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Luke

@CaperTeach

Donegal based primary teacher | Big interest in 🌱 and 🌎 | Often 🚴

 Dún na nGall
Joined September 2015
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Deer capers at night can be the spookiest. Happy Halloween, welcome to the rut 🦌🌚
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Only three legs and still top dog 👑
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Plenty of exploring to do 🗺️🍁 @Glenveagh_NP
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Put a wildlife camera out on the farm in West Donegal over winter to see what's out there. And the winner is.... masses of 🦌.. 🧵
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The fox is the busiest lad on the farm, out almost every night following exactly the same paths to mark out his territory (4/5)
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Nice also to have spotted a pine marten and any amount of speedy iora rua and fieldmice in the woods. No grey squirrels this side of the Gweebarra (5/5)
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Big Sky dawn/dusk commutes through the Bluestack Mountains are hard to beat❄️
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Image from Luke (@CaperTeach)
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Image from Luke (@CaperTeach)
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The greens, golds, teals, purples and browns of regenerating conifers, hollies, willows, rowans and birches backed by an ancient oak wood at dusk in West Donegal today🍂
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Us in 🇮🇪 can learn from 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 who can learn from 🇳🇴 on this one. There's a simplicity to it.
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Brilliant week in @GlenveaghPark with the Bridge House Education Centre conducting water habitat surveys, bog studies, learning about the ancient woodlands and invasive species management 🧵 – at Donegal, Ireland
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Electrofishing traps revealed some population of juvenile salmon and eel above Lough Veagh. Fish counters are helping Inland Fisheries monitor populations. Salmon runs this year were up on previous years. River pollution from intensification and warming seas biggest challenges... – at Donegal, Ireland
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The surrounding blanket bogs in the Derryveagh Mountains are among the most extensive in Ireland. Small scale turf cutting continues within the park and large areas show signs of harvesting in the past. These pools were teeming with life in the heat. (End) – at Donegal, Ireland
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Down at a local pub: 3 types of stout on tap, shorts if you're feeling it and then shots of Gaviscon for anyone feeling queasy. Ballyshannon, Co. Donegal
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Natural regeneration of a clear-felled @coilltenews plantation in Donegal. It's less than 20 years since this valley was full of sitka spruce and lodgepole pine. Now it's thick with willow, holly and emergent oak... (🧵/1)
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Natural regeneration of a clear-felled @coilltenews plantation in Donegal. It's less than 20 years since this valley was full of sitka spruce and lodgepole pine. Now it's thick with willow, holly and emergent oak... (🧵/1)
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Since the felling, old ruins of houses hidden for generations are emerging from the trees. These are the houses of the 6 tenant families of the valley who were given tickets to America by the landlord in order to free up the land for forestry over 100 years ago (🧵/7)
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Before those families ever lived here, before they were evicted or the plantations put in to replace them, these spindly oaks were growing in this valley. Given a chance, they will re-colonise the newly cleared ground once again (🧵/8)
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