If someone had said years ago that one day, someone will open a coffee shop at the top of Black Mountain, you’d have told them to get their head checked. Cafes are for towns and busy streets, the mountain top is for – well, a few scraggly teenagers and their dogs. No one else set […]
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Coffee shop opens on top of the Black Mountain
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Bring the sweet bird song back to your garden
If only workmen weren’t so damned professional nowadays, our birdlife would be in better shape. When Dúlra was a youngster, a starling nested under a slate at the left-hand side of his bedroom window, and a house sparrow nested in a gap between the gutter board and a slate at the right-hand side of the […]
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Nature bestows its bounty on our birdlife
MAYBE it’s something to do with growing older, with the knowledge incrementally increasing with each day that you’ll not be here forever. Because recently, the sheer beauty of our surroundings has blown Dúlra away. It’s been a fantastic summer with the sun shining most of the time, but rarely producing the sweltering days that make […]
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Jane’s bird in the hand is a very trusting little fella
A robin’s not just for Christmas – they’re our favourite bird all year around. And as this picture shows, it’s no wonder. Jane McComb is a keen gardener and over the period of a year managed to build up a relationship with her garden robin. Every day she offered it some food, often dropping titbits […]
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Put some money in the meteor if you’re waiting on this shower
Dúlra’s got a crick in his neck today after spending an hour looking up at the sky, eyes stretched wide, waiting for a shooting star. He saw only two on Monday night – which on the one hand was a little disappointing, but on the other hand a rare treat. The meteor shower happens at […]
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Sometimes even Dúlra can call it wrong
A bit like Ace Ventura, Dúlra often gets an emergency call when a bird or animal is in trouble. At this time of years it’s inevitably about a young bird. If only he had a pound for every time he heard someone say, “it can’t fly, I think it has a broken wing.” Truth is […]
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