BirdWatch Ireland’s Irish Garden Bird Survey has returned for the 33rd consecutive winter. The survey is very simple and asks people to spend a short amou.
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Up to half a dozen parakeets have become regular visitors to a garden in Dublin.
Cathal Mac an Bheatha has been filming the green ring-necked parakeets on feeders in his garden in Fairview for the past 12 months.
The species, which is native to Africa and Asia, is present in large numbers in many European cities, including London where the population has soared.
Parakeets established a base in the English capital s parks after captive birds escaped or were released into the wild decades ago.
Ring-necked parakeet feeding in a back garden in Fairview, Co Dublin
Last year, the species was recorded for the first time in the Irish Garden Bird Survey - the biggest and longest-running survey of its kind in Ireland.
Covid disruption has helped us reconnect with nature
Confined to our houses and localities because of lockdowns, we have learned to observe and appreciate beauty in our gardens
Fri, 08 Jan, 2021 - 15:39
Ray Ryan
THE disruption caused to normal living by the Covid-19 pandemic has helped people to reconnect with nature in their own gardens.
Observing birds that come and go through the changing seasons has become a distraction from the loss, isolation and worries that the virus has caused.
The gadding pace of modern life in pre-pandemic Ireland has slowed down and allowed people of all ages to step back and view birdlife and all the wonder around it.