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Conversations with people about landscapes, their culture, ecology, history and wildlife. This is not land ownership in the traditional sense. It's about sharing the stories of urban ecologists, rural field officers, community scientists, landscape writers and photographers.
Watching ravens in the Ox Mountains, County Mayo 🇮🇪
Unlocking Landscapes
22 minutes
2 years ago
Watching ravens in the Ox Mountains, County Mayo 🇮🇪
It's January 2023 and my podcast, Unlocking Landscapes, is 2 years old! Thanks to everyone who has contributed and supported so far.
I do this podcast at my own costs so if you want to support it (it costs a basic £100 annually to host my Podbean account) you can 'buy me a coffee/camomile' here: https://ko-fi.com/djgwild
I haven't posted for a while, mainly for professional and technical reasons. The biggest issue is that I needed to upgrade my ailing desktop PC, which I have now done. It's in much better shape now, so no more IT excuses but hopefully more podcasts.
In September I spent a week in Mayo in Ireland and recorded two podcasts. One is an early evening walk in the Ox Mountains, encountering rickety gates and performing ravens. The second one (still to come) is a walk with Seán Lysaght, which I can't wait to share with you. I've been a big fan of Seán's writing for over a decade, so it was a massive honour to spend an afternoon walking with him. More on that one soon!
In the Ox Mountains I go for a walk, describing the surrounding landscape, capturing two ravens (acoustically) as they fly close by from where the breed in the hills. I also talk a bit about issues with cottages which aren't connected to mains water, amongst many other things.
Here are the reference points:
The Ox Mountains
Mayo Dark Skies Park
The Irish famine
Irish History Podcast
American mink
Fires in Mayo
Ravens
Nephin
Ash dieback disease
Sphagnum moss
Croagh Patrick
Thanks for listening!
Unlocking Landscapes
Conversations with people about landscapes, their culture, ecology, history and wildlife. This is not land ownership in the traditional sense. It's about sharing the stories of urban ecologists, rural field officers, community scientists, landscape writers and photographers.
