Luke

Deer capers at night can be the spookiest. Happy Halloween, welcome to the rut 🦌🌚

Only three legs and still top dog 👑

Plenty of exploring to do 🗺️🍁 @Glenveagh_NP

@gemma_harkin Along the Gweebarra estuary in Co. Donegal

@CaperTeach Where is this Luke?

Put a wildlife camera out on the farm in West Donegal over winter to see what's out there. And the winner is.... masses of 🦌.. 🧵

@ah960586 It’s a Browning nature camera

@CaperTeach Nice shots. What model camera are you using

Nice also to have spotted a pine marten and any amount of speedy iora rua and fieldmice in the woods. No grey squirrels this side of the Gweebarra (5/5)

The fox is the busiest lad on the farm, out almost every night following exactly the same paths to mark out his territory (4/5)

Big Sky dawn/dusk commutes through the Bluestack Mountains are hard to beat❄️

@JanGolden A Coillte plantation transitioning to managed native woodland- coillte.ie/site/bonny-gle…

@CaperTeach Where in Donegal? Private land?

The greens, golds, teals, purples and browns of regenerating conifers, hollies, willows, rowans and birches backed by an ancient oak wood at dusk in West Donegal today🍂

@croft1a I don’t know to be honest, it’s self seeded as are the vast majority of trees in the picture

@CaperTeach Would anyone object if you took out the spruce in the foreground ?

Us in 🇮🇪 can learn from 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 who can learn from 🇳🇴 on this one. There's a simplicity to it.

The surrounding blanket bogs in the Derryveagh Mountains are among the most extensive in Ireland. Small scale turf cutting continues within the park and large areas show signs of harvesting in the past. These pools were teeming with life in the heat. (End)

Electrofishing traps revealed some population of juvenile salmon and eel above Lough Veagh. Fish counters are helping Inland Fisheries monitor populations. Salmon runs this year were up on previous years. River pollution from intensification and warming seas biggest challenges...

Brilliant week in @GlenveaghPark with the Bridge House Education Centre conducting water habitat surveys, bog studies, learning about the ancient woodlands and invasive species management 🧵