A Concretion that has eroded from the stone layers at the Cliffs of Moher and taken a bit of a battering on the shore.
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Looking South towards Hags Head as the low evening sun in the West lights up the rock faces at the Cliffs of Moher.
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The chatter and cries of the seabird colonies - Kittiwakes (Risa tridactyla) and Common Guillemots (Uria aalge). A temporary cliff city that sets up on the ledges every year between April and August, as the adults get reacquainted with each other and raise their young.
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Fiadh waiting patiently to get a look the Squat Lobster (Galathea squamifera) I've picked up. I think she was hoping to see something a bit more snackable.
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Guillemots (Uria aalge) and Kittiwakes (Risa tridactyla) occupying their nesting ledges for the breeding season at the Cliffs of Moher.
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An Braunann Mór - the big seastack beneath the Cliffs of Moher. During this time of year it hosts over 6,000 breeding seabirds on its ledges. Mostly Guillemots, Kittiwakes with some Razorbills and Shags scattered throughout.
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A thin sheet of iridescent Nacre or Mother of Pearl from a Saddle Oyster (Anomia ephippium) shell.
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Overlapping Bryozoan sea mats on a large kelp frond. These are colonies of individual animals called zooids that attach them selves to seaweeds and other surfaces.
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Sheltering from passing showers in the back of a Sea cave.
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The night sky trapped in a shore stone.

A mix of carboniferous era marine fossils in a seaworn sedimentary pebble.
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These fossilized Goniatite shells look like rock hieroglyphs that someone has etched in the stone.
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Sea pinks (Armeria maritima) and stiff sea breezes at the Cliffs of Moher.
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Fossilized Crinoid stems and segments. Relatives of Starfish and Sea Urchins, this extinct species of Crinoid once covered the ocean floor in this area. We can find its fossilized remains scattered throughout the rocks in the Burren and Cliffs of Moher UNESCO Geopark.
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Fiadh, taking a break at the Cliffs of Moher.
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Goniatite fossil in a polished shale pebble.
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Sea pink (Armeria maritima) scenes all along the Cliff edges today.
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Galaxies spiraling through a star speckled sky.
Goniatite fossils of varying sizes in a sea smoothed stone.
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Saint Patrick's Cabbage (Saxifraga spathularis) is a Saxifrage species found in Spain, Portugal and Ireland!! A member of a small group of plants called "Lusitanian flora) that are found in these countries but not in England, Wales or Scotland.
County Kerry, Ireland.

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Razorbill (Alca torda) beak. Left overs from a Peregrine falcon's meal.
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