Our Sacred Burren is a Botanist Paradise III

Followed by a cornucopia of Mountain Avens a shrub that creeps & forms mats Adorning limestone pavements at Coolorta & Roo a twin of Wood Anemones With eight White petals & a stamen Yellow centre same as eggs Flowering for six long months April, May, June, July, August & September . Brightening up our Burren across the seasons traipsing & dawdling On evening walks With a Cream & Yellow spectrum of Yellow canary gold Buttercup flaxen, butter, lemon, mustard, corn, Dandelion, fire, honey, Bumblebee, blond, pineapple, Tuscan sun, Dijon .

Our Sacred Burren is a Botanist Paradise III

Mount Saint Joseph Abbey Richard Heaton first recorded Irish Botanist Two of his botanical finds from flora collection made into Present day Irish Stamps Of Blue Gentian & Mountain Avens . Where healing plants of wild Garlic & Valerian grow side by side Our Sacred Burren is a Botanist Paradise Whether boasting Burren habitats of Blanket Bogs or Orchid rich grassland To its calcareous springs & moist grazing grounds Its Turloughs Fens & Limestone Pavement & woodlands To its Heath’s, Sand dunes, Lakes or Scrub Or with its Blanket Bog covered in Bog Cotton & Bell Heather Conjuring up cushiony feathery squashy cottony cosy Boasting hues tints tones shades of ivory Beige zinc & Cremintz Pearly alabaster snow chiffon salt lace porcelain parchment With Bell Heather ringing out over the Blankets of Bog Wine mulberry plum Lilac heather .

Sang out by scrub birds Robin Erithacus Rubecula Who shines out like an emblem of the season Spring? With a fleeting spirit from other worlds With her string of clear whistles assembled from a few repeated syllables Often described as cheerily cheer cheer cheer Or Stone Chat Saxicola Torquata chirping & singing With a call resembling the sound of two pebbles struck together . The Blackbird Turdus Merula With its melodious three second lyrical song & Song Thrush Turdus Philomelos singing Aria In a flute-like ee-oh-lay singing out 2 to 10 Loud clear notes soft with higher pitched complex thrill She knows 50 different songs in her lifetime imagine . While the Wren Troglodytes Trogbodytes Sings jumbled babbling & abrupt churrs & scolds With bell like notes in a repertoire of 22 songs Whereas the Bluetit Cynastes Caeruleus Pettite Blue & Yellow plumage Listen for its trilling tsee-tsee-tsee song . Whereas the Nightingale Luscinia Megarhynchos Sings a loud whisteling cresendo & Chaffinch Fringilla Coelets Sings a short rattling Vibratto With its pulsating change of pitch Like Montserrat Cabellé & Leontyne Price, Tania Kassis & Andrea Bocelli singing out Ave Maria Vibrating every note in a tremor for mate . & Goldfinch Cardvelis Carduelis Of the many names like Goldie, Red Cap & King Harry Perches on our Botanist Burren paradise Cries out a Palestrina liquid twittering song Attracting all her mates across our Burren paradise .