Bird News Friday 24th June

An Osprey was on the River Maine at Shanes Castle Demesne last observed yesterday evening. (Sam Andrews)

The unusual phylloscopus warbler singing in trees by the track on the NE side of Belfast WoW is still present. It is employing both 'song- switching' and 'mixed singing,' using elements of both willow warbler and chiffchaff songs. (Maureen Harvey-Graham / Matthew Tickner)

A Buff-breasted Sandpiper is at Lough Beg, on the mud by Church Island. (David Steele).

A juvenile Great Spotted Woodpecker continues to visit a garden in Ballynahinch. (Ian Jackson).

Thanks to Ian Jackson for the picture of the Great Spotted Woodpecker, to David Steele for the picture of the Buff-breasted Sandpiper and to Rebecca Tanner for her excellent painting of the recent Rathlin Rosy Starling:





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