Johnny Mac
@johnnythecow.bsky.social
Mid Wales based. Ninety percent human, half Irish, half Mancunian, half pharmaceuticals, two thirds rubbish at fractions. Wildlife, nature, conservation and general nice stuff. www.fragmentsoflight.co.uk
A bird does not sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song. #wagtail #piedwagtail #birds #birdlife #wildlife #nature #westport #bertrastrand #mayo #ireland
Four hundred and thirty million years of the Devil’s Bridge Formation. #geology #silurian #lithostratigraphy #mudstone #ystwythvalley #llanafan #aberystwyth #ceredigion @bgs.ac.uk
Like a bird on the wire, like a drunk in a midnight choir, I have tried, in my way to be free… #birdonthewire #leonardcohen #lyrics #stonechat #birds #birdlife #wildlife #nature #wire #bertrabeach #westport #mayo #ireland
The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time. #wbyeats #poetry #grogwynion #woodland #nature #landscape #ystwyth #ystwythvalley #aberystwyth #ceredigion #wales
…where one Sunday every summer, the pilgrims climb the Reek. #croaghpatrick #stpatrick #pilgrimage #mountain #murrisk #westport #clewbay #mayo #ireland
Oh the Green and Red of Mayo I can see it still, Its soft and craggy boglands Its tall majestic hills. Where the ocean kisses Ireland And the waves carress its shore, Oh the feelin' it came over me To stay forever more, forever more. #mayo #gaa #gaelicfootball #allireland #sammaguire #ireland
Where the wandering water gushes, from the hills above Glencar. In pools among the rushes that scarce could bathe a star we seek for slumbering trout, and whispering in their ears give them unquiet dreams. Leaning softly out from ferns that drop their tears over the young streams. W B Yeats
Give me a pint of that black beer. #guinness #westport #mayo #ireland #thequietman #bokeh #mjhobans #hobansbar
Sometimes activity requires absolute stillness. #greyheron #heron #birds #birdlife #wildlife #nature #peatlandspark #dungannon #ireland
An Seisiún at Matt Molloy’s, Westport, Mayo. Ripping the tunes through the warm summer Connaught night. McGoldrick and Regan driving the melodies took me back 35 years to those two making it all happen with Toss the Feathers, magnificent. #irish #traditionalirishmusic #session #music #ireland
A free state farewell…until the next time. #dublin #baileathacliath #clontarf #dollymount #dollymountstrand #bullisland #bullwall #lighthouse #northbullislandlighthouse #starofthesea #wildswimming #bathingshelter #ireland
The Great Western Greenway / Bealach Mór an Iarthair Unsuccessfully dodging showers and successfully chasing the sunshine whilst cycling from Achill Island to Westport, Mayo. Making full use of a favourable Atlantic tailwind. #greatwesterngreenway #achillisland #westport #mayo #ireland #cycling
Sunshine at Culleenamore, rain at An Ros. #knocknarea #CnocnaRiabh #coolera #coolerapeninsula #queenmaeve #MiosgánMeadhbha #cairn #weather #rain #hilwalking #culleenamore #rossespoint #anros #strandhill #sligo #ireland
“Where the wandering water gushes, from the hills above Glencar…” #glencarwaterfall #glencar #waterfall #cascade #wbyeats #thestolenchild #poetry #sligo #ireland
River splashes against the rocks and I scale a slope, I hope the tracks won’t lead me down to dark black pits or places where we fall to bits… In my Mersey paradise. #mersey #merseyparadise #liverpool #stoneroses #skyline #lowlight #night #river #silhouette
Lifetime president of the Annagarriff Angling Society #heron #greyheron #bird #birdlife #wildlife #nature #peatlandspark #armagh #dungannon #ireland
‘Sperrin’ a thought for those of you who didn’t have a shady forest or a fresh, invigorating mountain stream to wet your cap in during this heatwave…although it was still overly uncomfortable. #sperrins #sperrinmountains #gortinglens #tyrone #tireoghain #ireland
Previously had a pretty uninspiring lawn, so I offered up a dash of wildflower seeds hoping to improve the lot. This summer the sward is a heady blend and of grasses interwoven with vetches, clovers, yarrow, knapweed, bedstraw, and self heal. #wildflowers #meadow #pollinators #garden #aberystwyth
Birdsfoot Trefoil, on the long island. #birdsfoottrefoil #wildflowers #flora #nature #wildlife #ynyshir #macro @rspbcymru.bsky.social
Sunny afternoon at Cors Dyfi. #fourspottedchaser #dragonfly #reedbed #wetlands #wildlife #wildlifephotography #nature #naturephotography #bog #dyfi
