Alison Laredo

Award-winning freelance photographer and chronicler of life in pictures in the West of Ireland and beyond...........

[Butterfly Conservation 🦋 @savebutterflies]

A new study, led by @RSPBScience, has found that increased use of pesticides and fertiliser is driving bird population declines across the UK and Europe 👉 https://t.co/6l20Wfr9Qv

It’s the latest evidence of the harm pesticides are having on our natural environment. 🧵 (1/8)

[Mayo Mental Health Association @mayomha]

TURLOUGH 8K 2023 🏃‍♂️🏃‍♀️

Thank you so much to everyone who turned out on the morning 💚

Photo album is across on our FB page should you feel like stealing/printing any 😉
📸 credit: @AlisonLaredo

Music:Run Like Us, Musician:Got Jax, Album:Got Jax, Source:VCG

[Mike Hudema @MikeHudema]

This is the seamstress of the bird world…

Nature is incredible. Protect it.

#ActOnClimate #climate #energy #rewilding #birds

[Hedgehog Society @hedgehogsociety]

🚨 🚨 🚨 🚨 Let's make this viral - hedgehogs are dying of dehydration - please please share this post and offer some shallow bowls of water for wildlife (pop a few pebbles in to make sure insects that fall in can escape) 🦔 💧

🎥 Paul Bunyard

[Culture Works @cultureworksie]

A magical night on the eve of Bealtaine at Turlough Park, as we celebrated the changing seasons, the coming of summer and the FOLKLIFE collection at the
@NMIreland - Country Life.

#MayoFaoinSpéir
@artscouncil_ie @MayoArtsOffice @NMIreland @LinenhallMayo

📷@AlisonLaredo

[Connaught Telegraph @thecontel]

Historical re-enactment in Newport to mark 300-year celebrations
https://t.co/K76Lv7Wmcb

[Culture Works @cultureworksie]

Art of the Word
Performances by Poets Terry McDonagh, Ger Reidy, Geraldine Mitchell, Sasha Terfous and Nithy Kasa. Musicians piper Diarmuid Moynihan, Tony Reidy, harpist Laoise Kelly and drummers Robbie Harris, John O’ Clochartaigh & Raphael Dziubinski.

📷@AlisonLaredo

[Little Green Space 🦋 @LGSpace]

We're losing wildlife - including bees, frogs, butterflies, hedgehogs, badgers, moths, bats, insects and birds. If you are lucky enough to have your own garden, or if you manage one in a public space, please make it wildlife-friendly 🐝

[Alison Laredo @AlisonLaredo]

Coltsfoot clocks in my wild-ish garden
#wildflowerhour

[Alison Laredo @AlisonLaredo]

@ceeceeclaudia @womensart1 Jo Spence was a working class woman who, among other things, photographed her journey with breast cancer. To me she is saying that a class society harms working class people, literally making them sick.

[Little Green Space 🦋 @LGSpace]

Dear councils, Can you help give pollinators like bees and butterflies a chance? 97% of UK meadows are gone. So this year, please don't over-mow wildflowers on roadverges and in public spaces and don't spray them with weedkiller - let them grow instead 🐝

[Little Green Space 🦋 @LGSpace]

Please say no to poisonous slug pellets, pesticides and weedkillers. Hedgehogs hoover up over 100 invertebrates every night!
#wildlife #gardening #nature

[Corncrake/Traonach LIFE @CorncrakeLife]

Farmers of Donegal, Mayo and Galway

WE NEED YOU!!!

Many framers might have nettles growing in old farmyard manure near sheds or buildings.

We will happily transplant them for you and create cover for corncrakes.

Get in touch with us and please give a RT twitter 😀

[Alison Laredo @AlisonLaredo]

@GlengarriffWood @HerpSocIreland I live in Mayo and there are still tadpoles in my pond. Some have back legs and some don't. Most of their siblings left in July/ August as froglets but there are a good few still tadpoles.

[BirdWatch Ireland @BirdWatchIE]

** EXTREMELY IMPORTANT** to report any sick or dead waterbirds or birds of prey to @agriculture_ie via the link below, as soon as you can, if you see any this weekend. More reports coming in from around the country unfortunately. Please share!

https://t.co/c5THMTCdC9

[WildlifeKate @katemacrae]

A dog crate can be an easy way to keep the larger birds off of the feeders, creating a safe space for the smaller birds. Placing some feeders close to the edge means species such as the woodpecker can still reach the food. It's working well at #YewView

[Little Green Space 🦋 @LGSpace]

A wildlife-friendly garden idea to help mini-beasts, amphibians, and pollinators like bees, hoverflies, moths and butterflies! A gabion wall full of reused materials which offer shelter, and that can be planted up with native wildflowers and nectar-rich shrubs. Pic via @seed_ball

[Alison Laredo @AlisonLaredo]

@OMGitsagirl2015 Thanks Alan

[Alison Laredo @AlisonLaredo]

Reflections on a beach in #northmayo #lovemayo #westofireland

[Alison Laredo @AlisonLaredo]

@magnumlady Thanks Val, North Mayo is a real treasure in Ireland