An eerie silence in the garden.
Early today I saw a rustle in the patch of grass in the middle of the garden, and a cat emerged, lethargically fleeing. Probably not coincidentally, there were far fewer…
Tag: birds
Kingfishers
The last time I saw Kingfishers I saw was a little over two years ago, in the West Bank section of Nore Linear Park. In former years, a Kingfisher in Booterstown…
Happy International Day for Biological Diversity!
The UN, no less, have declared 22nd May to be International Day for Biological Diversity! Normally I am pretty sceptical of these kinds of “official” days for this and that. However, they…
Bird feeding notes late May
Not quite a month after the April update … some miscellaneous thoughts and observations Apples definitely are out of the season for garden birds. Goldfinches have largely disappeared whereas about…
Coots
For some reason I perceived coots as rather timid, retiring birds. Bird guides frequently describe birds as “shy” (or “not shy”, or “not that shy”) and while there is an…
Where are the magpies?
Since getting back into birding, the daily species count in my garden is usually in the low to mid teens. But there is one notable absentee – the magpie. The…
Little egrets
In the last few years I have begun to re-engage with birding after a long hiatus. I wouldn’t quite say I lost interest in my teens; more than birding became…
Séamus Sweeney 