coille.
30.07.2025 17:31 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Yesterday
26.07.2025 23:13 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Today made considerably brighter by the now flowering Monarda "Electric Neon Purple". Mobbed by pollinators. Also known as Bee Balm or Bergamot. Balsam na mBeach (my translation)
16.07.2025 22:50 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Today I was loitering around the Persicaria. The pollinators were busy.
09.07.2025 21:42 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Today snooping around the Hogweed, our voracious aphid munching friend 🧡 the Seven-spot Ladybird🐞. Bóín Dé.
08.07.2025 21:19 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Another pollinator at work atop the golden common Ragwort, Jacobaea vulgaris. An Buachalán buí.
07.07.2025 21:11 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Sea Holly, Eryngium Big Blue, Cuileann duimhche. Here with pollinator deftly defying the spines.
06.07.2025 23:53 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Today wherever you are, this beautiful Francoa furiously flowering. Here with busy visitor.
26.06.2025 20:16 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Today wherever you are a couple of six-spot Burnet Moths enjoying each other's company ♥️ on a bed of Red Clover. Buirnéad.
18.06.2025 18:19 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Today wherever you are, a busy day for the Hogweed pollinators. Heracleum, Feabhrán.
15.06.2025 21:30 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Today wherever you are, this beauty spied in a grass verge, a lone Pyramidal Orchid, Anacamptis pyramidalis, Magairlín na stuaice.
13.06.2025 19:45 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Today wherever you are, at least one of these ladybirds is feasting on deliciously juicy aphids. 🐞🐞 Bóín Dé.
11.06.2025 21:28 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Today wherever you are, we're buzzing around the Buttercups. Ranunculus, Cam an ime.
02.06.2025 19:27 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Today I'm sharing Allium in full flower.
30.05.2025 21:00 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Today wherever you are, the baby Oaks are welcoming rain. Quercus, Dair.
24.05.2025 04:44 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
#Bluesky Grand Canal Lime tree green reflections.
19.05.2025 00:02 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Today wherever you are, the delicate beauty of Cow parsley inflorescence. Anthriscus sylvestris, Peirsil bhó.
13.05.2025 18:47 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Today wherever you are, the wonderful Red Hawthorn, Crataegus "Paul's Scarlet "
Sceach gheal
Today wherever you are, Comfrey emerging. Symphytum. A beautiful plant well known for.uts medicinal uses. Known in Irish as Lus na gcnámh briste.
08.05.2025 07:50 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Today wherever you are a gentle stream of Tulip consciousness flows through The People's Park, Dún Laoghaire. Sruthán bándearg.
30.04.2025 21:39 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Today wherever you are, I hope you are lucky enough to get close to the Horse Chestnut in flower, here with visitor. Aesculus, Crann Cnó capaill. #Earthday2025 🌎
22.04.2025 21:56 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Today wherever you are, April's damp Dandelion. Caisearbhán.
18.04.2025 20:44 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Today wherever you are the stunning Forget-me-not in various shades of inflorescence. Myosotis, Lus míonla.
17.04.2025 22:09 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Today wherever you are, Ash bud breaking with flower. Fraxinus, Fuinseog.
15.04.2025 22:04 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Today wherever you are, a great time to practice Hanami, 花見, literally "flower viewing". No better subject than the spectacular Prunus Kanzan now doing its thing.
13.04.2025 22:47 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Today wherever you are, spectacular full Moon sky. Oíche lán ghealaí.
12.04.2025 22:20 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Today wherever you are, Blackthorn flower detail. Prunus spinosa, Draighean.
08.04.2025 21:31 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Today wherever you are, the exquisite new leaves of Whitebeam, Sorbus aria, Fionncholl.
06.04.2025 20:55 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Today wherever you are, the cultivated and the wild. Box hedge trying to contain ruly Anemones. Foirmeálta agus fián.
05.04.2025 21:01 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Today wherever you are, a gate opens into a secret garden, framed by Magnolia.
04.04.2025 21:09 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
