Take on Nature: Photographer probes our poor performance on plastic pollution

Tony Bailie

A MORNING walk along a favourite beach, the ridges in the sand echoing the ripples of tide, seaweed fronds limp on the rocks as redshanks, plovers and oystercatchers peck among them.

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Take on Nature: At this time of year the blackbird offers hope in the dark of night

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Tony Bailie's Take on Nature: A year of hiking in all five directions

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Red squirrel numbers surge in grounds of Northern Ireland's Mount Stewart estate

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Take On Nature: Redwing and fieldfare, winter thrushes that help turn the year

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Take on Nature: The joys and dangers of coddiwompling

Tony Bailie 22 Dec, 2018

THE Irish word seachrán has a subtle meaning that can be translated into English as either ‘wandering' or ‘straying'.

Take On Nature: Wren cruelly treated but entertainingly seen as Saint Stephen's betrayer

Stephen Colton 15 Dec, 2018

WATCHING a wren in pursuit of spiders work its way through what seemed like the impenetrable thorny leaves of a Berberis shrub, I thought of the bird's curious links with the festive season.

Take on Nature: New guide to the 'pads' of Co Down's Lecale District published

Tony Bailie 08 Dec, 2018

THERE has been much comment in recent days about Van Morrison and how he weaves place names and the memories they evoke for him into his song lyrics.

Take on Nature: In celebration of the kestrel, our smallest and most widespread falcon

Stephen Colton 01 Dec, 2018

THE windhover is an old name for one of Ireland's smallest and most widespread falcons, the kestrel, Falco tinnunculus.

Take on Nature: The noble false widow spins a web of intrigue

Tony Bailie 24 Nov, 2018

THANKFULLY Ireland is not a country known for its dangerous animal species – our native wolves have been extinct for more than 250 years, while bears have not been seen roaming the forests for nearly 12,000 years.

Belfast Zoo celebrates birth of endangered twin female red panda cubs

Marie Louise McConville 23 Nov, 2018

BELFAST Zoo is celebrating the arrival of twin endangered red panda cubs.

First Northern Ireland seabin installed in Bangor Marina

Marie Louise McConville 20 Nov, 2018

THE first seabin designed to trap plastics has been installed in Co Down.

Stephen Colton's Take on Nature: Whatever we do to 'the web', we do to ourselves

Stephen Colton 17 Nov, 2018

A RECENT report, The Living Planet Report 2018, written for the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) makes uncomfortable reading, identifying human behaviour as the cause for a fall in wildlife populations globally of 60 per cent between 1974 and 2014.

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