Pink-footed Goose - 1, Myroe Levels, Lough Foyle
Little Egret - 2, Dundrum Inner Bay
Little Egret - 1, Longfield, Lough Foyle
Golden Plover - 5, Longfield, Lough Foyle
Whimbrel - 35, Longfield, Lough Foyle
Sandwich Tern - 250, Bann Estuary
Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1, Co. Down
Cuckoo - 2, Peatlands Park, Co. Armagh
Cuckoo - 1, Slieve Gullion, Co. Armagh
Stock Dove - 5, Longfield, Lough Foyle
Greenland Wheatear -1, Myroe Levels, Lough Foyle
Crossbill -1, Slieve Gullion, Co.Armagh
Also:
100+ Common Tern, 1 Knot and 1 Whimbrel - Whitehouse Lagoon
50 Dunlin and 1 Common Sandpiper - RSPB Belfast Lough Reserve
3 Red-throated Diver - Groomsport
5 Stock Dove - along High Bangor Road (at junction with Kylestone Road)
80 Dunlin, 1 sanderling, 2 Turnstone, 1 Sparrowhawk, and 1 Common Buzzard also at Longfield
35 Golden Plover, 4 Whimbrel and 80 Bar-tailed Godwit also at Myroe.
Below: Dipper (juvenile) by Mark Killops, 9th May
Republic of Ireland
Ring-necked Duck - 1, drake, Inch Lake, Co. Donegal
Pacific Diver - 1, Finvarra Pt., Co. Clare
Forster's Tern - 1, adult summer, Tacumshin, Co. Wexford
Short-toed Lark - 1, Ballycotton, Co. Cork
Check out RTE1 at
7pm this Tuesday (11th
May)
- featuring Jesmond Harding talking about Irish butterflies, including Tommy Earley's Marsh Fritillary colony [Tommy has a farm in north Roscommon beside Lough Allen that contains raised bog]. Including a guest appearance by Ian Rippey.
- featuring Jesmond Harding talking about Irish butterflies, including Tommy Earley's Marsh Fritillary colony [Tommy has a farm in north Roscommon beside Lough Allen that contains raised bog]. Including a guest appearance by Ian Rippey.