These fossilized Goniatite shells look like rock hieroglyphs that someone has etched in the stone.
County Clare, Ireland.

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Sea pinks (Armeria maritima) and stiff sea breezes at the Cliffs of Moher.
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"Fiddle-heads"
Unfurling ferns in damp shady wooded areas.
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"Ears in the updrafts"
Fiadh checking out what's happening on the shoreline at the Cliffs of Moher.
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Fossilized Crinoid stems and segments. Relatives of Starfish and Sea Urchins, this extinct species of Crinoid once covered the ocean floor in this area. We can find its fossilized remains scattered throughout the rocks in the Burren and Cliffs of Moher UNESCO Geopark.
County Clare, Ireland.

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Fiadh, taking a break at the Cliffs of Moher.
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Goniatite fossil in a polished shale pebble.
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A Heart Urchin/Sea potato (Echinocardium cordatum) shell. The skeletal remains of an urchin species that spend almost all of their lives beneath the sand.
County Clare, Ireland.

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An Epidote shore-stone. A wee remnant of volcanic rock formed millions of years ago to the North of here (Galway) and likely dragged South and deposited here by glaciers during the last iceage over 15,000 years ago.
County Clare, Ireland.

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A Marsh violet (Viola palustris) flower.
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The "Eye of Sauron" came to mind when I picked up this partially eroded concretion.
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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.
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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.
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Sea pink (Armeria maritima) scenes all along the Cliff edges today.
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Dandelion (Taraxacum officinale) clocks starting to show up on roadside verges.
County Clare, Ireland.

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