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Den 🇮🇪 @denterrick.bsky.social · Nov 17
The sunset this evening from a country road out in the hills above Dublin.

#Photography #EastCoastKin #MountainMonday #MinimalMonday #Ireland
Watching the sun go down over the mountains above Dublin.
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For Alan's #BirdOfTheDay theme of #mostrecent. This is a mother Mute Swan at our local park keeping an eye on me as I was taking pics of her young earlier this year.

#Photography #NaturePhotography #Birds #Swan #EastCoastKin #Dublin #Ireland
A female mute swan standing on grass staring into the camera.
December 26, 2025 at 11:32 AM
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Spaceship rising from the clouds.

#Photography #Mountains #Nature #Sunset #StormHour #PhotoHour #EastCoastKin #Scape #Landscape #Dublin #Ireland
Clouds on the mountain at sunset. A communications tower rising from the summit.
December 26, 2025 at 11:19 AM
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Wishing you all a Merry Christmas. I hope you all have a wonderful holiday with family and friends. Thank you to all the friends I've made here over the last year. It's been a grand old time. All the best. 🌲 ☃️ 👋 🥂

#Hiking #Photography #EastCoastKin #WoodlandWednesday #Ireland
Sitting by a river in the forest. Peace and quiet away from the bustling world.
December 24, 2025 at 11:10 AM
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I know this season can be difficult if you're alone or feeling lonely in the crowd. Our struggles are not always obvious to everyone around us. Please try to be kind to yourselves. We all deserve kindness, love and respect. 🫂 ❤️

#EastCoastKin #Ireland
The forest at Christmas.
December 24, 2025 at 9:45 AM
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Two swans from our local park. Not the best photos but interesting to see their growth. Photos are from: May, June, September and December.

#Photography #Nature #Birds #Swan #Twosday #EastCoastKin #Ireland
Two small cygnets swimming in a park lake. Slightly bigger cygnets stretching out. Grown quite a bit between June and September. Fully grown but don't have their full adult plumage yet.
December 23, 2025 at 7:53 AM
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Shine On.

#Hiking #Photography #NaturePhotography #Woodland #Woods #Fungi #FungiFriends #Mycology #Mushrooms #Macro #MacroPhotography #Nature #EastCoastKin #Ireland
A small brown mushroom with a shiny cap growing on the forest floor. A Liberty Cap, or possibly a Redlead Roundhead.
December 23, 2025 at 7:45 AM
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The misty forest.

#hiking #photography #naturephotography #forest #trees #woodland #woods #nature #naturewalk #outdoorlife #scenery #moodyphotography #darknature #greenery #EastCoastKin
A dreamlike view of an overgrown path through a forest lit by the late afternoon sun. A low cloud hangs over the forest creating hazy light through the trees.
December 22, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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Nature Therapy: Walk up the mountain. Take in the view. Repeat until you feel better.

#Hiking #Photography #Mountains #MountainMonday #Nature #Scape #Landscape #EastCoastKin #Ireland
Lookup up a hiking path to the top of the mountain. The top partially obscured by cloud. Mute brown winter gorse all around. At the top of Djouce mountain looking over woods, fields and farmland. In the distance to the left is The Sugar Loaf mountain, a few farms to the right.
December 22, 2025 at 9:09 AM
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Looking through some photos from last Spring, found this silky haired beauty from Glendalough lakes last April.

#Hiking #Photography #EastCoastKin #Ireland
A feral Old Irish Goat (yes that's what we call them) standing on a rocky shore at the edge of the forest.
December 21, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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A cold December sun and an old dry stone wall on the side of a mountain. Near Djouce in Co. Wicklow.

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A cold blue sky with the sun peeking through a gap in a dry stone wall. Hard to believe people used to build these walls by hand up the side of mountains.
December 21, 2025 at 10:42 AM
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It was dark all morning, then the sky cleared and the forest lit up.

#Hiking #Photography #NaturePhotography #Forest #Trees #Woodland #Woods #Nature #EastCoastKin #ColorADay #GreenSat #Dublin #Ireland
A mossy overgrown path with mid-morning Winter light seeping in between the trees.
December 20, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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Ah, I'm losing track. Thank you for all the likes, reposts and replies. Some older boys brought me out for afternoon drinks. It turns out you can excuse almost anything with the phrase "It's Christmas".
December 19, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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For Alan & Rob's #LongLegsAndNeck #BirdOfTheDay theme. I immediately thought of herons.

This Grey Heron is a staple at our local park.

#Photography #EastCoastKin #Heron #Birds #Ireland
A grey heron standing on the bank of a park lake. Looks like sunset light but was around 12 in the day. Late December in Ireland.
December 19, 2025 at 8:18 AM
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Golden hour in the forest.

#Hiking #Photography #EastCoastKin #NaturePhotography #ForestFriday #Forest #Trees #Woodland #Woods #Nature #GoldenHour #Dublin #Ireland
A view of a darkening forest as the sun starts to set. The late afternoon sun peeking out between two trees.
December 19, 2025 at 8:06 AM
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All gone now. The last butterfly I saw on a hike about a month ago. A beautiful small tortoiseshell.

#Hiking #Photography #NaturePhotography #Butterfly #InsectThursday #PhotographersUnited #PhotographersOfBluesky #EastCoastKin #Dublin #Ireland
An orange and black butterfly perched on a white milk thistle plant. The background a green blur of meadow vegetation.
December 18, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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Golden hour at the end of the hike on Tuesday. Brilliant, clear skies for the middle of December.

#Hiking #Photography #PhotographersUnited #PhotographersOfBluesky #NaturePhotography #Mountains #Nature #Sunset #StormHour #PhotoHour #EastCoastKin #ColorADay #YellowThu #Dublin #Ireland
Golden grassland, yellowed mountains, the sky liquid gold.
December 18, 2025 at 8:59 AM
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Walking in the forest because the news is depressing me.

#Hiking #NaturePhotography #Nature #Forest #Trees #Woodland #Woods #Photography #PhotographersUnited #PhotographersOfBluesky #EastCoastKin #Dublin #Ireland
A closeup of crunchy yellowed leaves with a forest and river blurred in the background.
December 17, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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#Hiking #Forest #Woods #Photography #NaturePhotography #PhotographersUnited #PhotographersOfBluesky #EastCoastKin #WackyWednesdayArt #Ireland

Busy spider at work
A pine tree sampling with almost every surface covered in spider webs woven around the branches.
December 17, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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In-flight Puffin shot...up close...

#wildlifephotography #naturephotography #birdphotography #ukbirds
December 16, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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Watching the sun set in the hills above Dublin, Ireland.

#Hiking #Photography #Scape #Landscape #Mountains #Nature #Sunset #EastCoastKin #Dublin #Ireland
The end of a hiking trail, sitting at the side of the road, drinking tea, waiting for the sun to set.
December 16, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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Another set from Ireland's Wild Mushrooms. 🍄 😀

From the last week in the forests around Dublin and Wicklow.

#Hiking #Nature #Photography #NaturePhotography #Forest #Woodland #Woods #Fungi #FungiFriends #Mycology #Mushrooms #Macro #MacroPhotography #EastCoastKin #Ireland
A thick stemmed Butter Cap starting to curl. A colourful little scene with a cluster of Conifer Tufts shinning in the light at the edge of the forest. Another colourful little scene nearby with a single Liberty Cap. One of the last left. A large Shoehorn Oyster. The same kind as that oddly shaped monster I posted yesterday. This is how they normally look.
December 16, 2025 at 9:09 AM
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Stuck here in Winter wishing for a little summer warmth.

#hiking #photography #naturephotography #forest #trees #woodland #woods #nature #EastCoastKin #Ireland
A hiking path into the woods on a pleasant summer's day.
December 15, 2025 at 10:17 AM
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An Elephantine monster.

#Hiking #Photography #NaturePhotography #EastCoastKin #Fungi #FungiFriends #Mycology #Mushrooms #MacroMonday #Macro #MacroPhotography #Ireland
Found this on a hike last week under a copse of beech trees. I believe they are Shoehorn Oysters.
December 15, 2025 at 7:58 AM
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A group of hikers I met on Glendoo mountain. Looking out here towards Dublin City with pleasant Autumn colours from the late afternoon sun.

#Hiking #Photography #NaturePhotography #LandscapePhotography #Scape #Landscape #EastCoastKin #Mountains #Nature #StunDay #Dublin #Ireland
A view across a ridge of mountain grassland onto the far hills with Dublin City and the bay just about visible. A group of hikers wandering away across the fields. The faint reddish glow from the gorse still lingers here in Autumn but becomes more muted than this in Winter. A cold but bright blue sky made for a beautiful day out on the hills.
December 14, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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For Alan's #BirdOfTheDay theme #HeronsandEgrets, one of our local park herons.

Taken with a vintage manual lens with beautiful December low light. Looks like sunset though it was only 11:30am.

#Photography #NaturePhotography #Nature #StunDay #Birds #Heron #EastCoastKin #Ireland
A Grey Heron standing in the grass on the shore of a park lake, lit by the morning sun. Staring out into the water the way they do.
December 14, 2025 at 10:21 AM