Get closer to the wild side of Ireland
The Secret Life of the Shannon is a brand new two-part documentary exploring the amazing life on Ireland’s iconic River Shannon. It airs this coming Sunday the 26 May at 6:30pm on RTÉ One as part of RTÉ Goes Wild season. The second episode will air the following week, same time, same place. Credit where [...]
Brian Caffrey, co-ordinator of BirdTrack for Irish partner organisation, Birdwatch Ireland, introduces this new tool for recording and managing your personal bird records, and contributing to a body of data that helps inform bird conservation on a local, regional, national and international level. BirdTrack (www.birdtrack.net) is an exciting project that looks at migration movements and [...]
Ireland’s Wildlife is delighted to feature The Calendar Road on the site in collaboration with Podcasts.ie. In this delightful monthly podcast your guide Sinéad McClure takes you on a stroll along the “Calendar Road” , a typical rural Irish byway to explore the seasonal changes and introduce you to the wildlife she encounters along the [...]
Every year the Irish coastline plays host some of the most important breeding seabird colonies in Europe. Many of these sites are surprisingly accessible to people along coastal paths or on off-shore islands like the Skelligs and the Saltees. Thousands of people visit these sites to enjoy the awe inspiring spectacle of thousands of gannets, [...]
So… the arrival of the Zoom H2N audio recorder for review at IWHQ has rekindled a question I’ve been pondering since setting up Ireland’s Wildlife a few years back — should I include a weekly / monthly audio podcast in the mix of content? I’m thinking something short… initially anyway. Would include a mix of [...]
Irish farmers are intelligent people… and many of the farmers I meet on a day-to-day basis have at least some understanding of the wildlife they share their land with. I live in a farming community, and much of the wildlife I encounter every day is living on in and around farmland. I can’t in good conscience [...]
Check out this AMAZING Peregrine Falcon photograph posted to the Ireland’s Wildlife group on Flickr by Neil O’Reilly. A more than worthy shot to kick off our regular Wednesday “Wildlife Photograph of the Week” slot. Photograph All rights reserved by Neil O’Reilly If you’d like to see one of your photographs featured in our “Photo of the Week” [...]
I’ve just found out that Vanguard has slashed the price of its impressive ED binoculars, AND is offering a further £20 cash back between now and the end of July through UK retailers. The offer officially runs from 01 May to 31 July and the cash-back deal applies to all models in the Endeavor ED [...]
Hanging out washing is an occupational hazards of working from a home office. Working from home invariably means I’m around when the washing machine finishes its spin cycle. And in most Irish households if the weather is dry there’s always one overriding imperative: to get the washing hung out as soon as humanly possible! [...]
One of the most appealing things about nature is that you never really know what to expect. Every time you venture outdoors there’s a sense of heightened anticipation as you wonder what you might encounter. In Ireland at least that sense of the unknown tends to include the weather. This morning, for example, it was [...]
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