Our ‘homicidal heron’ seems to have defended his lunch prize

By Damien Enright

I was sitting under a tree on a sweltering day in the Czech Republic when my mobile rang and Kevin Hanly, on the line from west Cork, told me that he and his wife Beth had found a dead heron in our driveway when they’d crossed the lane from their house to feed our domestic heron, as they always do during our absence.