Stephen Colton's Take On Nature: Less is more on Lough Erne in November

Stephen Colton

NOW on the cusp of winter, tens of thousands of wildfowl and waders have settled across the island to feed in loughs, lush fields and along our bountiful tidal mudflats until the urge to breed will draw them northwards once again next spring.

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Marlon Gonzalez, Associated Press 18 Nov, 2020

Hurricane Iota has battered Nicaragua with screeching winds and pounding surf, forcing tens of thousands of people from their homes along the same stretch of the Caribbean coast that was devastated by an equally powerful hurricane two weeks ago.

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Gabriela Selser, Associated Press 16 Nov, 2020

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Take On Nature: Cormorant's links to Irish Cailleach and the darkening months

Stephen Colton 14 Nov, 2020

THE sight of the dark, conspicuous figure of a cormorant, perched on a rock in Lower Lough Erne with its wings outstretched, seemed the perfect symbol for November's bare and bleak countenance.

Tony Bailie's Take on Nature: Trekking a 250-million-year-old trail

Tony Bailie 07 Nov, 2020

IF YOU decide to go hiking in the Pyrenees you would have to get to the south of France or north of Spain, to trek in the Himalayas a journey to either Bhutan, China, India, Nepal or Pakistan would be required, and if the Andes took your fancy then a flight to South America would be inevitable.