Bird News Monday 14th September.

5 Purple Sandpiper where feeding of the rocks at the Long Hole which is just past Bangor pier, in winter anywhere along this coast is usually a good place to catch up with this wader.(Margaret Adamson)

A Green Sandpiper, 3 Garganey and 7 Ruff were at the south end of Lough Beg (Matthew Tickner).

An adult Little Gull was feeding off Minerstown beach. 2 Garganey (1 adult male and 1 female/ juvenile), 15 Black-tailed Godwit, 30 Lapwing and 1 Snipe were on the river Quoile opposite Inch Abbey. (Tim Murphy)

Late news from yesterday was 13 Greenshank and 9 Little Egret at Dundrum Inner Bay North (Ivor McDonald).

Purple Sandpiper - Margaret Adamson.