Events

Date: November 19, 2025
Time: 7:45 pm
Location: Botanic Gardens auditorium
Join our Dublin Tolka branch for an evening with John Coveney to discuss his experiences in the USA and the spring birds he encountered For further details or to be added to the mailing list contact; Rosena McShane (chair) Marie Sinnott (secretary) or Jim Dixon (treasurer) at dublinbirding@gmail.com

Date: November 18, 2025
Time: 8:00 pm
Location: Orchard House, Golf links road R95 XRC4
Join our Kilkenny branch for an evening discussing farming for Nature with Bryan Daniels. Bryan and Gail Daniels are a husband and wife team who are farming a 156ha farm in the south Kilkenny hills. With a stocking rate of 2.47LU/hectare and 272 cows, they run a conventional spring calving dairy system but they have a focus on animal welfare and soil welfare that sets them apart from other conventional farmers. They’ve fenced off the old groves that Bryan’s grandfather planted and sowed native trees and bushes into them. They often see buzzards, sparrowhawks, kestrels and kites.They’ve been in environmental schemes since 1997 and do traditional hedge laying almost every year as well as setting aside eighteen acres for traditional hay meadows each year. These help to provide cover and feed for ground nesting birds. Branch contacts: birdwatchkilkenny@gmail.com

Date: November 18, 2025
Time: 7:30 pm
Location: Cork Biodiversity Hub, Ballincollig P31 PX67
Join our Cork branch for an evening discussing Where do our Cuckoos go? NPWS Ranger Sam Bayley will host this talk and the Cork branch will host their AGM straight after the talk. For contact: Paul Moore, 087 690 8108 – paulwmoore01@gmail.com Conor O’Keeffe, 083 155 1514 – calabkilworth@gmail.com

Date: November 15, 2025
Time: 10:00 am
Location: Meet in the car park near the lighthouse
Join our Donegal branch for a visit to Fanad For contact: Chris Ingram (sec) 086 370 0243, chrisingram43@hotmail.com Tony Gallagher (chair) 087 383 2935, tonyg@sky.com

Date: November 15, 2025
Time: 10:00 am
Location: Kilcoole Train station https://maps.app.goo.gl/LXqDMsS6YFEmRYBF6
************************************ Due to the weather warnings this event is now cancelled 14.11.2025 ******************************* Our Wicklow branch invite you to join them for an outing to Kilcoole for "Kilcoole Through the Seasons - Winter" **** If a Met Eireann Orange or Red warning is in force at the location where and when a branch outing is due to take place, then members should assume that the outing is cancelled **** Branch contact details Clodagh Duffy or Joe Lennon at birdwatchwicklow@gmail.com

Date: November 15, 2025
Time: 11:00 am
Location: Meet at Liscannor Pier
Join our Clare branch for an outing to Clahane, Liscannor, Lahinch Marsh and Lahinch Bay. We hope to see Golden Plover, Gulls, Divers, Common Scoters and more. For Contact: Tom Lynch – 065 682 2145 tnaclynch@gmail.com Austin Cooney – 065 682 4804

Date: November 15, 2025
Time: 10:00 am
Location: Meet at the Mute Swan roost on north shore (GPS 53.466 -6.199)
Join our Dublin Fingal branch for A Guided walk in Broadmeadows Estuary, Sponsored by Fingal County Council Broadmeadows Estuary is a popular birdwatching site in Dublin, hosting a wide variety of birds including ducks, waders, and seabirds. It is a haven for waterfowl in autumn, winter, and spring, and you can expect to see Brent Geese, Shelduck, and numerous waders like Redshank and Greenshank. It also attracts divers such as Cormorants and Great Crested Grebes. For contact: Frank Prendergast (sec) 087 131 9884, frank.prendergast@tudublin.ie Paul Lynch (chair) 087 631 9209, paulllynch@gmail.com

Date: November 15, 2025
Time: 10:30 am
Location: Meet in reserve car park
Our Kildare branch invite you to join them for an outing to Wexford Wildfowl Reserve. Wexford Wildfowl Reserve is located on flat farmland on the North Slob which was walled off from Wexford Harbour and reclaimed from the sea. Over 250 bird species have been recorded on the Reserve, many of them Winter migrants from Greenland and Arctic Canada or from Scandinavia and Arctic Russia. Greenland White-fronted Geese are the most numerous and important goose species on the reserve and it is for them that it was established. They breed on the western lowlands of Greenland during the summer and winter in Ireland and Scotland from October to March. The North Slob holds about 5,500 or approximately 30% of the current world population of Greenland White-fronted Goose during these months. Find us on Facebook (@bwikildare) – birdwatchkildare@gmail.com Chairman: Neil J Bourke

Date: November 14, 2025
Time: 8:00 pm
Location: To Be Confirmed
Our Sligo branch are hosting an evening with Richard Nairn to discuss RJ Ussher: A Giant among Irish Naturalists For further details contact the branch Thelma Hunter (Sec) – 086 795 3349 sligobirdwatch@gmail.com Michael Bell (Chair) – 085 175 1000 nature.learn1@gmail.com