Bird News Wednesday 4th September

Ramore Head this morning from 07:00 to 11:00 had a  juvenile Long Tailed Skua, 4 Great Skua, 3 Arctic Skua, 2 Whimbrel and a Red-throated Diver (Richard Hunter)
Ramore Head had over the day (some overlap with the above) 2 Long Tails Skuas, 11 Sabines, 31 Arctic Skuas 54 Bonxies, 22 Leaches, 90 Arctic Terns, 400 Manx, 4 juv/duck Pintail and 2 Whimbrel (Stuart McKee / Dennis Weir)

Further records from Ramore later in the day were 20 Leaches, 1 European Storm Petrel, 1 Little Auk, 1 Pomerine Skua, 8 Bonxies, 5 Arctic Skua, 2 juvenile Sabines Gulls, 3 Common Tern, 2 Red-throated Diver, 2 Sooty Shearwaters and a Grey Phalarope. (Ian Enlander & Brian Sutton/Hill Dick).

The rough weather brought a Little Tern, possibly the 1st record, a Storm Petrel, 2 Sooty Shearwaters, 2 Sandwich Tern, a Red-throated Diver and large numbers of Gannets to Rathlin. (Ric Else & Hazel Watson).

RSPB WoW had 2 Little Stint, 3Curlew Sandpiper and 6 Ruff (Gerard McGeehan)

A Long-eared Owl was at Monea, Co. Fermanagh this morning. (Brad Robson).

Large numbers of seabirds were in Helen's Bay this afternoon including between 1,500 - 2,000 terns, mostly Sandwich Terns, hundreds of Gannets, Guillemots and Razorbills and three Arctic Skua. (Philip Watson).

5 Wheatear were along the Foyle estuary this morning. (Lindsay Hodges).

Magillifan had three Black Terns and a Leaches Petrel (Mervyn Campbell)

Thanks to Ian Enlander for the picture of the juvenile Sabines Gull and Leaches Petrels, to Lindsay Hodges for the picture of the Wheatear, to Kevin Kirkham for the picture of the Ruff and to Ric Else for the picture of the Gannet:






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