A shore tumbled pebble packed with fossilized Goniatite shells. Dating back to the Carboniferous era over 300 million years ago - the warm seas that once covered this area teemed with these ancient relatives of Squid and Octopus.
County Clare, Ireland.
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A 7-spot Ladybird (Coccinella septempunctata). All sorts of insects have reappeared over the last few weeks.
County Clare, Ireland.
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"This one's hatching!!"
A smooth Septarian nodule.
County Clare, Ireland.
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A Comb jelly or Sea Gooseberry (Pleurobrachia pileus) left on the sand by the retreating tide.
County Clare, Ireland.
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A pretty wee pebble.
Rhyolitic porphyry, I think, with a variety of different size and colour crystals scattered throughout.
County Clare, Ireland.
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Sea pink (Armeria maritima) scenes all along the Cliff edges today.
County Clare, Ireland.
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Dandelion (Taraxacum officinale) clocks starting to show up on roadside verges.
County Clare, Ireland.
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Galaxies spiraling through a star speckled sky.
Goniatite fossils of varying sizes in a sea smoothed stone.
County Clare, Ireland.
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Watching tiny waves in the sunshine.
County Kerry, Ireland.
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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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European Common Sea-urchin (Echinus esculentus) shell fragments.
County Kerry, Ireland.
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A nice afternoon watching waves swashing and swirling through gullies and gaps along the shoreline.
County Clare, Ireland.
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Razorbill (Alca torda) beak. Left overs from a Peregrine falcon's meal.
County Clare, Ireland.
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A fossilized piece of a Calamites plant. Over 300 million years ago, when this area was a tropical delta, these giant relatives of modern Horsetail plants thrived.
County Clare, Ireland.
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The Cliffs of Moher, County Clare, Ireland.
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A small concretion that has eroded out of the sedimentary rock layers here on the shore. It possibly has a fossil inside, but I like it too much to break it open 
County Clare, Ireland.
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A juvenile Spider crab (Maja squinado). When fully grown, they are the largest crab species regularly found in Irish waters.
County Clare, Ireland.
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A closer look at some bits of Honeycomb Reef.
Formed by Honeycomb Reef worms (Sabellaria alveolata).
County Clare, Ireland.
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A Beadlet Anemone (Actinia equina) With its blue beads (stinging cells) showing nicely. They use these on each other when jostling for position in rockpools.
County Clare, Ireland.
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Goniatite fossils, formed over 300 million years ago, looking almost as surprised to see me as I was them 
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