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A gathering in Tralee’s Town Park for the Kerry Wild Bee Festival over the weekend.Photo By : Domnick Walsh © Eye Focus LTD ©
THE fourth Kerry Wild Bee Festival took place at Tralee Bay Wetlands over the past weekend.
This year the festival focussed on ‘Developing community resilience with the help of our pollinators’.
Transition Kerry hosted an interactive conversation with Ballybunion Nature Group, Castlegregory Tidy Towns and Tralee Tidy Towns, focusing on their community actions for pollinators.
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Festival events included planting fruit trees for pollinators at the Greenway with Friends of the Tralee to Fenit Greenway Community Group.
There was also a workshop on getting to know our wild bees and how to submit records to the National Biodiversity Data Centre and nature based art activities with Phil McSweeney.
This festival was proudly supported by the Kerry County Council, Ceangal Local Authority Heritage Programme and led by Transition Kerry in collaboration with Tralee Bay Wetlands Ecology Park, the Irish Wildlife Trust Kerry Branch, and a wide network of Tidy Towns groups and community organisations from across the county. Scroll down for photos…
Bee hunters in Tralee’s Town Park at the Kerry Wild Bee Festival . Photo By : Domnick Walsh © Eye Focus LTD ©
The fourth Kerry Wild Bee Festival took place at Tralee Bay Wetlands over the weekend.Photo By : Domnick Walsh © Eye Focus LTD
The fourth Kerry Wild Bee Festival took place at Tralee Bay Wetlands over the weekend.Photo By : Domnick Walsh © Eye Focus LTD
The fourth Kerry Wild Bee Festival took place at Tralee Bay Wetlands over the weekend.Photo By : Domnick Walsh © Eye Focus LTD
Sarah Nolan , Gráinne Toomey and Sean Culhane from Kerry at the Kerry Wild Bee Festival .Photo By : Domnick Walsh © Eye Focus LTD
Molly O’Callaghan and Sarah Nolan from Kerry at the Kerry Wild Bee Festival Photo By : Domnick Walsh © Eye Focus LTD
Great work,looking after kerry bees
Well Done, All!
Very nice to see these sweet conservation efforts continuing to grow in this rich area, where I also grew up part of my childhood in the ’70s, and visit family and friends as able – your helping all grow closer, more familiar with local ecology and care, as needed for all.
Some might have seen me out with my net and jar in Caherslee, back in the day, collecting fossils, too, when layers were upheaved for new development in our neighborhood around the old Moore’s place, not far from some of our own strata, where I’ve lived in the Ohio valley, again since, and always enthralled biking to exploring along the coast, and among the ruins, into the hills and our mystic mountains there. I’ve continued being a naturalist, garden designer focused more in restoration and permaculture, and artist here, since, as well as organising community projects and events – nurtured by many there, family and those at CBS and the Green.
Ireland always inspires me and lends hope in our world. Thank You All at the Wetlands Center and community for keeping all this alive – in your Spirit also incarnate, if you will!!!
Beannachataí!
George Hardebeck
‘Seoirse!’