Éanna Ní Lamhna on a clean bill of health for a fulmar, a spider close up, and a troubling abundance of jellyfish at Kilkeel
Éanna Ní Lamhna on a clean bill of health for a fulmar, a spider close up, and a troubling abundance of jellyfish at KilkeeA neighbour and I were surprised to see a green moth on my front door. I had never noticed a green one before. Google suggests it is a common emerald moth.Fulmar. Photograph supplied by Sean Mac Giolla Deacair
This gull looks like a beaten docket. I saw it in the sea off the coast near Teelin, Co Donegal. Will its bill recover?It is not a gull at all but a fulmar – known locally in that Gaeltacht area as Joe Cac na bFhaoileog. While the locals are right about the foul, evil-smelling liquid that it ejects at would-be predators, this in fact comes from its mouth.
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