Bird News Tuesday 31st July

The juvenile Mediterranean Gull with the yellow leg ring AYLT seen at Victoria Park in Belfast on Sunday was ringed near Leipzig, Germany on 8th June and was last seen there on 3rd July so it traveled west 1,272 kms in 27 days. (Ian Enlander).

Unusually a pair of Sand Martins are nesting in a sand dune at Murlough. (Garry Wilkinson).

Thanks to Wilf Swain for the picture of the Grey Herons and Little Egrets:


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