Events

Date: September 6, 2025
Time: 10:30 am
Location: Meet at base of Nimmo's Pier
Join our Galway branch for a walk along Nimmo’s Pier For contact: Find us on Facebook or to be added to a mailing list just pop a line to the below; Cyril Manning (chair) – cyril.a.manning@gmail.com Bláithín Kennedy (sec) – blaithin.kennedy@gmail.com

Date: September 2, 2025
Time: 8:00 pm
Location: The Graduate Pub, Killiney
Our South Dublin branch invite you to join them for an evening with Robert O'Leary to discuss the array of birdlife on and about the River Dodder. For contact: Mary Daly (sec) 086 1586 330, secretary@southdublinbirds.com

Date: August 31, 2025
Location: Branch will send via mailing list
Our West Cork branch will be having a Pelagic trip on August 31st Details to be announced via their mailing list and West Cork website. For further details contact; Fiona O’Neill – 086 813 0650 – secretary@birdwatchirelandwestcork.ie Nicholas Mitchell – 087 121 5256 – treasurer@birdwatchirelandwestcork.ie

Date: August 24, 2025
Time: 11:30 am
Location: Contact branch for details
Our West Cork branch invite you to join them for a family event in Timoleague Educational Gardens. Nicholas Mitchell will lead this trip which is expected to run from 11.30am to 2pm. For further details contact; Fiona O’Neill – 086 813 0650 – secretary@birdwatchirelandwestcork.ie Nicholas Mitchell – 087 121 5256 – treasurer@birdwatchirelandwestcork.ie

Date: August 23, 2025
Location: Contact branch for details
Join our Meath branch for a talk during National Heritage week This event is a visit to a Sand Martin nesting wall in Trim Co Meath. Please see page 33 of the summer issue of "Wings" for more information about this exciting project. Time to be confirmed To Register see birdwatchirelandmeath.com Branch contact; Paul Gallagher 086 086 9760

Date: August 21, 2025
Time: 8:00 pm
Location: Tullahought Community Centre E32 W597
Join our Kilkenny branch to learn all about our native birds and those who visit Tullahought's hinterland through a talk delivered by Ian McCullagh, Chairman of BirdWatch Kilkenny This event is in conjunction with Heritage week 2025! Branch contacts: birdwatchkilkenny@gmail.com or patandmarydurkin@gmail.com on 056 776 2130

Date: August 19, 2025
Time: 7:00 pm
Location: Meet at car park closest to Merrion Gates
Our South Dublin branch invite your to join them for an outing to Sandymount Strand to see the roosting Terns. For contact: Mary Daly (sec) 086 1586 330, secretary@southdublinbirds.com

Date: August 19, 2025
Time: 7:00 pm
Location: BirdWatch Ireland's East Coast Nature Reserve, Sea Road, Newcastle, Co. Wicklow
Join experts from BirdWatch Ireland on an evening nature walk around the East Coast Nature Reserve on the north Co. Wicklow coast, where you will learn about the special birds, insects, mammals, plants and other wildlife that call this wonderful natural space home. This event is funded by the Heritage Council's Heritage Organisation Support Fund, as part of BirdWatch Ireland's Communicating the Wonders of Irish Wildlife 2025-26 project.

Date: August 16, 2025
Time: 10:00 am
Location: Meet at the Pier
Join our Donegal branch for a visit to Dunfanaghy. For contact: Chris Ingram (sec) 086 370 0243, chrisingram43@hotmail.com Tony Gallagher (chair) 087 383 2935, tonyg@sky.com