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Cepaea hortensis) - Brown (or white) lipped snail photographed beside Cahercommaun stone fort, the Burren, Co. Clare, Ireland

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Hag's Head, at the Cliffs of Moher, Clare, Ireland, originally uploaded by blather.
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Hag's Head, at the Cliffs of Moher, Clare, Ireland, 200m high cliffs on the Atlantic coast. This photograph was taken below the cliff top, from the sea looking in, towards land. The only manipulation in this image is to separate the exposure of the sky from that of the rocks. Which makes it a helluva lot scarier.

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Me on the Cliffs of Moher this morning, originally uploaded by blather.

Me on the Cliffs of Moher this morning.Photo by Damien

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Raven (corvus corax) at Hag's Head on the Cliffs of Moher, originally uploaded by blather.

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Raven (corvus corax) at Hag's Head on the Cliffs of Moher, Co. Clare, Ireland. We had just seen ravens fighting with four choughs (a red-bill coastal crow, like a small raven) in a fantastically acrobatic dogfight.

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Damien at the Cliffs of Moher, this morning, originally uploaded by blather.

Ye have to be up early to catch the like of us.

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Cahercommaun Stone Cliff Fort, The Burren, originally uploaded by blather.

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Perched on a high cliff inland in the Burren, Co. Clare, this early medieval stone fort has an atmosphere all of its own...

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Dawn Raid: Raven diving from the Cliffs of Moher, this morning, originally uploaded by blather. Get high resolution version »

Raven (corvus corax) diving from the Cliffs of Moher, near Hag's Head, Co. Clare, Ireland. Ravens are possibly my favourite bird.

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At the Bridges of Ross, Loop Head, Co. Clare, originally uploaded by blather. Get high resolution version »

2nd January 2006 - the brooding sky and sea, at the Bridges of Ross

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Irish Mountain Hare, near Hag's Head, Cliffs of Moher, originally uploaded by blather.

Irish Mountain Hare, Lepus Timidis Hibernicus. The Mountain Hare is largely adapted to polar and mountainous habitats. It is distributed from Fennoscandia to eastern Siberia; in addition there are isolated populations in the Alps, Ireland, Poland, United Kingdom and Hokkaido. some scientists believe that the Irish Hare should be regarded as a separate species.

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Hell River, originally uploaded by blather.

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Sign for Hell River, on the R352, Tulla, Co. Clare, Ireland. Weird on this - I've yet been able to find out why it's called "Hell River"! Is this Chronos driving a cattle truck full of dead folk?
Abhainn Ifrinn does literally translate as "river hell", so there's no mistakes of anglicisation - I shall enquire further.

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Duck, abandoned, originally uploaded by blather.

Toy duck hanging upside down in a tree beside the river Slaney, Wexford

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Failte Isteach, originally uploaded by blather.

Warning, no trespassers, private property, no dogs - Sign near Hags Head at the Cliffs of Moher. Visitors are instead syphoned through an expensive car parking system to see a less interesting part of the cliffs

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Our limbs intertwined, originally uploaded by blather.

Iris stalk, not yet in flower. I shot it at 400mm telephoto, with the light behind it - hence the halo around each leaf....

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Reaching skywards, originally uploaded by blather.

Iris stalk, not yet in flower. I shot it at 400mm telephoto, with the light behind it - hence the halo around each leaf....

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Ok, now you've gotten me mad..., originally uploaded by blather.

Erithacus rubecula - European Robin. Photographed in my parent's garden near Wexford town, in Ireland. He's got his crest up - despite their size and cute reputation, they're fiercly territorial, and will even try and kill each other!



I shot this from a hide I made in my car, and used a 30D and 100-400 Canon L Series Lens (USM) with my 30D. It's not cropped.

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Photographed in Hyde Park, Sydney, Australia. These birds look like a mixture of a heron and one of HR Giger's Alien nightmares. They're ubiquitious in Australian urban spaces, but it takes a tourist to take notice...

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