NATURE The Mayo branch of Birdwatch Ireland will host a dawn chorus walk this Sunday, May 8, in Enniscoe Woods
Outdoor Living
Waiting in the long grass
PETS’ CORNER Vet Conal Finnerty on the dangers of tick-borne Lyme disease and how best to protect your pet
Longer days offer time to contemplate
NATURE Michael Kingdon ponders an industrious queen, a motherly vixen and the possibility of pike taking waterbirds
Dirty aul’ sallies
NATURE Westport wildlife gardener Oliver Whyte on the wonderful life-giving world of the oft-underrated willow
Much to grumble about
NATURE Michael Kingdon’s garden is visited by an ill-tempered hedgehog and a suspicious stoat
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