#north down

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A lovely little Holly Blue butterfly in my parents’ garden today 😎🦋

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Raindrops on coastal grass.. North Down, Northern Ireland.

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The Crannog (Irish: crannóg) - seen at Castle Espie, County Down - is typically a partially or entirely artificial island, usually built in lakes, rivers and estuarine waters of Ireland and Scotland. Unlike the prehistoric pile dwellings around the Alps that were built on the shores and were inundated only later on, crannogs were built in the water, thus forming artificial islands. Crannogs were used as dwellings over five millennia, from the European Neolithic Period to as late as the 17th/early 18th century.

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Abandoned sand castle on the beach at Crawfordsburn at sunset.

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Under the pier at Royal Northern Ireland Yacht Club, Cultra.

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The joy of watching the natural comedy of these black guillemots on the harbour will at Groomsport, County Down.

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A teenage herring gull - such quiet, delicate creatures… 😳

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Black guillemots doing what they do on Eisenhower Pier in Bangor, County Down.

These lovely wee birds are so used to humans they sit still when you walk up to them and some will even approach you to investigate.