Peadar Guy

Lover of wild flowers and plants, tree hugger, searcher of bogs and wild places. All original pics copyright to me.

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Lots of Broad-leaved Helleborine in woodland near Tandragee Co. Armagh today, including one lacking chlorophyll. I learned last year this variant is now known as var. monotropoides. There were two but one was eaten back to the stem. @ukorchids @BSBI_Ireland

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@Botany2021 That's really good to know. Thanks.

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Fragrant Orchid (subsp. conopsea I think). Thought I'd have to go out west to see these beauties but found them on a little scrap of grassed over quarry spoil in north Armagh -almost read to pop. Delighted!

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@SimonGray14 @UlsterWildlife @BCNI_ @savebutterflies @BfliesMothsNI Super photo Simon.

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Phone pic of a Common Blue near Portadown Co. Armagh today. Very windy here so this little one was holding on tight.

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Irish Damselfly at RSPB Montiaghs Moss Reserve Co. Antrim. @RSPBNI

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Wood Sorrel and Early Purple Orchid from a recent visit to Clare Glen Co. Armagh. Absolutely favourite time of the year.

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Despite the cool windy weather, I managed to find Green Hairstreak in good numbers last week near Portadown Co. Armagh.

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@PaddyTobin5 @BSBI_Ireland That's great Paddy. As I wasn't properly kitted out I had to stay on the track. Good to know there were a few more there.

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First orchids of 2024 for me. Early Purple orchid in the hedgerow along the Waterford Greenway Co. Waterford @BSBI_Ireland . Record shot only as a drainage ditch prevented closer inspection.

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A perfectly positioned Wild Strawberry on the stony bed of a disused rail track. Waterford Greenway Co. Waterford.

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@ray_rambling @BBSbryology @BSBIbotany @WoodlandTrust @s4r4h_l Very helpful- thanks. I initially mistook Shining Hookeria for a Scalewort but some of the features didn't match. Your tweet helped me nail it. Found in a very steep wooded gorge near Tandragee Co. Armagh.

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Wood Anemones popping up in Tandragee Co Armagh today. Just a few for now but enough to encourage a woodlander wanderer.

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Looks like Black Bulgar (Bulgaria inquinans) . Fairly chunky with a rubbery consistency. Would be a first for me so confirmation welcome @ViciousCheese and all twitter friends, if poss. On dead oak Craigavon City park at the weekend.

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False Puffball slime mould (Reticularia lycoperdon) on dead alder. Bog woodland near Portadown Co. Armagh.

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@donnarainey4 Super find Donna!

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First ever @BSBIbotany #NewYearPlantHunt this morning. Nine plants in flower incl. Common Whitlowgrass and Lesser Celandine. The earliest I've ever recorded LC in flower and a nice way to kick off the new year.

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Wall-rue (Asplenium ruta-muraria) adding a touch of colour to a grey stone wall. Kilmore Co. Armagh

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Twitter world, could this possibly be Silky Pinkgill Entoloma sericeum var.sericeum or am I barking up the wrong mycological tree? Found along a grassy pathway in bog woodland. Brackagh Co. Armagh.

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@marja_photo Superb!