Photo on left is of annual cornflower mix, not much good for biodiversity. Golf fairway is probably a fescue monoculture, not much good for biodiversity either.

Hummingbird are green crowned brilliant

Corncrake declining in Ireland/UK for over a hundred years unfortunately. The introduction of the horse drawn mowers was the main start of decline

Some colour on your whitethorn!

INHFA complaining about NPWS buying land (tiny amounts) for conservation. One of those sites in Belmullet is an important corncrake breeding site, mushroom factory site where spent mushroom compost was dumped....

Great work all!

Now you see me....

Now you don't!

A photo from a @rhodorangers.bsky.social day out from a while back

And an opportunity to reintroduce ourselves...

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Zero respect for other species

Corncrake centre-out mowing. First cut silage, probably the latest in the country. Saw a very late corncrake in the nettles before mowing started. Mowing is definitely the most stressful day in the year

Biggest effect on fox numbers in Poland has been the eradication of rabies through vaccination.

Never met with NPWS staff.

The more stakeholders you have, the more difficult it is to achieve good environmental outcomes, unfortunately.

Have you seen Lady's Island lagoon (wexford) during the summer. It was green.....

Heather Humphreys promised to learn Irish 11 years ago when she was appointed Minister for Arts, Heritage, regional and ruarl affairs and the Gaeltacht in 2014.... She didn't do much then, but I'm sure the promise she is making now is more sincere.....

100% commitment from Corncrake Life project team is a major reason for increase in corncrake numbers

Definitely a vector for transmission. For example mineral licks for cattle in buckets left out in pasture for cattle. Badgers love the molasses mineral licks and then cattle lick the buckets = transmission....

Great work!!!

Maim garden pond (4m) looking near what a natural pond would look like! Yellow rattle spreading around the grassy margins, so hopefully next year, the grass will not be as heavy.

Putting more funding into results based agri-environmental schemes to improve farmland biodiversity would improve image more than more funding for propaganda campaigns. There seem to be endless Ag PR campaigns....

The Salmon of Knowledge was from the Boyne, now the fact the boyne has salmon will likely be mythology as well.....

Wow, amazing!

Government more worried about retaining nitrates derogation than actual water quality/biodiversity....

Corncrake habitat on Shannon Callows was seasonally flooded meadows not bog. Rewetted bog is a great habitat for many species including curlew but not corncrake

They have some amount of ponds!

Bought my house in 2020 and only saw pygmy shrew. Year after saw the first greater white toothed shrew, haven't seen a pygmy since

Clearing cleavers out of corncrake nettle beds. Autumn sown cleavers produce huge amounts of seed, while spring sown produce less. Removing seed reduces cleavers growth for following year

Wow, that's a great garden species to have!!!!

Great job!

Not the first time, previously over 400 million euros was moved from Natura 2000 farmers to Pillar I payments.

Peat being harvested for animal bedding as well