Collie Ennis
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Podcast Appearances
And it's just, again, we left a bit of space for nature.
We managed to habitat with nature in mind.
And it's really walking.
No, but it's stuff that you'd see maybe in the hills or around Wicklow or down in the Burren.
But when you start to see it in the city centre,
That's what really excites me.
We're seeing frogs back in Trinity hopping around the front square.
We've got newts.
We've got dragonflies that are freaking students out flying around the path in the summer.
That's fantastic.
Like compared to like 20 years ago.
Yeah, so a starling or a similar board will go down to an area where fish have spawned.
And when fish spawn, they spawn en masse.
Or like sticklebacks, for example, they make little nests, which is really cool to watch as well.
What's a stickleback?
Stickleback is a small, they used to call them pinkines back in the day.
They're small little native fish that used to be super common.
And the males have the red kind of underbelly and they have spikes on their back.
The dog pond in the Phoenix Park still has a great population of them.
But say Mr. Starling is down at the dog pond and it's a hot day and he goes for a wash in the spring and it washes his feathers and washes his legs.