Scientist, conservationist, and working to change my despair to hope for humans and the planet!
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Dara Fitzpatrick retweeted
CABS team just shut down one of the largest illegal songbird trapping sites we’ve ever found in the Alps near Lake Garda, Italy! 🌿
178 snap traps seized, saving 100+ migrating flycatchers a day.
This is what an AI clean up does to one of my images from the last post. Much sharper but has it lost its realism and the hazy atmosphere which is always on the horizon at moon rise?
This moth looks like it’s rusting so it’s fitting its name is Iron Prominent. Cape Clear Island, Co. Cork #moths
Usually, I see Common Blue either with wings closed or fully open so kinda cool to see half and half. #butterflies
Small Elephant Hawkmoth, the rarer diminutive cousin of Elephant Hawkmoth, Crosshaven, Co. Cork #beautifulmoths
Good to see the Sand Martins doing well at Harpers Island Cork. Wish we could do more for Swifts #featherspeech
Dara Fitzpatrick retweeted
Racing 40°C heat and combine harvesters near Cologne, CABS and local farmers have saved 22 endangered Marsh & Montagu's Harrier chicks!
By marking 16 nests, leaving 20x20m uncut zones, and adding electric fences, they’re keeping these birds of prey safe.
Goldfinch by the sea, Myrtleville County Cork. Whimbrel also in off the sea as they travel from Africa to Iceland
Dara Fitzpatrick retweeted
Substantial fine but not max of €250k which shd have been imposed for flagrant breach of law & destruction of hedgerows. Coolmore statement that they werent aware of EIA regs doesnt hold water.Every beneficiary of CAP €€€ receives a booklet with regs.
farmersjournal.ie/news/news/…
A traditional field system (left) packed full of hedgerows and wildlife. Compare them to the field next door (right) which is a virtual desert for wildlife. This shows the effect of losing 6,000 km of hedgerow in Ireland EVERY year!
