Bird News Thursday 2nd July

Lady’s Bay, Lough Neagh had 1 sub adult Little Gull, 6 Common Sandpiper, the Egyptian Goose and 30 Black-tailed Godwit (Ed O’Hara)

A Great Spotted Woodpecker was at Saintfield (Robert Conn)

A Red Kite was along the A26 just outside Ballymoney, (Sean Hickey)

This morning 15 Manx Shearwater were at Airport Road West, Belfast (Derek Polley)

Little Gull, Ed O'Hara:

Juvenile male Great Spotted Woodpecker, Brian Redpath: