12 Aug 2019 Busy Standing Still… Posted by Eric Dempsey, With 0 Comments, Eric reflects on a new birding experience of 'standing still'... ... Read more
05 Nov 2018 He shall not hear the Bittern cry… Posted by Eric Dempsey, With 15 Comments, Eric reflects on an extraordinary experience of a Bittern in Ireland ... Read more
25 Sep 2018 A Very Special Day… Posted by Eric Dempsey, With 3 Comments, Eric recounts a very special day from 1979... ... Read more
12 Aug 2018 A Letter to Pope Francis… Posted by Eric Dempsey, With 2 Comments, Eric writes a letter to Pope Francis before his visit to Ireland... ... Read more
12 Jul 2018 A conversion on the road to Laois… Posted by Eric Dempsey, With 1 Comments, Eric describes how an encounter with small, dull butterflies have converted him to being a Butterflier... ... Read more
18 Apr 2018 On what you might say to your young birding self… Posted by Eric Dempsey, With 8 Comments, Eric reflects on 40 years of birding and what advice his older self might give to his young birding self starting off... ... Read more
22 Mar 2018 On unexpected global wanderers… Posted by Eric Dempsey, With 0 Comments, Eric reflects on the unexpected global wanderings of Glaucous Gulls, a species he has encountered on three continents over the past three mo ... Read more
18 Mar 2018 On True Rarities… Posted by Eric Dempsey, With 2 Comments, Eric speaks on encountering true rarities on a recent trip to Hong Kong...species are are truly rare in a global sense of the word... ... Read more
27 Feb 2018 The Beast from the East Posted by Eric Dempsey, With 1 Comments, Eric reflects on the impacts extreme winter weather can have on birds and remembers some winters of the past... ... Read more
06 Nov 2017 On November Sea Songs… Posted by Eric Dempsey, With 2 Comments, Eric enjoys a moment when the November seas of Wicklow came alive with song ... Read more