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Bird News Thursday 4th July
Bird News Wednesday 3rd July
A Long-billed Dowitcher is at Portmore Lough RSPB this evening (Aaron Long) The bird was still present at 9:45 (Michael Latham)
A Spotted Flycatcher is still in Antrim Castle Gardens. (Chris Hamilton).
The Quail was heard calling again from the farm gate at Annagh, Lough Beg. (Bob Watts).
A Great Skua was over the harbour on Rathlin. (Ric Else & Hazel Watson).
Long-billed Dowitcher, Aaron Long.
Bird News Tuesday 2nd July
Quail still calling from SW corner of Lough Beg and a Spotted Flycatcher family but no sign of the Red-necked Phalarope (Tony Dodds / Ian Young). Quail still calling intermittently in the afternoon and also a Green Sandpiper (David Steele).
A juvenile Great Spotted Woodpecker visiting a garden between Hillsborough and Moira (Juliet Fleming).
Great Spotted Woodpecker: