First photos taken just after St Brighid's Day - the boundary of Winter and Spring,
in the company of 'Tour Guide Extraordinaire' Ray McGrath, Chair of Irish Wildlife Trust in Waterford.
Path down into 'The Glen'
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River Suir Wetland
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Route into wood from river bank
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tangled ivy and ferns
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boundary wall
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boundary wall |
old boundary bank - from three angles
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fungus on roting timber
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searching for blue fungus
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gall
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view across to Island
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boundary wall
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Sweet Chestnut
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Hazel copse?
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turquoise fungus
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lower nettle bank field
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copper coloured fungus
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lower nettle bank field
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middle path cuts through from newly cleared nettle bank field
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upper nettle bank field
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upper nettle bank field
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upper deer park wall
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deer park boundary - lowered by time or design
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old boundary wall incorporated into deer park wall
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deer park boundary - lowered by time or design
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view back down the hill - along old boundary wall
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old stone wall - ferns ... annual or prerennial?
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old stone wall
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are there still deer in the woods?
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original deerpark wall height?
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original capstone?
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mountain biker or forest ranger - health and safety
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first furze flowers
self seeded oak |
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entrance to wood by road
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deer park wall and early roadway facing south from top of hill?
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 did we turn left? |
across to falun hill
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faithlegg townsland
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fungus watch
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fungus on gorse
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site of the Battle of the Manaan, 1999 |
view across to Faithlegg
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site of the Battle of the Manaan, 1999
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mount bike track |
fraochan ? |
bike skids |
mass roack?
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known to have been bare rock in the 50's?
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view over cheekpoint |
view across river
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just past the flax well
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the flax field
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view back to flax field
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route of old road down to village lost to development
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cleared bank with bluebells
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old wall with modern planting
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holly flowers
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cleared bank with bluebells
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not called dogweed! |
wexford |
pool for frogspawn
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