Bird News Saturday 4th July 2026

Drake Ring-necked Duck at Kinnegoe Bay, Oxford Island NNR ( Garry Armstrong).

Bird News Friday 3rd July 2026

A Turtle Dove has been reported from a garden in Ballyclare. 

At Belfast Lough RSPB WoW reserve two adult Mediterranean Gulls with a juvenile at roadside hide, on the far shore another 3 adult Mediterranean Gulls also 3 1st summer and 3 2nd summer Mediterranean Gulls and an unaccompanied juvenile Mediterranean Gull. Two Common Sandpipers at least one summer plumaged Bar-tailed Godwit also present. (Stuart McKee).

Bird News Thursday 2nd July 2026

Yesterday a 2nd year Mediterranean Gull was at Church Bay, Rathlin (Ric Else)

Two Great Skua and the 2y Mediterranean Gull were on Rathlin today (Ric Else)

Three Stock Doves, 2 adults and a young bird, were feeding with Wood Pigeons, in a field off Ardilea Road, near Clough (David Nixon)

Bird News Wednesday 1st July 2026

Ruff in nearly full summer plumage, 2 Common Sandpipers at Belfast Lough WoW (Gerard McGeehan). Also 15 Mediterranean Gulls including 2 2nd calendar year (Bob Watts).

A group of Crossbill over Mullaphad Forest, Co Fermanagh (Colin Bell).