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Marsh orchid and health spotted orchid in north Skye’s mild month of May.

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June 1, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Health bumble, carder bumble, fringe cups, bumble on bugle, and tree wasp with hawthorn flowers.

#bees #pollinators #inverts
June 1, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Red clover, seamar a’ chapuill, the mare’s clover in Gaelic, also sùgag for the honey infused bloom that comes a little later.

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May 19, 2025 at 11:19 AM
white clover, seamar bhàn, the fair gentle one in Gaelic and Irish.

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May 19, 2025 at 11:16 AM
white clover, seamar bhàn, the fair gentle one in Gaelic and Irish.

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May 19, 2025 at 11:14 AM
sweet vernal grass
May 19, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Veronica chamaedrys, Germander Speedwell in Skye, nuallach (also for a howling cry) in Gaelic.

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May 11, 2025 at 7:05 PM
hawthorn, sgeach - a haw, roots in hu (celtic) - pervading while its scent smelled.

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May 5, 2025 at 9:48 AM
heath spotted orchid, maculata, ùrach bhallach

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May 5, 2025 at 9:41 AM
Green-veined white, Skye

#teammoth
April 29, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Ruby tiger moth, Skye

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April 29, 2025 at 3:04 PM
opposite leaves golden saxifrage, Skye

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April 29, 2025 at 9:33 AM
drinker moth, Skye

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April 29, 2025 at 9:29 AM
hardy fuchsia, Skye

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April 29, 2025 at 9:19 AM
bumble on bugle

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April 29, 2025 at 9:13 AM
red campion, skye

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April 29, 2025 at 9:08 AM
cuckooflowers in Skye

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April 27, 2025 at 9:09 PM
coast rockcress in Skye

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April 27, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Heard the calls of cuckoo birds before seeing the blooming cuckoo flowers.
April 22, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Pottailes in north Skye.

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April 20, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Field woodrush, learman-raoin in gaelic, lear, or
léir - being clear and discernible.

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April 20, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Rowan's tiny flower buds showing through in north Skye, known as fuinseag coille - the wood enchantress, or craobh chaoran - the berry tree, and in old gaelic as luis, for a drink.

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April 20, 2025 at 7:05 PM
The process of knowing another — marsh-marigold (caltha palustris), through consistent visits.

A chorrach shod — the clumsy one of the marsh. Or, lus bhuidhne bealtuinn — the yellow plant of Beltane/May, with bel/baal referring to the sun-god, and teine the fire.
April 17, 2025 at 4:09 PM
the calls, heard in an April morning signalling a temporary goodbye, connecting one home to another, from Mni Sota Makoce to An t-eilean Sgitheanach, the Maang (Anishinaabe), the Mdóza(Dakota), and the Muir-Bhuachaill(Gaelic).

#seabirds
April 7, 2025 at 8:53 AM