Outdoor Living

NATURE Michael Kingdon ponders on the dramatic decrease in moths, once so plenty in Mayo’s nightscape

NATURE Westport Tidy Towns Biodiversity Officer takes a look at the vegetation on the Mall river in Westport

NATURE As August sets in, Michael Kingdon wanders through the woods, where new life is growing stronger

NATURE Michael Kingdon contends with a four-legged thief in the night, and other unwanted visitors

NATURE Michael Kingdon saves a hedgehog in a bind, a goldcrest in a tangle and eight moorehen chicks in a quandary

NATURE Michael Kingdon witnesses a life-and-death drama in miniature, on the needles of a small Scots pine

GREEN LIVING We all need to be doing regular clean-ups, even if we are not personally responsible for the rubbish

NATURE Michael Kingdon enjoys spring sights at Lough Carra, from warblers to mallards, to ants at work

NATURE Country Sights and Sounds’ true author is revealed, while a blackcap takes centre stage in the dawn chorus

NATURE John Shelley remembers how his love for nature began and was fostered during his childhood