Research trip through Great Britain & Ireland – Ireland

Here I show some further photos from the last weeks. The weather was not that pleasant in Wales – always windy and rainy.

Fireweed (Epilobium angustifolium) at the shore of a lake in Wales

Stream in the northern part of Wales

Then I went to Ireland. Luckily, the sea was very calm while the ferry passage and it was possible to get some shots of a very special bird species:

Manx Shearwater (Puffinus puffinus). These amazing birds stay all their life on the sea. They come just to the land for breeding and then just during the night. They are the ‘albatrosses’ of the northern hemisphere.

In Ireland again just one day with really pleasant weather.

Flowering heathland in Wicklow National Park

When I arrived in western Ireland a little storm started and it was too much wind to work in the forests for two days. So I could stay at the bridges of Ross, had the chance to meet nice people and enjoy the beautiful landscape.

Stormy morning at the bridges of Ross, Ireland

Sunrise at the bridges of Ross

The swallen sea