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Angle Shades Moth

Bluebell

A cloud formation at sunset

Field Rose

Loughcrew Neolithic cairn, County Meath, Ireland.

Loughcrew Neolithic Cairn, County Meath, Ireland.

Long Eared Bat

Compound Eyes of the Greenbottle Fly

Pipistrelle Bat on the Hunt

German Wasp on Ivy Berries

Bumblebee flying to a Bluebell for nectar.

Bumble-Bee

Mute Swan on the Nest.

Compound Eyes of the Four Spotted Chaser Dragonfly

Brown Long Eared Bat (juvenile)

Blue Tailed Damselfly

Foxgloves

Brown Long Eared Bat

Grasshopper, photographed mid-leap.

Red Squirrel.

Male Blue-Tailed Damselfly in mid-flight.

Emerald Damselfly in mid-flight

Common Hawker Dragonfly in mid-flight

Common Hawker Dragonfly in mid-flight

Female Sparrowhawk at a kill

Mute Swan

Cuckoo (male)

Orange Tip Butterfly

A Swarm of Honey Bees.

Common Blue damselfly in mid flight.

Badger foraging in deciduous woodland.

Stunted Tree on Cuilcagh Mountain, County Cavan, Ireland. (b&w)

Badger foraging in woodland.
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Female Banded Demoiselle
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Female Banded Demoiselle
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Ringlet Butterfly

Seven Spot Ladybird
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Red Deer Stag
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Swallow in mid-flight.
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Swallow in mid flight.
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Long Eared Owl.
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Damselfly

Oak Eggar Moth
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Orb Web Spider
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Common Field Grasshopper.

Male Bullfinch
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Goldcrest

Red Fox
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The evening Sun.
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Snowdrops

Grasshopper

Bluebells.

Large Red Damselfly

Meadow Pipit in full song.

Irish Hare

Caterpillar on a Cuckoo Flower
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Beech Tree in Spring (zoomed exposure)

Blue Tit

Cracked Bark on a tree trunk and encroaching moss.)

Black Snake Milipede

Feathered Thorn Moth (Colotois pennaria) and a mighty Oak Tree.

Pine Marten climbing up a Lime tree.

Swallows play-fighting.

Common Hawker Dragonfly.

Green Veined White Butterfly in flight.

Female Sparrowhawk at a kill.

Orange Tip Butterfly in flight

Badger foraging in deciduous woodland.

Hairy Dragonfly at rest.

Mute Swan Family, County Cavan, Ireland, Planet Earth.

Barn Swallows

Grey Heron Taking flight.

Wood Pigeon feeding on Elder berries.

Red Admiral Butterfly

Orb Web Spider

Badger

Pine Marten

Cuckoo

Red Fox

Brown Hawker Dragonfly

Brown Hawker Dragonfly

Pine Marten

Brown Hawker Dragonfly

Mute Swan Cygnet

Badgers play fighting.

Badgers play fighting.

Mute Swans Nightswimming.

Common Buzzard

House Martin on the nest.

Coal Tit

Female Sparrowhawk

Common Buzzard

Sedge Warbler

Kingfisher

Whooper Swans

Hooded Crow

Snakes Head Fritillary

Common Buzzard

Caterpillar of the Grey Dagger Moth

Goldcrest

Starling

Green Veined White Butterfly in mid-flight.

Orange Tip Butterfly

7 Spot Ladybird

Grey Heron

European Robin

Wind Turbines

Sunset

Azure Damselfly

Pippistrelle Bats and full Moon

Red Deer Stag

Red Crested Pochard

Water Boatman

Irish Hares

Blue Tit

Mute Swans.

Bullfinch (female)

Ring Necked Pheasant

Ring Necked Pheasant (female)

Red Deer Stag

Willow Warbler

Mute Swan in flight.

Grey Heron in flight

Red Fox

Rook

Hairy Dragonfly

Hawthorn Shield Bug

DC (19351)

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Great Crested Grebe on the Nest

Mute Swan
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Lough Oughter Castle, County Cavan, Ireland
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Gaussima silk produced by young spiders on pasture.
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Orb Web Spider
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Cinnabar Moth
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Common Field Grasshopper.

Red Fox.

Female Kingfisher
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Sunset
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Grey Heron stalking fish.

Spear Thistle
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Flock of Starlings.
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Woodpigeon.
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Willow Warbler
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White Water Lily.
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Swallow in mid-flight.
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Elephant Hawk Moth.
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A Garden Spider waits in it's web.
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Oak Leaf
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Lunar Eclipse.
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Sunset.

Rooks building their nest.

Bluebells.

Irish Hare

Common Buzzard (Juvenile)

Swallows in flight. (multi layered composite image)

Drumlane Abbey In Winter, Milltown, County Cavan, Ireland.

Robin in Winter.

Dunnock or Hedge Sparrow

Irish hare
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Red Squirrel
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Bluebells (zoomed exposure)

Blue Tit in mid flight.

Autumnal red oak Leaves on water.

Ring Necked Pheasant

Peacock Butterfly

Pine Marten.

Green Veined White Butterfly on a dandelion seed head.

Four Spotted Chaser Dragonfly in flight.

DC (13072)e

Brown Hawker Dragonfly.

Swallows compete for a feather caught on the breeze.

Coal Tit

Cockchafer Beetle or May Bug

Wren in an Orange Blossom tree.

Mute Swan Family, County Cavan, Ireland, Planet Earth.

Buff Tip Moth Caterpillar

Bumblebee collage

Badger

Emerald Damselfly

Red Admiral Butterfly

Orb Web Spider

Orb Web Spider.

Starling

European Badger

Greater Black Backed Gull

Meadow Pipit

European Badger

European Badger

Pine Marten foraging in woodland.

Pale Tussock Moth

Blackbird in an Apple Orchard

The Devil's Coachhorse Beetle
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Great Water Diving Beetle
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Mating Damselfies
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Common Field Grasshopper.
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Small Tortoiseshell Butterfly
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Green Caterpillar
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Kingfisher with a fish in it's beak.

A Kingfisher waits....
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Grey Heron taking flight.
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Grey Heron.

Grand Fir
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Common Snipe
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Woodland Ferns and Oak leaves.
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Fieldfare

Peacock Butterfly

Four Spotted Chaser Dragonfly.

Common Buzzard. (Juvenile)

Drumlane Abbey In Winter, Milltown, County Cavan, Ireland.

Robin in Winter.

Mute Swan Family

Kingfisher

Blue Tit

Irish Hares

Kittiwake in flight

Cuckoo (male)
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Bullfinch (Male)

Blue Tit taking flight from a perch.

A roost of juvenile Brown Long Eared Bats

Male and Female Ring Necked Pheasant

Four Spotted Chaser Dragonfly

Peacock Butterfly

Feathered Thorn Moth (Colotois pennaria) and a mighty Oak Tree.

Banded Demoiselle Damselfly

Four Spotted Chaser Dragonfly in flight.

House Martin in flight

Green Veined White Butterfly in flight.

Female Sparrowhawk at a kill

Emperor Moth

Wren foraging for insects.

Badger

Pine Marten

Buzzard pair

Forestry reflection.

A species from the bacchini family of hoverflies

Red Admiral Butterfly

European Badgers

European Badger

Greater Black Backed Gull

Gold Spot Moth

Hawthorn Shield Bug

European Badger

Red Breasted Goose
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Hedgehog
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Wood Louse
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Male Greenfinch
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Alderfly
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The Sun Fly or Hoverfly
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Kingfisher just after catching a small perch.
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Hawthorn Shield Bug.
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Common Darter Dragonfly
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Male Blackbird.

Rooks building their nest.

Willow Warbler silhouette

Hairy Dragonfly (male)

Long Tailed Tit

Bullfinch (male)

Siskin (female)

Irish Hares

Buzzard pair. (multi layered composite image)

Fulmars
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Snowdrops

Male Bullfinch feeding on a hedgerow leaf buds.

Red Fox

Dragonfly Nymph skin post emergence.

Bumblebee nectar feeding.

Compound Eyes of a Horse Fly

Poplar Hawk-moth.

Speckled Wood Butterfly in flight.

Female Sparrowhawk at a kill

Moonlit Lake

Orange Tip Butterflies

Pippistrelle Bat

Four Spotted Chaser Dragonfly approach flight.

Herb Robert close-up

Common Hawker Dragonfly

Deciduous woodland

Daddy Long Legs Spider

Red Admiral Butterfly

Badger mother and cub.

European Badgers

Oak Eggar Moth.
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Wood Louse
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Male Greenfinch
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Clogh Oughter Castle, County Cavan, Ireland
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Green Spider
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The Sunfly or Hoverfly.
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Green Veined White Butterfly.
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Kingfisher with a small perch in it's beak.
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Kingfisher.

The Moon
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Hawthorn Shield Bug.
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Dipper
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Mute Swans in flight.
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Heather or Ling

Pipistrelle Bat in flight.

Robin in Winter.

Irish Hare

Gannet in flight

Cuckoo (male)
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Rook

Mosquitos in flight.

Four Spotted Chaser Dragonfly emerging from Nymph skin

Sedge Warbler

Speckled Wood Butterfly in flight.

Caterpillar of the Buff Tip Moth

Bullfinch (male)

Pippistrelle Bat

Hairy Dragonfly

Common Hawker Dragonfly

Deciduous woodland

Azure Damselfly.

Goldcrest

Badger mother and cub.

European Badger grooming

Common Buzzard

Common Darter Dragonfly

Robin

Round Tower at the Rock of Cashel, County Tipperary, Ireland.

Orange Tip Butterfly
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Common Darter Dragonfly

Small Tortoiseshell Butterfly
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Kingfisher scratching itself.

Dunnock or Hedge Sparrow.
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Female Siskin.
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Pied Wagtail collecting nesting material.
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Barn Swallow in flight.
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Common Hawker Dragonfly in flight.

Orange Tip Butterfly

Mute Swans

Pipistrelle Bat in flight.

Pheasant (male)

Gannet taking flight
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Blue Tit (silhouette)

Woodpigeon in flight.

Badger

Hedgehog

Blue Tit

Coal Tit in flight

Barn Swallow approacing nest

Brown Hawker Dragonfly

Deciduous woodland

Azure Damselfly hunting midge flies.

Badger mother and cub.

European Badger

European Badgers

Common Wasp
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Hedgehog
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Emerald Damselfly

Red Deer Stag
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Kingfisher about to swallow a small perch.
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Kingfisher

Feral Pigeon
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Female Siskin taking flight.

Collared Dove

Cuckoo Flower

Pine Marten

Irish Hare

A brood mare wanders through a wind-tossed meadow

House Martin in flight.

Mute Swan Family, County Cavan, Ireland, Planet Earth.

Hedgehog

Beech Tree

Coal Tit in flight

Common Darter Dragonfly

Lapwing pair

Wood Pigeon

White Ermine Moth
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Kingfisher swallowing a small perch.

Bufflehead Drake.
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Woodpigeon
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Swallow in mid flight.

Pheasant (male)

Gannet in flight.

Buzzard in flight.

Irish Hare

Mute Swan Family, County Cavan, Ireland, Planet Earth.

Woodlice.

Red Squirrel

American MInk

Lapwing pair

European Badger

Mallard Drake
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Kingfisher
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Garden Spider spinning a web.
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Red Deer Stag
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Kingfisher

Forestry Plantation.
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Male Siskin.
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The Coal Tit.

Kingfisher

Red Fox

Marestail

Giant Redwood

Common Hawker Dragonfly

Black Headed Gull taking flight

Wren silhouette.

European Badger

Male Bullfinch Preening

Church Belltower, Lough Key, County Roscommon, Ireland
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Orange Tip Butterfly
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Red Ant
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Kingfisher displaying threat posture.
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Blue Tit

Four Spotted Chaser Dragonfly in flight about to land on a Rush stalk.

Red Fox

Four Spotted Chaser Dragonfly nymph skin

Poplar Hawkmoth

Black Headed Gull taking flight

Common Buzzard in attack mode.

European Badgers

Green Caterpillar

Mallard Duck preening
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Stone Circle and Grave, Loughcrew, County Meath, Ireland
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Kingfisher catching small roach.
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Female Kingfisher
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Cock Pheasant

Irish Hare on the run.

Ring Necked Pheasant

Red Squirrel

Black Headed Gull taking flight

Black Slug.

European Badger
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Kingfisher
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Kingfisher
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Coal Tit.

Blue Damselfly feeding on a mosquito.

Ring Necked Pheasant (females)

Pine Marten

Red Squirrel

Grey Heron in flight.

Reed Bunting juvenile
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Garden Spider
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Kingfisher

Mallard Drake
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Red Deer Stag
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Kingfisher

Hedgehog

Early Thorn Moth

Lough Oughter Castle, County Cavan, Ireland

Poplar Hawk Moth
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Rhinoceros Beetle

The Dor Beetle
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The Painted Lady Butterfly
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A kingfisher preening it's feathers.

Deciduous Woodland.
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Whirligig Beetles.

Drumlane Abbey, Milltown, County Cavan, Ireland.

Red Fox

Fighting Swallows

Grey Heron Taking flight.

Bumblebee approaching a Vetch flower

Four Spotted Chaser Dragonfly approach flight.

Blue Tit in flight
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Weevil

Wren
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Kingfisher preening it's feathers.
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Cock Pheasant crowing.

Red Fox

Peacock Butterfly and wasp on rotting autumn fruit.

Soft Shield Fern

Four Spotted Chaser Dragonfly

Male Siskin

Black Snake Millipede

Red Deer Stag
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Kingfisher preening it's feathers.
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Cock Pheasant

Lough Oughter Castle, County Cavan, Ireland.

Spotted Orchids

Goldfinch

Greylag Geese
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Crescent moon at dusk.

Castle Island, Lough Key Forest Park, Co. Roscommon, Ireland.
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Barnacle Geese in flight.

Four Spotted Chaser Dragonfly

Coal Tit

Moth on a TV screen
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Bumblebee flying away after collecting nectar from a field rose.

Ruined Church, Lough Key Forest Park, County Roscommon, Ireland.
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Flock of Barnacle Geese in flight.
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Cock and Hen Pheasant.

Irish Hare

Long Eared Owl Chick

Male Greenfinch

Silver Y Moth
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Stranded Sperm Whale

Great Crested Grebe

Sawfly larva

Irish Hare

Brown Hawker Dragonfly

Four-spotted Chaser Dragonfly

Fieldfare.

Irish Hare.

Common Buzzard on a kill

Small Copper Butterfly

Twilight on Derryhoo Lake, County Cavan, Ireland

The Small Tortoiseshell Butterfly
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Hen Pheasant.

Drumlane Abbey, County Cavan, Ireland

The Ringlet Butterfly
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Red Deer Stag
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Hen Pheasant preening her feathers.

Four Spotted Chaser Dragonfly

Drumlane Abbey, County Cavan, Ireland

Brown Long Eared Bat roost

Cuckoo Bee

Drumlane Abbey, County Cavan, Ireland
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Red Deer Stag

Grey Heron

Railway Track

Peacock Butterfly
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Hooded Crow
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Rain shower on a summer meadow.

Greylag Goose

Bumblebee flying into it's nesting chamber.
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The Ink Cap Fungus

Irish Hare Leveret

Mute Swan silhouettes.
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Cock Pheasant crowing.

Pine Marten

Wren in full song

Red Fox
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Cock pheasant crowing and beating it's wings.

Mayfly, seconds after emerging from it's larval skin.

House Mice
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Cock Pheasant Beating it's wings.

Glencar Waterfall, County Sligo.

Juvenile Black Headed Gull

Blackberries.

Grey Heron silhouette and reflection

Red Squirrel

Grey Heron
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Cock Pheasant beating it's wings.

Woodland Jay

Red Squirrel
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Cock Pheasant.

Robin in full song

East Window of Drumlane Abbey, County Cavan, Ireland

Male Greenfinch
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Hooded Crow.

Raindrop Splash
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Cock Pheasant.

Raindrop Splash
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Magpie.

Ragwort Flower

Unfurling Fern
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Magpie.

A woodland trail in spring
