Alex Ní H-Éideáin

Environmental Consultant 🐝 Eco-warrior 🌻
MSc(Agr) Environmental Resource Management (UCD)

[Alex Ní H-Éideáin @aliialex_]

One of my nearest and dearest, @Bealtaine6, is looking for participants for the important work she's doing. If you or someone you know may be interested in participating, please do get in thouch with her!

[Alex Ní H-Éideáin @aliialex_]

Thrilled to see one of my favourite projects and species getting much needed attention!

[10ThingstoKnowAbout @10Things_ToKnow]

🐝Buzzing to be(e) in Belmullet on the hunt for Ireland’s rarest bumblebees, the Great Yellow Bumblebee @GYB_Project and seeing researchers, farmers and local communities working together for the #conservation cause!🌻🐝🐞 @KathrionaDev @LydiaBThompson @KarinaEcology @DaraStanley @EithneDavis
@NewDecadeFilms @teagasc @MetEireann @scienceirel @EPAIreland @hea_irl @IrishResearch @MarineInst @BordIascMhara @ucddublin @UCD_Research
#LoveIrishResearch #NationalChallengeFund #10thingstoknowabout #GYB

[Alex Ní H-Éideáin @aliialex_]

Where have all Britain’s garden butterflies gone?
https://t.co/u7o9LIxS1c

[Alex Ní H-Éideáin @aliialex_]

I just signed this #petition calling on this #government to end all unnecessary #herbicide use in #Ireland. Will you sign too? https://t.co/kIoQFVpzuc via @UpliftIRL

[Alex Ní H-Éideáin @aliialex_]

In contrast to last week's disappointment after no confirmed sightings of a Great Yellow Bumblebee on the Mullet Peninsula, I was thrilled to record a Red-shanked Carder Bee (Bombus ruderarius) just before the weather packed it in!

#bumblebees #rarespecies #pollinators

[Alex Ní H-Éideáin @aliialex_]

Look at those purple #pollen baskets! Well spotted @gemma0connor 👏🏼

#pollinators #bumblebees #bumbog #ecology #biodiversity #environment

[Gemma O'Connor @gemma0connor]

Purple pollen baskets on this queen red tail. Apologies for crappy phone photo. Lots of scabious out on the ditch too in addition to wild thyme.
⁦@GYB_Project⁩ ⁦@CorncrakeLife⁩

[Alex Ní H-Éideáin @aliialex_]

@BSBI_Ireland? 👀

[Alex Ní H-Éideáin @aliialex_]

Yesterday, I spent my birthday
doing #fieldwork with @KarinaEcology and we spent some time (off-site) looking for #Petalwort. Reviewing the photos I'm not sure we found it! Any ideas anyone? @Bryophyte_World?

#botany #liverwort #plantidentifcation

[Alex Ní H-Éideáin @aliialex_]

Absolutely love this poem about bumblebees, their needs and the challenges they face today! More campaigning like this please!

[Bumblebee Conservation Trust @BumblebeeTrust]

'Imagine a world where bumblebees could vote'

Our poem for #RestoreNatureNow, superbly performed by author and staff member Darryl accompanied by his young son.

We think it went down well with the crowd!

@RNNMarch

[Alex Ní H-Éideáin @aliialex_]

Well done @MargaretTallott on representing the @GYB_Project at the @eucapnetwork workshop on ‘Promoting #pollinator-friendly #farming’ in Slovenia this week! Looking forward to hearing all about it!

[Great Yellow Bumblebee Project @GYB_Project]

Delighted that @MargaretTallott from our working group was able to attend this on our behalf. She's come home with lots of ideas. Many thanks to all the organisers.

[Alex Ní H-Éideáin @aliialex_]

Not a day for #pollinator #surveys on Mullet today! At least I didn't have to go out to confirm it myself. Instead I spent the afternoon with @gemma0connor, working on #GIS! Thanks for the confirmation photo, the good company, and delicious dinner Gemma!

[Alex Ní H-Éideáin @aliialex_]

It was a bit on the windy side, but I couldn't help but feel their absence since I've seen them out in similar conditions on the Mullet before!

The frightening reality of climate change at play, I fear..

[Alex Ní H-Éideáin @aliialex_]

Some beautiful #flowers recorded while #monitoring #pollinators for @LIFEonMachair today. Bit disappointed by the low abundance of #bees though!

[Alex Ní H-Éideáin @aliialex_]

Hiding in #hedgerows, waiting for the rain to pass...

#Ecology #AppropriateAssessment #AAScreening #IrishWeather

[Alex Ní H-Éideáin @aliialex_]

A weather enforced #deskwork day!

The printer at home has given up the ghost so in preparation for my site visit tomorrow I went to my #local #library to print of some materials. The staff are helpful and friendly, but the computers are painfully slow...

[Great Yellow Bumblebee Project @GYB_Project]

To get the wonderful bilingual children's book "An Bhumbóg Mhór Bhuí ar Strae - The Great Yellow Bumblebee Goes Astray" written by @MargaretTallott and Katherine Mangan and illustrated by Jean Beard click on link below
https://t.co/HFg938asoe

[Alex Ní H-Éideáin @aliialex_]

First week of #monitoring finished for the @ProjectBog! I can't get over how stunning Killyconny Bog is. The view is breathtaking and the soundtrack of #birds heals the soul 💕

#bumblebees #pollinators #conservation #peatlands #bog #fieldwork #ecology #environment

[Alex Ní H-Éideáin @aliialex_]

An absolutely wild week planned ahead in the run up to our first holiday in.. years!

Will I still be standing by the end of the week? Only one way to find out! 🏃🏼‍♀️💨

#TimeManagement #projectmanagement #AAScreeningReports #environment #worklifebalance

[Alex Ní H-Éideáin @aliialex_]

Really enjoyed the Lynda Huxley's (@Natureofireland) presentation on the red-listed Swift at today's @CIEEMnet Lunchtime chat - very informative and inspiring!

[Great Yellow Bumblebee Project @GYB_Project]

Listen to @RTECountryWide and @ellamcsweeney interview our very own @GYB_Project farmer Joseph Geraghty, and our working group member @DaraStanley about bumblebees and particularly the Great Yellow Bumblebee (roughly at 32.41 minutes in) - https://t.co/Cq4GGUTouw