Just chilling with the cool cats 🐈‍⬛ waiting for tit bits from the kitchen. ⁦Chris Packham⁩ ⁦Biodiversity Ireland⁩

Thread of mind-blowing marble sculptures 🧵 1. Bernini turned stone into flesh

Pebble Hook Tip, is always a joy to see. Caterpillars 🐛 mainly feed on Birch Trees.

Map-winged Swift, a wing any cubist artist would be proud of! Zoom in for full details.

One more from nature’s easel, a Buff Arches. Clothes designers will one day mimic these works of art.

This is what a Biodiversity-rich grassland looks like! These grasslands were once widespread across Ireland. This week, I joined members of the NPWS in County Kilkenny on a plant ID training day, and even gave it a go myself! Follow Irish Semi-natural Grasslands for more info.

Emperor Dragonfly taking a break!

A Linnet winging it! Cape Clear Island.

Migrant Hawker in the garden.

Irish Cuckoo Update - after spending a number of weeks on the French/Italian border Cores has now jumped the Mediterranean and Sahara and on the Sudan/Chad border. Living up to the tradition of migrating furthest east of BTO birds National Parks and Wildlife Service BirdWatch Ireland Kerry Bird News 1/2

A Canary Shouldered Thorn from last night, Myrtleville, County Cork. The feathered antenna shows it’s a male.

This might help dispel the myth that moths are ugly creatures. A Brimstone moth, a Peaches 🍑 Blossom, a gothic looking Dark Arches, a Flame Shoulder, another blossom and a Ruby Tiger. They need healthy hedgerows and wild flowers to complete their life cycle.

Red sky at night……

All the way from Southern Europe, a Bordered Straw, still not as pretty as some of the locals; Angle Shades, Goldspot and Canary Shouldered Thorn

A heart stone complete with Painted Lady!

Common Blue on Fleabane 🧡

No red eye flight for these two at the moment! Oystercatchers, Crosshaven

Silver linings!

Have articles in today’s Irish Daily Mirror and Daily Star challenging Irish myths about “feeding the world”, based around issues discussed in THE LIE OF THE LAND

⁦Thanks for such a memorable night in Cork ⁦The Bootleg Beatles⁩ Those songs are just timeless, spreading across the universe as we listen in awe.