nibirds: Tuesday 20th Juy News

Common Sandpiper - 5, Seagahan Dam but no sign of yesterdays Little Ringed Plover
- although hard to cover the whole Dam, big place by all accounts.

Green Sandpiper - 1, Belfast Lough RSPB, Co. Down (Ian Dickey)
Common Sandpiper - 17, Blackstaff River, Dundrum Inner Bay North, Co. Down
Greenshank - 5, Blackstaff River, Dundrum Inner Bay North, Co. Down
Little Egret - 4, Dundrum Inner Bay South, Co. Down

Black Guillemot - Newcastle, Co. Down by Ed O'Hara

I have to admit to laziness - nothing new there, another one of those things we do best. Here's the id for Dave and Orcilla Hadrick's dragonflies from Cyprus. Thanks to Brian Nelson for confirmation - I got 50% of them right!

Below: Probably Epaulet Skimmer Orthetrum chrystostigma - "solely on the basis of the slight waisting on the abdomen a feature of this species and not the other possible Cypriot species (coreulescens, brunneum, taeniolatum). To be certain you need to see the base of the wings or sides"