Michael Moynihan: Simple steps we should all follow to take birds under our wing

A silhouette of an owl on a window pane after the bird crashed into a window.  The silhouette was left by the bird's 'powder down' — a substance protecting growing feathers.

Great to see dolphins in the Lee a few days back. Quite apart from the sheer thrill of seeing maritime mammals cavorting in the water a few yards away from Cafe Velo and Callanan’s, there’s a wider significance to seeing them in that stretch of the river.

A couple of dozen yards further up the Lee was part of the river near Parliament Bridge where — when your columnist was much younger — you could hang over the wall and watch rats cavorting in raw sewage that poured out of a nearby pipe (it was the seventies. We had one TV channel).