Saturday pics of the week

Pics 1-6 this blessed Christmas Eve are by Antrim Lens.

Pic 1                                                              Pic 2

                       Pic 3                                                                     Pic 4

Pic 5                                                                      Pic 6

“Hi Jude, Happy Christmas to you, your family and all your followers.

This weeks photos are from The Strand at Lough Beg, and one can’t walk this strand and not think of Seamus Heaney and the inspiration this Lough had on his life.

The first photo’s of Church  Island looking across the strand and the second from down along the shore to also get Roddy McCorley’s bridge into the background.

Photos 3 & 4 are of the great flocks of Lapwing that overwinter on the Lough, and a lot of birders see the Lapwing as the national bird of Ireland because of the colour of its beautiful plumage of green, white and gold.

Photos 5 & 6 are of a Little Egret, these birds only started breeding in Ireland in 1997 and are still fairly scarce so I was well chuffed to see 5 at Lough Beg and to also get a few photos of them.  Think I’ll head back up over Christmas to get another look at them.”

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Pics 7-9 are by Perkin Warbeck

              Pic 7                                                   Pic 8

Pic 9 

“CHRISTMAS   in VALLETTA

Pic 7:   Christmas Tree, made of Mdina glass, outside the New Parliament Building of Malta on Triq Ir-Repubblika. Malta will host the Presidency of the EU from Jan-Jun, 2017. Brexit will maybe get a mench on the benches, both front and back.

Pic 8    House of Common Marketeer, Triq Il-Merkanti.

Pic 9:     MAIN   GUARD HOUSE, Misrah San Gorg.”

Pics 10 and 11: Jude 

Pic 10                                                              Pic 11

“Pic 10 gives my grand-daughter Niamh a chance to show what she thinks of me.

Pic 11:  My son Matt in a meditative moment with Niamh’s big sister Róisín.”