Seamus Ong

And I think that's what we're slowly seeing, that there's more and more young people actually through their interest coming into nature, that they're actually also into birds.

OK, so I suppose two weeks ago, our group, so we decided we'd go out to Loughborough in Offaly, which is a bog land out there.

And one of our things, we're going to try and look for the grey partridge, quite a rare bird that's only located in Loughborough there in Ireland.

So we went out there.

There was about 10 of us that went out and we kind of carpooled out there.

Our group is very much, let's say, grassroots, so very organic how it's grown, you know.

And do you go out early in the morning?

Yeah, we do.

Sometimes...

Not too early, I suppose, because we're still trying to get some of the new people involved, you know, so we're trying to be as accommodating as possible.

But we'd certainly go out and the last day we spent, let's say, I'd say the whole day nearly out there walking around.

Yeah, but we do...

Yeah, we do kind of, let's say, we'd spend a bit of time, like we were about in an hour, let's say, in a certain location, you know, maybe just watching and seeing what we could see, you know, listening as well to different birds.

Some of us know the song calls as well to them, you know.

Yes, some of us do.

Yeah.

And then also there's a lot of us would be interested in, let's say, nature photography as well.

So taking photographs of the birds as well.

We didn't on this occasion, but we saw a white throat as well, which is one of the summer visitors that came in, you know, to Ireland.

So that was a good find for us.