NATURE Noted ornithologist, educator and illustrator Gordon D’Arcy will focus on Mayo’s birds and how to draw them
Bird expert to give talk in Westport this weekend
Outdoor Living
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
Addicted to the e-bike
GREEN LIVING Pat Fahy on all the benefits he’s been reaping from owning an electric bike
Clew Bay, the environment and our future
ENVIRONMENT Alex Blackwell on how one organisation, the Clew Bay Oyster Co-operative, is helping to protect Clew Bay
Woodpeckers wing their way back west
NATURE Michael Kingdon rejoices in the return of the greater spotted woodpecker to Mayo and the west of Ireland
The wonders of our wildlife garden
IN THE GARDEN Clew Bay Garden Trail member Oliver Whyte on the rewards of creating a refuge for nature at Sandyhill, Wesport
The fascinating, formidable Ferox
NATURE Michael Kingdon on the lure of the Ferox trout – bigger than your average brown, with an apex appetite
Beached bounty from afar
NATURE Michael Kingdon meets some well-travelled creatures and exotic flotsam on a Mayo beach
Why plant a tree? Why keep a tree?
GARDENING Clew Bay Garden Trail member, tree surgeon Stewart Boles on trees in the garden – and on the roadside
Trading places and changing tunes
NATURE As the season changes, Michael Kingdon watches on as different birds stop by the Lough Carra lakeside