Bird News Friday 18th December.

A Black Redstart was seen around the harbour in Newcastle Co.Down. Several Great Northern Divers still close offshore too. (Daniel Newton)

A Merlin was seen hunting over flooded fields on west side of Bann, north of Portadown. (Brian Nelson)

5 Sandwich Terns where on Portaferry Marina and 3 Iceland Gulls at Ardglass.(Dermot Hughes)

Two Peregrines were hunting Kinnegar Shore today (Stuart McKee)

Unusually a Swift was at Greencastle Point in Carlingford Lough on 15th (Edward Forsyth