I'm sending you a photograph of a juvenile herring gull that I saw in Bray harbour at the end of April. It was ringed last year on a small island off the east coast of Scotland.
Kevin Dodd
Bray, Co Wicklow
We had a pair of nuthatches in Clonskeagh last month. I have never seen these birds before. I'm sending you a photograph.
Gary McGowan
Clonskeagh, Dublin
The bird is a goldcrest, not unlike a nuthatch in shape but only half the size. Nuthatches are not found in Ireland, although they are resident in Britain.
A goldcrest comes to our kitchen window and spends hours pecking at some minuscule food, then flitting back to a bay tree three feet away. He also flies off regularly to feed elsewhere.
Mike Leahy
Skibbereen, Co Cork
I found a stick insect at my summer home in Sneem, Co Kerry. It's 9cm long. I have it in a glass container with leaves and some moisture. What should I do with it?
Margaret Shanahan
Limerick
The unarmed stick insect, 'Acanthoxyla inermis', naturalised in south Co Kerry, feeds on the leaves of trees, and it may have a preference. You should return it to where you found it, but if it survives in Limerick, who knows, it might lay eggs and start a new colony.
Since the middle of April Eye on Nature has had reports of the cuckoo calling from Roscommon, Bundoran, Oughterard and Naas.
Ethna Viney welcomes observations and photographs at Thallabawn, Louisburgh, Co Mayo, F28 F978, or by email at viney@anu.ie. Please include a postal address