http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Irish-Natural-History/ Moderated forum for the discussion of all aspects of Ireland's natural history Sun, 20 Apr 2008 09:10:41 GMT charles bunker http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Irish-Natural-History/message/301 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Irish-Natural-History/message/301 Dia duit I would like to introduce myself. My name is Charles Bunker. I was born and raise in the USA. My family, the MacCarpenters came from Ireland many Tue, 02 Oct 2007 12:53:42 GMT natrgirl2007 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Irish-Natural-History/message/300 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Irish-Natural-History/message/300 Hello! I just joined the group and wanted to introduce myself. My name is Karen Opp and I live in central Missouri, USA. This summer I was able to fulfill a Mon, 27 Aug 2007 16:00:49 GMT Stiof MacAmhalghaidh http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Irish-Natural-History/message/299 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Irish-Natural-History/message/299 Forwarding notice... this will be a good event for anyone who can make it - expert guidance around one of Ireland's few remaining scraps of ancient woodland Wed, 04 Apr 2007 21:47:24 GMT Ciaran Hughes http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Irish-Natural-History/message/298 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Irish-Natural-History/message/298 Dear all, A good friend of mine asked me to distribute this information on a tree nursery he established. The trees come from a nursery set up by Ted Cook in Mon, 11 Dec 2006 04:21:56 GMT Stiof MacAmhalghaidh http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Irish-Natural-History/message/297 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Irish-Natural-History/message/297 As a part of a piece of research I'm working on I have a need to get data on ancient woodlands in Ireland and in adjacent lands - Britain, France, Germany, Fri, 08 Dec 2006 22:45:19 GMT Theresa Kishkan http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Irish-Natural-History/message/296 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Irish-Natural-History/message/296 Oh, interesting. So, looking in my journal, I see that it was May 16th and 17th, 2006, that significant numbers of Velella velella were on the beaches commonly Fri, 08 Dec 2006 21:38:36 GMT British Marine Life Study Society http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Irish-Natural-History/message/295 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Irish-Natural-History/message/295 Hello Theresa, I am glad that you confirmed Velella from the Pacific. I thought they must be there, but I did not know for certain. I expect you just missed Fri, 08 Dec 2006 01:11:05 GMT Theresa Kishkan http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Irish-Natural-History/message/294 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Irish-Natural-History/message/294 How odd to read this! I grew up on the west coast of British Columbia and never heard of this particular jellyfish until last May when I spent a few days at Wed, 06 Dec 2006 00:30:00 GMT glaucus25 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Irish-Natural-History/message/293 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Irish-Natural-History/message/293 Hello, Are any Velella velella being washed up on Irish beaches right now? I expect there are. Anything else washed in? Cheers Andy Horton. glaucus@... Thu, 09 Nov 2006 23:45:23 GMT Stiof MacAmhalghaidh http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Irish-Natural-History/message/292 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Irish-Natural-History/message/292 ... From: fsc-watch [mailto:info@...] Sent: 06 November 2006 13:58 To: info@... Subject: FSC-Watch - New internet platform challenges the Tue, 24 Oct 2006 14:26:08 GMT victoria tester http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Irish-Natural-History/message/291 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Irish-Natural-History/message/291 Hi, Bitten, searching through the Atlas of the Irish Rural Landscape, I found this reference to the Yew. It is contained within a footnote to a simple map Thu, 19 Oct 2006 15:02:19 GMT britt_marie_agneta.forsudd@... http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Irish-Natural-History/message/290 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Irish-Natural-History/message/290 Thanks for the welcome, Victoria! It would be nice to see what booktitles you have on the topic, I am pretty much in the dark here, since Natural History is Fri, 13 Oct 2006 12:01:39 GMT britt_marie_agneta.forsudd@... http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Irish-Natural-History/message/289 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Irish-Natural-History/message/289 Thank you for good advice upon other groups. And I won't be shy in my forthcoming silence then... ;D Best wishes, Bitten Fri, 13 Oct 2006 11:59:58 GMT victoria tester http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Irish-Natural-History/message/288 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Irish-Natural-History/message/288 October 12 Hello, welcome, Bitten Forsudd. I am a poet, not really a scholar, but it would be interesting to hear your research and read your writing about the Thu, 12 Oct 2006 14:10:33 GMT Stiof MacAmhalghaidh http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Irish-Natural-History/message/287 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Irish-Natural-History/message/287 ... Well, this group may well be of help as there are several 'tree people' here. You will also find that members of irish-placename-studies group will be