Bird News Thursday 17th October

Bonaparte’s Gull at Ballygally foreshore 1pm (Ian Young).

Snow Bunting still at Ramore Head (John Clarke / Chris Hamilton).

Yellow-browed Warbler on Tory (Anton Meenan). 

2 Black-throated Diver still at Carnlough this morning (Stephen Riddell).

Drake Ring-necked Duck at Lough Swilly at Inch Island Lake, Co Donegal from Tready Hide (RBA).

Little Gull and the long-staying Whimbrel in Church Bay, Rathlin. Also a late Greenland Wheatear, Merlin and 2 Great White Egrets on Kebble Lough (Nathanael Poffley / Ric Else).

3 Slavonian Grebes off Macedon Point (Stuart McKee).

2 Yellow-browed Warblers at Malinmore, Co Donegal (Andy Ellard)

Snow Bunting, John Clarke:

Yellow-browed Warbler, Anton Meenan.

Little Gull, Ric Else.