Bird News Wednesday 3rd July

An adult male Hobby (carrying a dragonfly) was just south of Windyhill Road between Limavady and Coleraine (Dave Allen, Dennis Weir).

A Peregrine was hunting Starlings near Brookeborough in Co. Fermanagh. (John Young).

Both adult and young Reed Warblers continue to be seen around the Kinnegoe hide at Oxford Island, see picture below. (Ed O'Hara).

2 Whimbrel and a Common Sandpiper were at Briggs Rocks. (Colin Guy).

Thanks to today's photographers, to Alistair Prentice for the pictures of the Spotted Flycatcher and juvenile Hooded Crow, and to Ed O'Hara for the montage of Reed Warblers. You can see more NI bird pictures at www.nibirdpics.blogspot.co.uk