Common Sandpiper - 1, Quoile Pondage, Co Down (Stuart McKee)
Black-tailed Godwit - 70, SW corner of Lough Beg, Co. Londonderry (David Steele)
Greenshank - 2, SW corner of Lough Beg, Co. Londonderry (David Steele)
Greenshank - 3, Quoile Pondage, Co Down (Stuart McKee)
Little Gull - 2, (1st summer), Quoile Pondage, Co Down (Stuart McKee)
Spotted Flycatcher - 2, Portadown, Co. Armagh (Mark Killops)
Spotted Flycatcher, today, Co. Armagh (Mark Killops)
As to the question as to what the National bird for Northern Ireland is (or if it exists)? As ever if you want an answer to Northern Ireland bird questions George Gordon is your man
"I was contacted by someone who is compiling a list of National
Birds and he thought that Oystercatcher might have been the logo
of the Ulster Society for the Protection of Birds (the precursor of the RSPB in Northern Ireland). I
asked Tom Ennis and he seemed to remember that it may have been on their
headed notepaper. So I got in touch with Jim Wells and he kindly went
through the legislation passed in Stormont. There is no mention of a
National (official) bird for Northern Ireland so it looks as though we do
not have one."
I think this is worth starting a debate - we must be one of the only countries in the world without a national bird. (Oystercatcher would do fine but let's make it official, unless anybody comes up with something else!)
Just on that topic what are the national Birds of the UK (Scotland, Wales and England as well as Northern Ireland - not forgetting the Isle of Man, The Channel Islands, the Dependencies and others)?
