Date: May 22, 2025 Time: 8:00 pm Location: Meet at the gates of Kilkenny Castle Join our Kilkenny branch for an evening listening to the sounds of the dusk.
Branch contacts:
birdwatchkilkenny@gmail.com or patandmarydurkin@gmail.com on 056 776 2130
Also listen to KCLR or Kilkenny City Community Radio for details.
Date: May 11, 2025 Time: 4:30 am Location: Jenkinstown Wood carpark Our Kilkenny branch invite you to join them for this years annual Dawn Chorus event.
Branch contacts:
birdwatchkilkenny@gmail.com or patandmarydurkin@gmail.com on 056 776 2130
Also listen to KCLR or Kilkenny City Community Radio for details.
Date: April 9, 2025 Time: 8:00 pm Location: The Club House, Patricks Street Kilkenny
Join our Kilkenny branch for an evening with Aine Lynch on the Tipperary Barn Owl Project.
This presentation will be followed by the AGM at circa 9.15pm
Branch contacts:
birdwatchkilkenny@gmail.com or patandmarydurkin@gmail.com 056 776 2130
Also listen to KCLR or Kilkenny City Community Radio for details.
Date: March 1, 2025 Time: 11:15 am Location: Meet at Kilkenny Castle gates at 10am for carpooling or 11.15am next to Centra, Killinick on the Rosslare Road Y35 FKP5
Our Kilkenny branch invite you to join them for an Outing to Lady's Island and Tacumshin Co Wexford
Tacumshin Lake is a coastal lagoon annexed as a priority habitat in the EU Habitats Directive. The area is a haven for wildfowl and wading birds and is one of the most important ornithological sites in Ireland.
For contact:
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Richard Dwyer (sec)
birdwatchkilkenny@gmail.com
Pat and Mary Durkin – patandmarydurkin@gmail.com
Ian McCullagh – ianrmccullagh@gmail.com
************************************* Saturday 22nd February 2025 ******************************* Our Clare branch invite you to join them for an outing to Lake Inchiquin, Lake Atedaun and Lake Muckanagh. Lots of ducks and waders…
***********************************************************************Sunday 16th February 2025************************************************************************************* Join our West Cork branch for a visit to Gearagh. This is a Full Day outing, bring a picnic. Wellies are recommended! For further details contact;…
Date: February 16, 2025 Time: 9:00 am Location: Met at Cartron Carpark Our Sligo branch invite you to join them for an outing to Inch Wildfowl Reserve, Burt, Co Donegal
Each year Inch Wildfowl Reserve is host to thousands of wintering wildfowl. This includes over three thousand Greylag geese and hundreds of whooper swans.
The site is also alive during the summer months as a wide variety of birds, including a particularly noisy colony of sandwich tern and black headed gulls, raise their young around the lake.
The site includes an 8km looped path, 3 carparks and a number of purpose built bird hides.
Contact details below;
Thelma Hunter (Sec) – 086 795 3349 sligobirdwatch@gmail.com
Michael Bell (Chair) – 085 175 1000 nature.learn1@gmail.com
Date: February 15, 2025 Time: 10:30 am Location: Meet at the Railway gates Our Kildare branch invite you to join them for a trip to the East Coast Nature Reserve in Newcastle, Co Wicklow.
Officially opened in 2009, the East Coast Nature Reserve is our largest reserve covering 92ha.
It forms part of the extensive Murrough Wetlands, an important coastal wetland complex which is designated as a Special Protection Area and Special Area of Conservation.
For contact:
Find us on Facebook (@bwikildare) – birdwatchkildare@gmail.com
Chairman: Neil J Bourke
Tom McCormack (events)
