Bird News Wednesday 26th January

4 Goosander - 2 female and 2 immatures - were at the weir at Randalstown (Dermot
Hughes).

A second winter Mediterranean Gull was seen again at the river at Ballyholme, Bangor.
(George Gordon).

A female Blackcap was in a garden at Island Magee (Robert McDowell).

Yesterday 175 Curlew were at Dundrum Inner Bay South, 5 Bullfinch a mile
along the road from Newcastle to Bryansford and 4 Goldfinch at the east side
of Tollymore (Ann McComb).

Thanks to Stephen Foster for this shot of a female Blackcap taken in his garden in Bleary in late December.

Female Blackcap, Bleary, Co. Armagh - Stephen Foster