THE biodiversity crisis is highlighted in many ways, whether it's through a decline in our pollinator population, a plant species disappearing, or by the sudden population surge of a pest whose natural predators are either extinct or in very short supply.
NOISY, pre-roost communal crow wanderings, suggestive of some ancient corvid ritual beyond our grasp, occur a little later now as the birds respond to noticeably brighter evenings.
DURING the week I heard Merle Haggard's song If We Make It Through December, written and first performed by the American musician and his band in 1973.
ENTERING year's end, and the official start to winter, our weather has growled only briefly so far with a couple of sharp frosts and reluctant cold winds.
NOW in early November, we begin our journey through the gloomy, shadowy days of early winter, days our ancestors prepared for in those harvest celebrations and sacred gatherings at the festival of Samhain, summer's end.
A SECOND £750,000 Living Places and Spaces Fund has been launched by Infrastructure Minister John O’Dowd to help support communities in creating greener and more sustainable spaces.