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Wild garlic (Allium ursinum) leaves and delicate flowers covering the Hazel wood floor as their smell fills the air 🧄 County Clare, Ireland. Cormacscoast.com walking tours

An Irish Stoat (Mustela erminea hibernica). One of the very few endemic mammal species remaining in ireland. The Irish stoat is a distinct subspecies of stoat found only in Ireland and on the isle of man. This poor wee one didn't make it accross the road 😢 County Clare, Ireland

A two tone granitic shore-stone. County Clare, Ireland. Cormacscoast.com walking tours

European Starling (Sturnus vulgaris) egg shells. The freshly hatched chicks were cheeping away softly in the nest behind me. 🐦‍⬛🐦‍⬛ County Clare, Ireland. Cormacscoast.com walking tours

A wee tangle of Keelworm (Spirobranchus triqueter) casings. Under and upper sides. County Clare, Ireland. Cormacscoast.com walking tours

A Bluebell (Hyacinthoides non-scripta) carpet beneath the Hazel woods. County Clare, Ireland. Cormacscoast.com walking tours

An unfurling fiddle-head in the Burren National park. County Clare, Ireland. Cormacscoast.com walking tours

A Beadlet anemone (Actinia equina) in a rockpool, with its blue "beads" on display. They are stinging cells that they use in territorial disputes with other anemones. County Clare, Ireland. Cormacscoast.com walking tours

A layer of what looks like Fools Gold (iron pyrite) and Coal (anthracite) running through this chunk of shale. County Clare, Ireland. Cormacscoast.com walking tours

Sparkling sea under fluffy clouds. County Clare, Ireland. Cormacscoast.com walking tours

An Early Purple Orchid (Orchis mascula) popping up all across the Burren over the last week. 💜 County Clare, Ireland. Cormacscoast.com walking tours

Drystone walls of "Cathair Duin Irghuis" an old Burren fort built near Blackhead. County Clare, Ireland. Cormacscoast.com walking tours

🔊 Whispering wavelets. County Clare, Ireland. Cormacscoast.com walking tours

A constellation of Crinoid fossils. In a nodule fragment, eroded from dark shale, sedimentary deposits. County Clare, Ireland. Cormacscoast.com walking tours

A Dandelion cluster so beautiful it could have inspired Van Gogh 😍 County Clare, Ireland. Cormacscoast.com walking tours

Goniatite googly eyes 👀 Fossilized Goniatite shells - 300 million years old relatives of modern Squid and Octopus. County Clare, Ireland. Cormacscoast.com walking tours

Ahhhh - the sound of Skylarks (Alauda arvensis) and a munching Donkey. County Clare, Ireland. Cormacscoast.com walking tours

Spring Gentian (Gentiana verna) Intense blue specks dotted about the Burren at this time of year. County Clare, Ireland Cormacscoast.com walking tours

Fiadh, loving life on the Cliffs of Moher. County Clare, Ireland. Cormacscoast.com walking tours

Tracks taken by rivulets of water over hundreds of years, worn into the Burren limestone. County Clare, Ireland. Cormacscoast.com walking tours