I've just been standing outside watching visiting birds from the continent enjoying the seeds from one of our Alder trees. They work in a chattery team. Some at the top of the tree knock the tiny pine cones to the ground; other birds in the team on the ground have their turn in getting the…Read more This morning I awoke to the sound of birdsong…
forest flora and fauna
the improving ecology of hollywood: Ireland’s smallest continuous cover forest
An ecologist visits Hollywood, the smallest Close-to-Nature Continous cover forest in Ireland
The art of Sitka spruce twigs, mud and moss: now at VISUAL Carlow
This is an update of a post I wrote on 20 August 2013. Found abandoned on the floor of Hollywood last weekend, two works of art... __________________________ Update Summer 2016: Fellow 9 Stone Artist Annabel Konig has developed a moving project about nests as a symbol for our many ideas about 'home'. The work of…Read more The art of Sitka spruce twigs, mud and moss: now at VISUAL Carlow