Outdoor Living

Our birds are fighting epidemics too

NATURE John Shelley on the threat that Trichonomiasis and Bird flu continue to pose to many birds, including finches and starlings

NATURE Pat Fahy on how to attract garden birds into your patch with the right food and the right conditions

NATURE John Shelley’s attempts to make a blackbird a cocooning companion end dramatically

NATURE Pat Fahy on the magical properties that Celtic folklore attributes to some of our wild plants at this time of year

NATURE Fishermen are reporting increased sightings of tuna in our waters, as they return to fish on scrad

NATURE Pat Fahy on the threat that Donald Trump’s reelection would pose to the environment

NATURE John Shelley encounters a magnificent young red-deer stag, eager to impress at the start of the rutting season

NATURE Pat Fahy on how our hedgerows help to sustain wildlife through the harsher autumn and winter months

NATURE John Shelley discovers his visiting hedgehog now has two inquisitive little hoglets in tow

NATURE Gardeners often call compost ‘black gold’ because of its value in improving garden soil

NATURE John Shelley spends a day angling for deep-sea mackerel, pollock and more out in Cleggan Bay