LAST week, in glorious weather, we walked the headlands of west Cork. On Three Castles Head, beyond Barley Cove, we found lizards basking on the walls of the collapsed 15th century bawn, golden lizards, sharp-eyed and fast, disappearing between the stones at the hint of a footfall or shadow.

CLOUDS of butterflies and a haze of day-flying moths rose from beneath our feet as we walked the Seven Heads in west Cork on the glorious last day of May 2009.

Damien Enright on West Cork’s vast variety of wildlife.