Bird News Tuesday 29th August

Melmore Head, Co Donegal throughout the day had 2 Great Shearwaters, 1 Balearic Shearwater, 320 Sooties, nearly 3000 Manxies, 7 Arctic Skuas, 15 Bonxies, 1 Wilson's Petrel, 2 Sabines Gull, 1 Great Northern Diver, 1 Red-throated Diver, 65 Whimbrel, 6 Sanderling, 12 Arctic terns, 7 Common Scoter and 12 Kittiwakes (Eric Randall / Oscar Campbell)

A high count of 47 Little Egret were at Ballykelly Marsh (Michael Savage).

600 Razorbills, 50 Common Guillemots, 2 adult and 1 juvenile Roseate Tern, 1 Common Tern and 55 Sandwich Terns were feeding at sea off Killough. 10 Stock Dove and 12 Black tailed Godwits were feeding in an arable field 300m south of Killough. (Tim Murphy).

3 Roseate Terns and a 1st winter Mediterranean Gull were at Whitehead. (Cameron Moore).

Thanks to Cameron for the pictures of the Roseate Tern and the Mediterranean Gull.