This stunning macro photo of a crab spider at Boora Parklands, Co. Offaly was posted to the Ireland’s Wildlife Flickr Group by Michael Carroll. It’s an amazing shot of an animal that I have yet to see in Ireland… not for want of trying. Not jealous at all. Well, maybe…….

Browsing through the Ireland’s Wildlife photography group on Flickr recently I thought it would be a great idea to share some of the fantastic photographs of Irish wildlife that are being posted there on this wildlife blog. So let’s kick off with this stunning portrait of one of my favourite….

Here are a selection of stunning wildlife shots submitted by fans of the Ireland’s Wildlife page on Facebook and the Irelands Wildlife Flickr photo-sharing group. Enjoy! Wood mouse… by Caher Bridge Garden via Facebook Pine Marten… by Enda Flynn via Flickr Small Copper… by Wild Carlow via Facebook Pygmy Shrew….

Ireland’s Wildlife now has a brand new Flickr group, where you can share your images of Irish nature with the rest of our online community. Flickr is one of the world’s leading photo-sharing websites (now owned by the Yahoo! network) and makes it really easy to share, comment and discuss….