NATURE Michael Kingdon’s garden is visited by an ill-tempered hedgehog and a suspicious stoat
Much to grumble about
Outdoor Living
Rolling sun walk and talk
CULTURE Guided walk to Rolling Sun spectacle at Boheh Stone to follow talk in Brackloon Community Centre this weekend
Clew Bay’s floating restaurant
NATURE Michael Kingdon watches a bank of seaweed shelter shoals of mullet – and a keen hunter
Making wonderful wildflower meadows
GARDENING Frank Steffens, head gardener at Drimbawn Garden, Tourmakeady, on what is involved in creating a wildflower meadow
A lament for frog song
NATURE Michael Kingdon on the annual ‘great frog migration’ that sees amorous males seek out bodies of water, and females
Build it and they will come
NATURE Barn owls will happily set up home in specially constructed nest boxes, as one Mayo man discovered
The joy of beekeeping
NATURE Alex Blackwell on the rewards of keeping bees and a new course set to start in Mayo this month
Small steps towards ‘real food’
GREEN LIVING McKinley Neal on the rewards of growing and harvesting your own food rather than relying on supermarkets
Bird expert to give talk in Westport this weekend
NATURE Noted ornithologist, educator and illustrator Gordon D’Arcy will focus on Mayo’s birds and how to draw them
When worlds collide
NATURE With lambing season underway, Michael Kingdon discusses the devastating consequences of bait poisoning by some farmers
The west’s wabi-sabi beauty
GARDENING The season’s changes prompt gardener Eriko Uehara Hopkinson to reflect on nature’s transient wonders