North Atlantic Skyline - - Photographs from the west of Ireland (Galway, Mayo, Clare, Limerick, Roscommon and even Leitrim)

The Longest Day

So how did you spend the longest day of the year?

I found myself walking in the Sliabh Bloom mountains(ok, ok, hills) - the hills were covered with heather and bog-cotton and the walks in the forest were decorated with swathes of foxgloves and scented with honeysuckle.

I spotted a couple of fallow deer, and a stoat, but the highlight was two sightings (at opposite ends of the range) of a male hen harrier - I have never seen a male specimen before.