Frost on the glass, a robin in the bean bed.
Many of Ireland’s garden birds are now on red or orange lists — still singing, but fewer each year.

Feeders, water, ivy, hedges: small acts that hold the line through winter.

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This is a very interesting photo. Take on the beach at Ballyliffin, Donegal, it shows the contact between the Termon Formation in the foreground and the Slieve Tooey quartzite Formation on the background. The Termon consists of pellitic schists, and the contact between the 2 is define by a fault, with the top of the older Slieve Tooey being sheered as well.

Both formations are part of the Argyll Group, the middle group of the Neoproterozoic Dalradian.

And to crown it off, very near the actual contact, in the center of the photo, we have a Rock pipit posing.

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