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Fantastic wildlife on our Discover Wildlife Weekend

Breaching Humpback Whale, Wildlife Tours Ireland

Ireland’s south coast delivered a very special wildlife experience for guests on our Discover Wildlife Weekend on the West Cork coast of Ireland’s Wild Atlantic Way last week. We kicked off on Friday evening with shore-based views of Humpback and Fin Whales blowing offshore. That was followed up with some….

The hidden creatures of the Glen — Glen of Aherlow nature trail

Treecreeper

Ireland’s Wildlife contributor Albert Nolan takes a walk around the woodland nature trail at the Glen of Aherlow in County Tipperary… and discovers a hidden world of wildlife. Dark, threatening clouds were rolling across the Galtees and spilling into the Glen of Aherlow as I pulled into the car park…..

Discover Wildlife Walk Saturday 03 May 2014

Little Egret

I’ll be running a Discover Wildlife Walk on the beautiful West Cork coastline around Rosscarbery on Saturday the 03 May. There are still places left for anyone who’d like to join us. We’ll be leaving the Celtic Ross Hotel in Rosscarbery at 10am, arriving back around 4pm. The cost of this full-day walk is €30 for adults….

Otters: a breathtaking wildlife experience

Flooded quarry

It was a day that I should have spent in the office working… but the forecast for the rest of the week was bad. This was the only weather window to get out around my local patch. Decision made I grabbed my binoculars and headed out. You never really know….

Wildlife, whatever the weather

Satellite Weather Map Ireland

Looking at weather maps lately has been a depressing affair. Ireland has been permanently obscured beneath a swirling, seething mass of rain and wind, and as usual our little patch of the south west coast seems to be getting more than its fair share of the onslaught. Yesterday was a….

A brush with Ireland’s urban foxes

Ireland’s Wildlife contributor Albert Nolan introduces us to Ireland’s urban foxes. The silence of Sunday morning was shattered by the harsh warning call of a pair of Magpies in the back garden. Despite the lingering affects of last night’s wine I decided it was worth the effort of drawing the….

New wildlife walks get you closer to nature

Guided wildlife and nature walks in West Cork, Ireland

I love wildlife, and I love walking. Best of all I love walking where I can watch wildlife and share what I see with other interested people. It was on one of these wildlife walks on the stunning West Cork coastline (see the photo — no exaggeration) that I had….

Butterflies… and so much more!

Brow Head, West Cork

  Against all odds a mini-heatwave seemed to have descended on Ireland. The sun blazed out of a sky for once devoid of cloud as we met up in the car park at Barleycove beach in West Cork. It was early June and we were looking  for butterflies. Our target….

Unexpected wildlife hotspot: the washing line!

Washing Line Wildlife -- you never know what you might see!

  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….