Daily dander photo dump. Including how The Premier Tree™️ is looking today, the reopened Fairy Trail now the trees that were toppled in the last storm have been cleared (and parts of their trunks turned into logs to sit on).

#Walking #HeartHealth #MoatPark #Dundonald #Trees

It’s a bit miserable out there today and the stream in #MoatPark is very high, fast-flowing and muddy but - *drum roll* 🥁 - the #dipper is back!
Spotted it zooming up the stream.
So glad to see they’re still around 😎👍

#nature #wildlife #bird #birds #waterbird #songbird #urban #dundonald #CountyDown #NorthernIreland #weather #spring
@RSPB

More #SpringFlowers emerging in #MoatPark this morning;
#WoodForgetMeNot, #Toothwort, #WoodAnemone & #StripedSquill

#nature #naturephotography #plant #flower #flowers #spring #park #publicpark #dundonald #CountyDown #NorthernIreland #shotoniphone

Spring has sprung in #MoatPark, #dundonald 😎

#daffodils and #GrapeHyacinths in bloom around the ancient moat.

#nature #naturephotography #plant #flower #flowers #bloom #daffodil #GrapeHyacinth #sunshine #spring #springflowers #CountyDown #NorthernIreland

First #frogspawn of the year in the #MoatPark #wildlife #garden this morning 🐸🥚😎

#nature #naturephotography #animal #amphibian #frog #commonfrog #water #Freshwater #pond #pondlife #spring #signsofspring @RSPB

I swear - local wildlife knows when I’m not carrying my big camera 🤦🏼‍♂️
This morning it was a buzzard, just sitting on a fence in the Moat Park Playing Fields 😳
Shot on iPhone, 3x digital zoom.

#nature #naturephotography #wildlife #bird #birds #birdofprey #buzzard #perched #playingfields #MoatPark #dundonald #CountyDown #NorthernIreland @RSPB

#FieldMaple leaves still hanging on in #MoatPark, #dundonald.

#nature #NaturePhotography #wildlife #tree #maple #backlit #backlight #sunlight #SunThroughLeaf #CountyDown #NorthernIreland #autumn #AutumnColour #autumnal #autumnleaves

Finally found a use for the 1-inch-square piece of polarising film I’ve been keeping in my wallet for a couple of years.
A three-shot panorama of a rainbow from atop the Moat in Moat Park, Dundonald.
Shot on iPhone, stitched and processed in Affinity Photo.

#nature #naturephotography #weather #cloud #rain #rainbow #autumn #rainbow #panorama #refraction #iphone #shotoniphone #AffinityPhoto #moat #MoatPark #dundonald #CountyDown #NorthernIreland

A nice crop of #OrangeGrisette #fungi in #MoatPark 🍄

#nature #NaturePhotography #wildlife #fungus #FungusAmongUs #FungusPhotography #dundonald #CountyDown #NorthernIreland

A nice #LeccinumScabrum - #BrownBirchBolete fungus in #MoatPark this afternoon 🍄

#nature #Naturephotography #wildlife #fungus #FungusPhotography #fungusamongus #fungi #park #bolete #dundonald #CountyDown #NorthernIreland