Sunday 25th July News

Thanks to Ed O'Hara for these three pictures of a Common Sandpiper. But check the first photo it seems to be a new species the Long Billed Sandpiper! It is caused by bill dissapearing into the crack in the rock behind. Brilliant photo!


Ed O'Hara
Ed O'Hara

Ed O'Hara


Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1, (female) Curraghard, Tollymore, Newcastle, Co.Down (Dan Bailie)
Spotted Flycatcher - 2, Curraghard, Tollymore, Newcastle Co.Down (Dan Bailie)
Spotted Flycatcher - 4, Castlewellan Forest Park, Co. Down (Ed O'Hara)
Manx Shearwater - 100, Newcastle, Co. Down
Greenshank - 1, Dundrum, Co. Down (Ed O'Hara)
Common Sandpiper - 5, Dundrum, Co. Down (Ed O'Hara)
Turnstone - 50+, Newcastle, Co. Down (Ed O'Hara)
Red Kite - 1, Moneyslane, Co.Down (Ed O'Hara)
Ruff - 2, (adult female), Lough Beg, Co. Londonderry
Dunlin - 1, (juvenile), Lough Beg, Co. Londonderry
Greenshank - 13, Lough Beg, Co. Londonderry (a high count for this location)
Little Egret - 1, Lough Beg, Co. Londonderry
Arctic Skua - 2, (Dark Phase) Whitehead, Co.Antrim, flying up Belfast Lough. (Ian Enlander)
Manx Shearwater - 1000+ Portmuck, Co.Antrim (flying south in a two hour period)
Reed Warbler - 1, Oxford Island, Co. Armagh (Comghal McQuillan)
Green Sandpiper - 1, Ballyherly Lough, Co. Down (Richard Weyl)
Reed Warbler - 3, Ballyherly Lough, Co. Down (Richard Weyl)
Red Grouse - 6, Slieve Beagh, Co. Tyrone (Colin Bell)
Late news concerns another possible sighting of a Golden Eagle between Armoy and Altnarichard Co.Antrim


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