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Lough Erne: Breeding #curlews return to Trasna Island
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cd1rnlmndy0o

"The warbling call of the #curlew has returned to #TrasnaIsland in Lower #LoughErne. Conservationists are celebrating the first successful breeding #birds on the island in living memory... they worked to restore habitat to support the return of vulnerable species including the curlew, along with the #lapwing, #snipe and #redshank."

A mute swan for a silent Sunday. #SilentSunday #Fermanagh #LoughErne #Peace

"Ye wouldn't be long gettin' the ankles frostbit off ye". #LoughErne #Frrmanagh

#SilentSunday #Fermanagh #LoughErne

#SilentSunday #Fermanagh #LoughErne #peace

Good morning. #Fermanagh #LoughErne #Peace

#SilentSumday #Fermanagh #LoughErne

Good night from #LoughErne #Fermanagh

A break in the clouds. #SilentSunday #LoughErne #Fermanagh

Forget-me-not on the shore of Lough Erne. #BloomScrolling #WildFlowers #ForgetMeNot #Fermanagh #LoughErne

A Mute Swan in reeds on the shore of Lough Erne. #LoughErne #Fermanagh #Swan

The ruins of the priory church on Devenish Island. #SilentSunday #Fermanagh #LoughErne #DevenishIsland

The flower cluster of the branched bur-reed #WildFlowers #BloomScrolling #LoughErne #Fermanagh

Marsh Woundwort flowering on the shore of Lough Erne. #Fermanagh #LoughErne #WildFlowers #BloomScrolling

#Celtic #MythologyMonday: `Lough Erne has two origin stories, both very different, but which concern drownings. In one version, High King of #Ireland, Fiacha Labrainne (who himself was named after the River Labrainn, which burst its banks when he was born) went to war against a tribe of people who were known as the Érainn. I don't know what their quarrel was, but seemingly Nature was on Fiacha's side, for during the battle a huge torrent of water burst from the ground, drowning all the King's enemy warriors, and leaving in its wake the body of water we know today as #LoughErne.`
Source: Ali Isaac

#SilentSunday #LoughErne #Fermanagh

Good night from #LoughErne #Fermanagh

In full flight
In volle vlucht

#Heron #birdsofmastodon #birdphotography #birds #naturephotography #Nature #Ireland #Lake #LoughErne

For #StandingStoneSunday , here’s the two-sided Dreenan Figure or Janus Stone in Caldragh Cemetery on #BoaIsland in #LoughErne , #Fermanagh . I took these snaps on a very wet day in early January 2016.

More information about the figure and his shorter comrade and neighbour, the Lustymore Man, is here: https://www.tuatha.ie/boa-island/

Got to go out a do some fishing yesterday. I am starting with setting the mood as #Fermanagh on Upper #LoughErne was magical. I will send the fishy pictures later (yes of course fish were caught!).