Rewilding Ireland

This page had a good run Will be moving to SpéirGorm with same name and same musings 🟦☁️

I started Ireland's most ambitious camera trap project in Wicklow as part of Snapshot Europe. Since 2021, I partnered with @UCD_Wildlife + @ReWildWicklow deploying 150 cameras, collecting ~400,000 photos, and ~31 years worth of survey effort. 2024's highlights below! 🧵👇

A wintery morning today in SW part of Białowieża Forest. -10°C throughout the night froze all the waterbodies including rivers, yet still Pygmy Owls & Hazel Grouses were vocally active in the sunshine. Still the most interesting was two Red Deer stags rutting! Exceptionally late!

Clean the drains Drain the land Cut the trees Clear the mess

Nativeness as Gradient? Beyond the Native/Alien Binary... Towards a More Complete Value Assessment of Species in a Rapidly Changing World 🌎🌍🌏 doi.org/10.1007/s10806…

besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10… There's serious ecological discussions to be had by adults about deer management, it would be great if all stakeholders were mature enough to be at the table.

Stuff like this feeds the narrative that hunters only care about hunting and not nature.

"Worrying development" Buddy, what do you think happens naturally?

@zanzare96 (Our voting system) is something I understand a chara. I should have added the caveat of May be a need to vote tactically in some areas - mea cupla Would hope people research themselves before doing before listening to an account with a wolf as a photo

@RewildingIre Thats not how PRSTV (our voting system) works. If your preferred candidate doesn't get in, your vote will transfer to the next candidate.

This account will be posting more on BlueSky, and less here - this place is being overrun by losers and fools. Don't forget to vote Friday, vote left, transfer left. Catch you on the flipside.

@LeftLost_Pltcs @BrianCrunchie @BirdWatchIE @BirdsMatter_ie @BioDataCentre @Irishwildlife @Team_eBird @NatureRTE Not native - loved by blackcaps for some reason

@RewildingIre @BrianCrunchie @BirdWatchIE @BirdsMatter_ie @BioDataCentre @Irishwildlife @Team_eBird @NatureRTE Thats the exact one ! I don't thi n it's native but I saw a bumblebee on it last week too

Got a little excited spotting a male Blackcap (Sylvia atricapilla) out our garden at the feeders. I sat in my shed hopefully to see it return and get a photo, no such luck, as it would have been my first this season. Instead here's one of my regulars, Goldcrest (Regulus regulus)

@LeftLost_Pltcs @BrianCrunchie @BirdWatchIE @BirdsMatter_ie @BioDataCentre @Irishwildlife @Team_eBird @NatureRTE Mahonia?

@BrianCrunchie @BirdWatchIE @BirdsMatter_ie @BioDataCentre @Irishwildlife @Team_eBird @NatureRTE The blackcaps love the potato vine berries in my garden and will also peck at the late flowering yellow spiky Bush (can't think [of name)

EXTRAORDINARY One of the most extreme events in 3 centuries of European climatic history. Hundreds of stations with Tmins above summer averages, up to 7/8C above JULY averages Unbelievable MINIMUMS up to 23C in Asturias ,Northern Spain. Max >28C France,updates later

15°C in southern England tomorrow—just 4 weeks before Christmas. Most of England will be ~8°C above the seasonal norm. 🌍 The wild climate swings we’re seeing will only intensify as the planet continues to warm.

Like rivers overhead, the branches of this tree bring life where they wander. Growing for centuries in our Ancient Wood reserve in Ballinakelly, the entire area was probably named after this wood. In the Irish language Ballinakelly is "Baile na coille", the townland of the woods

@blues155 Go suck a lemon and stay sour

@RewildingIre It is not punching down to charge asylum seekers who work for their accommodation They should have been paying since 2018. Why haven't they been paying Are you going to give everyone else who works this free handout that is worth 12k a year if you earn over 600 per wk

This site is dying a quick death and not posting much anymore but imploring Irish followers to critically assess politicians during the election and not vote for charlatans & loons FG have been in power since 2011, they did a budget a few weeks ago - 11% is a dangling 🥕

@yellowlabrador I wouldn't be started to vote Ind Ire if I felt that way If I was in that position, I would research, vote tactically, look at parties that are consistent over yrs in ecosocialist views & ultimately reflect on if I think politics/gov is only something that happens at elections

@RewildingIre to be quite honest, what do any of the parties stand for. They will say what they think we want to hear. Every where I look , I see lies, deception and greed.

@yellowlabrador You certainly voted green I am sure. If you happy to vote for a group that will be ineffective in gov or opp, anti-vaxx, anti-climate action and anti-immigration - vote for them but just know that vote will make things that are bad now worse. Many parties have green policy

@RewildingIre I follow parties and politians to find out what they stand for, not neccesarily because I am a fan. All my life I've been a green voter but not for this lot.