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Bird News Wednesday 7th October 2026

 A Carrion Crow way at Ballycastle. (Tomás Hand).

Sea watching at Bloody Foreland in Donegal between 8.15 and 10.50 in a north west wind had 163 Manx Shearwaters, 59 Sooty Shearwaters, 1 Petrel species, 6 Great Skuas, 9 Arctic Skuas, 2 Pomarine Skuas, 1 adult Long-tailed Skua, 1 Sabines Gull, 33 Arctic Terns, 6 Great Northern Divers and 109 Barnacle Geese. (Chris Ingram).

A Merlin was at Portmore this morning. (Lucy Shilliday).

Whooper Swans were at Whitehouse Lagoon. (Gerard McGeehan).

A dark-bellied Brent was near Green Island in Dundrum Inner Bay, and was paired with a pale-bellied Brent and accompanied by 3 young. (David Nixon).

A Curlew Sandpiper was at Ballymacormack Point. (Ewan McKenzie).

A Lapland Bunting was at Malin More in Donegal. 

The Glossy Ibis was still at Castle Espie also a Common Sandpiper. (Derek Polley).

Merlin, Lucy Shilliday.


Dark-bellied Brent, David Nixon.



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