Date: October 15, 2025 Time: 7:45 pm Location: Botanic Gardens auditorium Our Dublin Tolka branch are hosting a talk in the Botanic Gardens auditorium, speaker to be announced.
More details closer to the date.
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: October 14, 2025 Location: Ashford Community & Heritage Centre A67 DH34 Our Wicklow branch invite you to join them for an evening with Mr. Joe Lennon to discuss "Chasing the Griffon - an Andalucian Birding Odyssey"
Admission is free, a voluntary contribution to cover the cost of the room hire would be appreciated.
Branch contact details
Clodagh Duffy or Joe Lennon at birdwatchwicklow@gmail.com
If you are not a member of BirdWatch Ireland, we would encourage you, please, to take out an annual membership to support the charity's vital conservation work. You can find full details by clicking this link https://birdwatchireland.ie/get-involved/
Date: October 12, 2025 Time: 11:00 am Location: Meet at Mizen Vision carpark Our West Cork Branch invite you to join them for an outing to Mizen Head to look for Autumn migrants.
This outing will be lead by Jez Simms
For further details contact;
Fiona O’Neill – 086 813 0650 – secretary@birdwatchirelandwestcork.ie
Nicholas Mitchell – 087 121 5256 – treasurer@birdwatchirelandwestcork.ie
Date: October 12, 2025 Time: 10:00 am Location: Meet in the car park of Waterstown Park, Palmerstown. D20 TR94 Our South Dublin branch invite you to join them for a trip to Waterstown Park, Palmerstown.
Just south of Dublin’s famous Strawberry Beds and near Palmerstown village, Waterstown Park was a family farm until the 1980s. The park is covered by the Liffey Valley Special Amenity Area Order and is one of the most ecologically important parks in Dublin. Close to Farmleigh Estate and the Phoenix Park as the crow flies, it consists of eight distinct habitats including woodland, wet grassland and mature hedgerows. The park is home to 300 species of plants, animals, birds and insects.
Contact Mary Daly (Sec) 086 1586330 secretary@southdublinbirds.com
Date: October 11, 2025 Time: 10:00 am Location: Meet on middle of the causeway on Causeway Road, North Bull Island. https://maps.app.goo.gl/hT5sQsdyqJvs498U8 Our Wicklow branch invite you to join them for an outing to Outing to North Bull Island, Co Dublin
BAD WEATHER PROTOCOL: 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: October 7, 2025 Time: 6:30 pm Location: Fingal Library Skerries K34 PN56 Our Dublin Fingal branch invite you for an evening with our very own Paul Lynch.
Paul will discuss Fingals wide variety of Winter birds.
For contact:
Frank Prendergast (sec) 087 131 9884, frank.prendergast@tudublin.ie
Paul Lynch (chair) 087 631 9209, paulllynch@gmail.com
Date: October 7, 2025 Time: 8:00 pm Location: The Graduate Pub, Killiney Join our South Dublin branch for an evening with Mark Carmody to discuss tips for Wildlife Photography.
For contact:
Mary Daly (sec)
086 1586 330, secretary@southdublinbirds.com
Date: October 5, 2025 Time: 10:30 am Location: Meeting at Lough Neagh Discovery Centre Join our Sligo branch fro an outing to Oxford Island Nature Reserve on the shores of Lough Neagh Co Armagh.
Leaving Carton carpark Sligo at 8am
For more details please contact the branch,
Thelma Hunter (Sec) – 086 795 3349 sligobirdwatch@gmail.com
Michael Bell (Chair) – 085 175 1000 nature.learn1@gmail.com
