Éanna Ní Lamhna

Éanna Ní Lamhna

Contributor

Éanna Ní Lamhna, a biologist, environmentalist, broadcaster and and Irish Times contributor, answers readers' queries in Eye on Nature each week. She took the column over in 2021 from Ethna Viney, who had founded it 33 years earlier, in 1988.

Squirrel-proof bird feeder my eye. This squirrel is getting fatter and bigger on the bird food

Thuggish magpies, hummingbird moth tourists and a Latin American butterfly: Your notes and queries for Éanna Ní Lamhna

Did this hawk kill the pigeon in Dublin?

Eye On Nature: Éanna Ní Lamhna responds to your notes and queries on mushrooms, caterpillars and hawks

The brown bat’s ears are three-quarters the length of its head and body combined

Your notes and queries for Éanna Ní Lamhna

Dear Éanna, have I spotted a penguin in Portmarnock?

Our readers bring their pictures and queries to wildlife consultant Éanna Ní Lamhna

This creature sways menacingly from side to side looking like a small snake

Biologist and environmentalist Éanna Ní Lamhna answers your notes and queries

This red squirrel keeps visiting my flower box. It’s not doing what I thought it was

Eanna Ní Lamhna on reader encounters with a cheeky squirrel, a giant caterpillar and Ireland's only native lizard

Jolt from the blue: It’s a jellyfish − of course it stings

Your nature notes and queries for Eanna Ní Lamhna

Was this bird on our back porch one of the finch species?

Éanna Ní Lamhna answers readers’ queries about a bird, a moth and very small fly

Did a rare pair of cranes visit a Co Waterford garden?

Éanna Ní Lamhna responds to your notes and queries on robins, spiders and rare moths

Did children catch a baby shark on the beach in Skerries?

Eye on Nature: Éanna Ní Lamhna responds to your notes and queries on dragonflies, ladybirds and more

We’ve seen this insect around our house. Should we be worried?

Your notes and queries for Éanna Ní Lamhna

‘I was in my garden with my camera when three crows started to attack a buzzard’

Your wildlife notes and queries for Éanna Ní Lamhna

These crows may not survive because of how they look. Nature is red in tooth and claw

Eanna Ní Lamhna answers your notes and queries on crows, bees and more

This picture proves at least one successful breeding event is happening in 2026

Your notes and queries for Éanna Ní Lamhna

This very large fly has been hanging around my garden. Does it bite humans?

Éanna Ní Lamhna answers your queries on horseflies, thunderworms and busy bees

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