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The Skerries Wild Bee Festival, held from June 20-22, 2025, celebrated nature and community, bringing together biodiversity experts and residents. Organized by volunteers and supported by Fingal County Council, the festival emphasized small actions to support pollinators. Keynote speaker Professor Jane Stout highlighted Skerries’ role in community-led biodiversity efforts.

Hamilton Hill

Charlie writes: We are pleased to hold our first ever Bumblebee Walk on the Hamilton Hill Estate where we have a whole new area of pollinator habitat.  Incorporated in the newly completed Multi Use Games Area is a large wildflower meadow which will flower for the first time this year. Our recorders regularly spot the Large Carder Bee in the locality and it is hoped that the area will become a stronghold for this… Read More