“The past, is never dead. It’s not even past,” declared William Faulkner in Requiem for a Nun.

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VOCABULARY and nature constantly evolve. 

This is the last of Dick Warner’s hugely popular columns following his death last Friday. Here, he discusses birds’ nests and eggs

The real meaning of the word amateur has nothing to do with qualifications or where your income comes from, writes Dick Warner. 

I have a friend and neighbour who, many years ago, planted trees on most of his farm. He now has a large mixed woodland and it’s right beside an even larger one, Donadea Forest Park, which is an old demesne wood now managed by Coillte, writes Dick Warner.

Dick Warner shares his techniques for Spring cleaning your garden pond.

I RECENTLY went on a short holiday to Croatia, the first time I’ve visited this rather wonderful country, writes Dick Warner.

This week Dick Warner ponders over the paradoxical deciduous larch tree.

A major reason for planting the trees was to try and create a habitat for woodland plants and animals, writes Dick Warner

I’m not going to surrender in the fox wars, writes Dick Warner.

Spring has definitely arrived in the cold corner of the country that I live in, writes Dick Warner

I’ve been fishing in the River Barrow recently and catching quite a lot of dace, writes Dick Warner. 

When I discovered an Australian flatworm in my garden I had very mixed feelings, says Dick Warner. 

I’m just back from a winter escape to Malaga in the south of Spain. Soon after I arrived I heard an unfamiliar bird sound, says Dick Warner.

EVERY year in Ireland we get a phoney spring, says Dick Warner. 

Bones can reveal a lot about the animals we once shared the planet with, the ones humans never got to meet and even a lot about the human race we are as yet unaware of, says Dick Warner.

Irish wild birds have acquired some very exotic tastes, writes Dick Warner.

Dick Warner notices that hen harriers seem to be much rarer these days

Dick Warner indulges us with the details of his latest fishing obsession.

Did you know reindeer once roamed across our rolling greens fields? At least according to copywriter Robert L May. Dick Warner has more.

Dick Warner takes a look at the importance of the Winter Solstice to nature and its wildlife.

The biggest problem for wrens in winter is keeping warm, writes Dick Warner

The other day I found myself looking into the eyes of a large, beautiful and rather unusual fish, writes Dick Warner.

True Irish curlews are in serious trouble and may face imminent extinction, writes Dick Warner

THROUGH the late summer and autumn a cock pheasant has been feeding in the field outside my study. He’s a big bird with a long tail and fairly elderly, writes Dick Warner.

Mobbing is an interesting piece of behaviour and it’s not confined to birds, writes Dick Warner

SOME people find autumn a bit depressing because it signals that summer is over and winter isn’t too far away, writes Dick Warner. 

According to a report in Science News, Europe’s oldest living thing is a tree growing in the Pindus Mountains of Northern Greece.

Last winter, my small flock of hens was killed by a feral tom cat, says Dick Warner. 

Slugs are not popular animals, writes Dick Warner

ON a cold day at the end of April, I was out in my garden feeling mildly depressed, writes Dick Warner

‘April brings the sweet spring showers, On and on, for hours and hours.’ Lines written by Michael Flanders in ‘A Song of the Weather’ in 1956, writes Dick Warner

EASTER is the spring festival, writes Dick Warner