Barry Murphy
@barrysguidedtours
Barry's Guided Tours. Small group guided hiking tours in West of Ireland, South of France, Catalunya & Andalucia. +353-86-8318748. Mayo, West of Ireland.
Marsh St John's-wort; Hypericum elodes; Luibh an chiorraithe. Achill Island last week. #wildflowerhour
This year, over 300 orchids in my never-cut* 36m2 front garden. . * once in March; once in late Sept. #wildflowerhour
The remarkable Lady's Slipper Orchid, Cypripedium calceolus, on an impossibly wet day in Tirol, Austria. What a total beaut. #wildflowerhour
Bad photos, but might this be Large Carder Bumblebee (Bombus muscorum), Common Carder (Bombus pascuorum), or neither?
The West Mayo disaster that is Rhododendron. The State and its various agencies, like NPWS and Coillte, do nothing whatsoever to control or eradicate this highly invasive plant.
Back on Inishturk yesterday. Min 4 Corncrake and excellent prolonged viewing of a patrolling Peregrine. Plus the scenery ...
Georgius Rex (1910-1936), The Burren. The V, for Fifth, was not part of his postbox cypher.
Insectivorous Butterwort in bloom today on The Burren. #wildflowers
Spring Gentian, Ceadharlach na Bealtaine. Banríon na Boirne. #wildflowerhour
Is this Dactylorhiza Kerryensis, aka Dactylorhiza majalis subsp. occidentalis, despite the lack of the 3 lobes on the lip? Burren, Ireland, today. @bsbiireland.bsky.social
Looks like a sundial stone to me, in a random Clare hedge. #archaeology
Lizard Orchid; Orchis bouc; Himantoglossum hircinum. Occitanie, France, this week. #wildflowerhour
Overnight field trip to Sligo this week with ATU Mayo's BA in History & Geography second year students taking the Fáilte Ireland accredited National Guiding module. @atumayo.bsky.social
Field trip to north Mayo last week with BA in History & Geography first year students of @atumayo.bsky.social taking the Guiding module. @atu-ie.bsky.social
Yellow Bee-orchid, Ophrys lutea, in Málaga province, 26 March 2026. #wildflowerhour
A brilliant album on its release in 1985, and still a brilliant album. Misplaced Childhood, Marillion.
Disappointing St Patrick's Day parade in Galway today. Castlebar's is genuinely much better. Almost no primary schools, virtually no music, no Irish parade classics, like McAlpine Fusiliers, no tribute to Dolores Keane, poor, very poor.
Beautiful bog track; pity about the non-native conifers beyond.
Beautifully located ringfort right on the Moy estuary, Killala Bay.
Best I managed of last night's Aurora over Castlebar. Phone camera with 10sec shutter speed.