Mute Swans preening themselves at the water’s edge (left); one of the many apple trees laden with fruit in the old walled orchard at Hope Castle (middle); the downy seed head of a Rosebay Willowherb which has colonised what used to be a sand bunker on the former 9-hole golf course near Hope Castle and Lough Muckno (right).  

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