Some of the most colourful birds that can be seen around Clane are the finches, and many of them are attracted to garden bird feeders in the winter…
Category Archives: Wild About Clane
Wild About Clane Photo Competition
In 2009 Clane Tidy Towns ran a “Wild About Clane” photo competition. The independent judges have met and after considerable deliberations the results are in…Clane Tidy Towns are delighted to announce that the winners of the recent photo competition are Aine O’Neill, Rua Rogan and Jessica Doran for the younger entries and Barbra Hackett, Ger Perdisatt and Matt Hayes among the adults…
Birds of Prey…
You don’t have to go very far to see amazing birds of prey in Ireland: there are three species of raptor that can regularly be seen in and around our town…
Thrushes…
After the swallow-like birds head off to Africa, did you know that other birds fly into Clane to ‘enjoy’ our winter weather?
Most of our winter visitors come from the Arctic, places where the winter weather is extremely harsh. Many of these visitors are thrushes – usually medium-sized brownish birds with spotted bellies – and several types of thrushes can be found in Clane…
Swallow-like birds…
There are four swallow-like birds that migrate to Ireland for the summer, and all four can be seen in and around Clane. The swallow, house martin, sand martin and swift all make the tremendous journey to breed here all the way from Sub-Saharan and Southern Africa…