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Mike Savage

@msavagenw.bsky.social

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Into green infrastructure & wildlife. Bad birder and now a pensioner too. Hoping to spend more time on 2 wheels.

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Mike Savage @msavagenw.bsky.social · 22h

The young ones are like cupcakes :)

Mike Savage @msavagenw.bsky.social · 22h

Lovely to find Fluted Bird’s Nest Fungus in the garden…

View of ground in garden with tiny fungi that look like bird nests with even tinier eggs

View of ground in garden with fungi that look like tiny white chocolate cakes

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Mike Savage @msavagenw.bsky.social · Sep 1

Finally, thanks to PlantNet ID on the fruits, I’ve identified the shrub the bees love as Eucryphia glutinosa - had though it was Xanthoceras for years but Bob Flowerdew put me right…

Mike Savage @msavagenw.bsky.social · Aug 4

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Mike Savage @msavagenw.bsky.social · Jul 5

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Donna Rainey @donnarainey4.bsky.social · Jun 23

When hospital grounds are managed for biodiversity. Dalriada Hospital in Ballycastle. Mowed paths leading walkers around the site through swathes of native wildflowers alive with pollinators. Swifts calling in the sky. Therapy.

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Mike Savage @msavagenw.bsky.social · Jun 20

That’s some going to have tomatoes ready! Weeks off up here in Derry :)

Mike Savage @msavagenw.bsky.social · Jun 16

Gravel driveway as marsh… it is Northern Ireland after all …

Mike Savage @msavagenw.bsky.social · Jun 15

Oops! Bit late but found this Early Purple (?) on our drive… Derry, NI
#WildflowerHour

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Mike Savage @msavagenw.bsky.social · Jun 8

Field Bindweed? At Ballykelly, Northern Ireland #WildflowerHour

Mike Savage @msavagenw.bsky.social · Jun 4

There’s nothing too them under that fluff! Flew out in a flash!

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Mike Savage @msavagenw.bsky.social · Jun 3

One of ours got inside the fatball feeder…

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Mike Savage @msavagenw.bsky.social · Jun 1

#WildflowerHour I’ve not seen this before - bare ground around some of the Yellow Rattle in our minimeadow - because of the dry May? #DontMowLetItGrow

Mike Savage @msavagenw.bsky.social · May 28

Nettle Rust in my Derry garden - first time I’ve seen it…

A red/orange, doughnut-shaped growth on a nettle, about 5cm across

Mike Savage @msavagenw.bsky.social · May 27

Odd bald Blackbird in St Columb’s Park this morning…

Mike Savage @msavagenw.bsky.social · May 25

Not seen a display of lilies quite like this before… naturalised near the Slievemore graveyard in Achill, Co Mayo #WildflowerHour

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Mike Savage @msavagenw.bsky.social · May 11

Slightly blurry but we have a flower on the Yellow Rattle in the minimeadow #WildflowerHour

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Mike Savage @msavagenw.bsky.social · May 9

Hoping I haven’t been fooled by this good weather but have set up the tomatoes, cucumbers and aubergines a bit earlier than usual…
Can always fleece them if frosts are forecast…