BioVeracityFLOWER WATCH
What’s in flower?
Photograph a flower you can see today. Note its colour and shape. “Small purple flower” is a perfectly good start.
Add what you noticedA place worth noticing
Churchtown
A living record written by soil, season, and the people who notice them.
Garden idea · illustration, not a local recordA shared nature story
The Living Memory of Churchtown
Explore photographs and observations shared here. Follow a subject, a setting or a season.
Demo collection · no observations have been collected.
Your first chapter
A story still to be recorded.
The flowers on your walk. The birds in the trees. A photograph today becomes something to look back on next season.
On the live page, photographs and sounds will appear here after a custodian has reviewed them. This pitch contains no local sightings.
See how contributing would work ↓Add your photograph or sound
Demonstration only. This preview does not collect files or personal details.
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Choose a moment
A flower, a bird, a sound or a small change. You do not need to know its name.
- 02
Add a little context
A date, a place and a few words. An adult shares contributions from a school group.
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A custodian takes a look
They check what can be shared before it joins the public collection. Suggested names still need a human check.
01
Find a little patch
A planter, a school garden or the flowers on your walk. Start somewhere you can visit again.
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Add what you notice
Take a photograph. Add the date and a few words. You don’t need to know its name.
03
Come back and look again
What’s flowering now? Who’s visiting? Small observations build a story through the seasons.
A closer look, close to home
A whole world between
the flowers.
You don’t have to be an expert. Pick one small place, watch for a few minutes and share what caught your eye.
INSECT VISITORS
Who stops here?
Watch a flower without touching the insects. Was anything visiting? If you are unsure what it was, say so.
Add what you noticedTHE SAME LITTLE PATCH
What changed?
Return to the same spot next week. Take another photograph and compare. Different weather or time of day may affect what you see.
Add what you noticedIdeas informed by the All-Ireland Pollinator Plan. These are invitations to observe, not claims about species already recorded here. Suggested names still need a human check.
For schools & local groups
Start with the flowers
outside your door.
A class can follow one planter through the year. A teacher or another responsible adult shares the group’s observations, and a local custodian checks them before they appear here.
Keep the attention on nature.
- Share flowers, leaves and wildlife, without children’s faces, names or voices.
- Use a group credit, with permission. Children do not need accounts.
- Keep home addresses and nest locations private. Stay on permitted paths and leave wildlife undisturbed.
The public collection contains reviewed contributions. School participation and tile locations are agreed with the adults responsible for each place.
A window into the neighbourhood
We care about Churchtown.
Flowers. Trees. Birds. Butterflies. A simple invitation to notice what is around us.
The idea is to make the local SuperValu a starting point for Churchtown’s nature story: connecting nearby schools, gardens and neighbours through small places to observe.
This is a proposal. Store involvement, participating schools and tile locations have not been agreed.
Support would help people take part; it would never decide what their observations say.
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A little care behind the scenes.
The custodian looks after the collection: reviewing contributions, keeping working material private and choosing what to share. Sign-in will open if the project goes ahead.
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