Summer 2024 Round Up

We would like to introduce you to the ‘Blog About The Bog’ where we to keep you up to date the with the activities that the group and it’s members are involved in..

We’ve listed some of the highlights of the wonderful nature that we recorded on Stormanstown Bog this year.

Frog Study

We discovered a few pools of frog spawn in late February and decided to start tracking them. 1 day I arrived to discover that the mating season was still ongoing!

We started monitoring the pools and this lasted for about 3 months, by which time the froglets seem to have emerged from the water and moved away from the area.

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Northern Lights ( Aurora Borealis )

Getting to see the Northern Lights ( Aurora Borealis ) has been a bucket list item for me for a long time and I’d been making enquiries about taking a trip to Iceland or Norway with a group over the coming winter to hopefully see them, but I did say to myself that it wouldn’t be the same as seeing them closer to home.

I’ve made a few unsuccessful attempts to capture them locally over the years and have been following a few website \ Twitter accounts for forecasts. They regularly highlighted the type of figures we would need to see on the forecasts for the display to be visible in our area. Imagine my surprise in early May when the alerts started coming in and the figures were off the charts! There was only one place to be that night so I headed for the bog.

It truly was an awesome experience to witness this phenomenon standing in a place that is so close to my heart.

These are some of the images I captured over the space of an hour that night.