James O'Neill Reading your Swift tweets is one of the highlights of my day, James! Must be so cool to be able to monitor them so closely. I'd give anything for a pair of them nesting in our house.

A short bird ringing session on Cape Clear Cape Clear Bird Obs this morning allowed for an excellent comparison between the features of wild rock doves (left) and a domesticated (and very lost) homing pigeon (right).

Travelling between Cork and Fermanagh to do some work at a swift colony, I spotted the extraordinary #swift mural by James Kirwan in Mountmellick. Wowza!!

This year our tagged #seabirds are named after / by City of New Bedford schools! Here are some of our long distance travelers so far. Great shearwaters Hathaway hanging out on the east side of the Atlantic and Sailor foraging on the Grand Banks! #trackseabirds #birds #BirdsOfTwitter

The folly of planting rows of spruce on a riverbank. Shallow roots & soft ground sees the whole lot brought down in one go. This on a pearl mussel river in Co. Cork.