Outdoor Living

PETS’ CORNER Vet Conal Finnerty on the dangers of tick-borne Lyme disease and how best to protect your pet

NATURE Michael Kingdon ponders an industrious queen, a motherly vixen and the possibility of pike taking waterbirds

NATURE Westport wildlife gardener Oliver Whyte on the wonderful life-giving world of the oft-underrated willow

NATURE Michael Kingdon’s garden is visited by an ill-tempered hedgehog and a suspicious stoat

CULTURE Guided walk to Rolling Sun spectacle at Boheh Stone to follow talk in Brackloon Community Centre this weekend

NATURE Michael Kingdon watches a bank of seaweed shelter shoals of mullet – and a keen hunter

GARDENING Frank Steffens, head gardener at Drimbawn Garden, Tourmakeady, on what is involved in creating a wildflower meadow

NATURE Michael Kingdon on the annual ‘great frog migration’ that sees amorous males seek out bodies of water, and females

NATURE Barn owls will happily set up home in specially constructed nest boxes, as one Mayo man discovered

NATURE Alex Blackwell on the rewards of keeping bees and a new course set to start in Mayo this month