Damien Enright has some interesting artistic and historic insight into the cave artworks created by early European.

There is so much to report in local nature, and so much worldwide that concerns us at home, writes Damien Enright

Last week I was putting up a new peanut feeder on our wooden balcony so as to enjoy watching the winter parade of birds from our dining table, when I disturbed a red admiral butterfly roosting under the balcony railing alongside a spindle, a sensible location unlikely to catch frost, but catching the early morning sun, writes Damien Enright.

THE yard is carpeted in bronze and chestnut beech leaves.