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Sea Heart urchin shell (Echinocardium cordatum) close up.
County Clare, Ireland.

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A waterfall battling strong updrafts as it drops down the Cliffs of Moher.
County Clare, Ireland.

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Solitary Rugose Coral fossils - remains of the tropical seabed that once covered this area over 300 million years ago.
County Donegal, Ireland.

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Gina's lovely muzzle.🫏❤️
County Clare, Ireland.

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Sea spray being pushed over the Cliffs into the fields on top, as the waterfall, to the left, returns it to the sea.
County Clare, Ireland.

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Sound on 🔊
The sound of gentle swells pouring over rocks on the incoming tide.
County Clare, Ireland.

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Poulnabrone dolmen casting shadows under the late Autumn sun. Built between 5,000 and 6,000 years ago by some of our earliest farming people.
County Clare, Ireland.

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A Solitary Rugose Coral fossil protruding from it's sedimentary bed.
County Donegal, Ireland.

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A full rainbow, framing a shadowy Sliabh Liag in the distance.
County Donegal, Ireland.

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A fossilized Bryozoan sea mat from over 300 million years ago and a couple of ones I found growing on some seaweed a few weeks back. Relatively unchanged after all that time!!
County Donegal, Ireland.

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Acorn cups washed downstream and deposited along the high tide line.
County Donegal, Ireland.

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A Solitary Rugose Coral fossil with it's internal structure revealed.
County Donegal, Ireland.

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A calm evening on Teelin pier.
County Donegal, Ireland.

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Goniatite fossils - Ancient relatives of Squid and Octopus that swam in the warm seas that covered this area over 300 million years ago.
County Clare, Ireland.

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Lesser-spotted dogfish (Scyliorhinus canicula) washed up on the beach. One of Ireland’s smallest shark species.
County Clare, Ireland.

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Lesser-spotted dogfish (Scyliorhinus canicula) washed up on the beach. One of Ireland’s smallest shark species.
County Clare, Ireland.

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A Septarian nodule (Fossilized mud bubble).
County Clare, Ireland.

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A peacocks tail of Honey fungus (Armillaria sp.)
County Clare, Ireland.

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A baby seal on the slipway at Teelin pier, awaiting it's mother's return. Sliabh Liag looming in the background.
County Donegal, Ireland.

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Part of a brass door handle or cabinet knob I'm guessing. Battered by rolling stones.
County Clare, Ireland.

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Gina modelling her new Donkey Jacket for the 2025 Autumn/Winter season.
County Clare, Ireland.

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The variety of size and orientation of these Goniatite fossils makes them look like celestial bodies suspended in the darkness of space.
County Clare, Ireland.

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A pair of Painted Topshells (Calliostoma zizyphinum).
County Clare, Ireland.

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Shell fragments in rock crevices - the beautiful remains of a variety of tiny lives.
County Clare, Ireland.

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Common Puffballs (Lycoperdon perlatum) on the forest floor. While I enjoyed kicking them as a child, to see them eject their spores, I didn't know just how pretty they looked up close 😍
County Clare, Ireland.

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Gina and her carer/carrot bearer heading out for a wee walk. Fiadh is up ahead keeping watch.
County Clare, Ireland.

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A Sea-urchin shell, found in a low tide rockpool.

Cleaned of the spines and tube-feet that covered it when it was living, you can see the beautiful details and symmetry of its shell.
County Clare, Ireland.

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Another look at some of the tiny wee, baby Scad (Decapterus macarellus) that washed up on the beach recently.
County Clare, Ireland.

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A Gall growing on a small leaf - not sure of the plant species or what insect/other has caused the Gall. Any ideas or identifications welcome.
County Clare, Ireland.

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A Juvenile Atlantic Horse mackerel or Scad (Decapterus macarellus) washed ashore by growing Ocean swells.
County Clare, Ireland.

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Jaws!!!
A shark shaped hagstone - holes bored in shale layers by Common Piddocks (Pholas dactylus).
County Clare, Ireland.

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Blackthorn berries (Prunus spinosa) or Sloe berries are fully ripened at the moment and scattered all accross the Burren.
County Clare, Ireland.

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Blackthorn berries (Prunus spinosa) or Sloe berries are fully ripened at the moment and scattered all accross the Burren.
County Clare, Ireland.

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Blackthorn berries (Prunus spinosa) or Sloe berries are fully ripened at the moment and scattered all accross the Burren.
County Clare, Ireland.

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Blackthorn berries (Prunus spinosa) or Sloe berries are fully ripened at the moment and scattered all accross the Burren.
County Clare, Ireland.

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A stormy start to Autumn, but soggy country roads don't slow Fiadh down too much 🤣🤣
County Clare, Ireland.

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A Hagstone.
County Donegal, Ireland.

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A Worm pipefish (Nerophis lumbriciformis), caught briefly in a shrimp net before being released.
County Donegal, Ireland.

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A Worm pipefish (Nerophis lumbriciformis), caught briefly in a shrimp net before being released.
County Donegal, Ireland.

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Fiadh, smiling through a Piddock hole on her beach walk.
County Clare, Ireland.

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Stigmaria - this is a fossilized root section of a Lepidodendron "tree" still embedded in the rock.
Over 300 million years ago, this area was covered in forest of these large tree-like plants, related to modern Club mosses.
County Clare, Ireland.

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Pretty pebble - the iron rich circular spots that run through this pebble may have been the spaces that small burrows or roots made back when this was a soft mud over 300 million years ago.
County Clare, Ireland.

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Atlantic Mackerel (Scomber scombrus) and their beautifully patterned backs.
County Clare, Ireland.

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Gold!!

Well, fools gold at least.
Iron pyrite crystals around what I think is a Calcite core that was surrounded by shale.
County Clare, Ireland.

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A piece of a Common Sea-urchin (Echinus esculentus) shell. When alive, each of the small white bumps would have had articulated spines attached - between that and their size, they look like spiky grapefruits 😋
County Donegal, Ireland.

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Marine gastropod tracks - mostly a mix of Topshells, Periwinkles, and Dogwhelks.
County Clare, Ireland.

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A Common Brittlestar (Ophiothrix fragilis) in full flow.
County Clare, Ireland.

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A Common Brittlestar (Ophiothrix fragilis) striking a pose. They always seem to me to be a lively mix between a starfish and a sea-urchin.
County Clare, Ireland.

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Fools Gold (Iron pyrite) glinting in sun.
County Clare, Ireland.

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"Fiddle-heads"
Unfurling ferns in damp shady wooded areas.
County Clare, Ireland.

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