If you have a long-flowering meadow, don't mow yet! Wait until September to let the seeds drop, and leave some areas uncut for overwintering insects.
August's seeds feed next year's bees!
@COSullivanTD Good. I hope you succeed. Of the birds you mention I reckon yellowhammer is declining the fastest of all, and could be extinct in Ireland quite soon.
@FintanKelly_ Coillte has always been motivated only by money with no care at all for nature. Coillte Nature has always been a fraud to mask the harm that Coillte have been consistently doing to nature.
@IrishRainforest the worst thing that has happened to Ireland's environment in living memory is that organisation that has the nerve to call itself Coillte