Irish citizen science project needs seal sightings
Via Ireland’s Wildlife: A new research project at the Galway Mayo Institute of Technology (GMIT) in partnership with the National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS) is looking for public input…
Category: mammals
”the most sane fringe phenomena.”
The current New Yorker features a piece by Brooke Jarvis on the maybe-extinct, maybe-not Tasmanian tiger, or thylacine. About fifteen years ago I had a cryptozoological phase, with occasional relapses.…
Review of “Life Ascending”, Nick Lane, Eurotimes July 2009
This fine book on evolution was well reviewed at the time and won the 2010 Royal Society prize for science books. Here is my review from Eurotimes . Or rather…
“Nature and culture have been replaced by landscape and literature”: Mark Cocker on the “New Nature Writing”, New Statesman, June 2015
I have previously cited this essay by Mark Cocker on the “New Nature Writing” as exemplified by Robert Macfarlane and Helen McDonald. Have been re-reading it and find, as often…
What is happening to our hedgehogs?
Fortunately hedgehogs continue to visit my own garden… difficult to estimate as I have not perhaps been there as much after dark compared to last year, but certainly a presence.…
Ernest P. Walker’s dedication “Walker’s Mammals of the World”
To the MAMMALS, GREAT AND SMALL, who contribute so much to the welfare and happiness of man, another mammal, but receive so little in return, except blame, abuse, and extermination.
Ceramics from Joe & Anne Kane, The Studio, Moyra Rectory, Falcarragh, Donegal
(edit 30th August 2018 – for an atmospheric shot of one of Joe Kane’s creations see here. For a post on and photo of Ray High Cross, very close to the Kane’s…
Séamus Sweeney 