Bird News Friday 19th March

A presumed drake Lesser Scaup was seen distantly at the west end of Portmore Lough. The Great White Egret was also present (Wilton Farrelly)

The Iceland Gull was still present at the playing fields in Coleraine (Stephen Riddell)

The adult Ring-billed Gull was still at the Round O, Enniskillen.

A Pik-footed Goose was with 300 Greylags at Derrytrasna, Lough Neagh (Ed O'Hara) 

On the east side of Strangford Lough were 63 Slavonian Grebe (12 at Newtownards Sailing Club,  3 at Chapel island, 46 between Greyabbey Bay and Kircubbin and 2 at Horse Island),  4 Black-throated Diver at Horse Island and 5 Long-tailed Duck  off Newtownards Sailing Club. (Richard Weyl)


3 Iceland Gulls were at Enniskillen Dump (1 ad and 2 juvs) (Brad Robson) A singing Chiffchaff and a Great Spotted Woodpecker was at Pubble Forest (Amy Burns)


Pink-footed Goose, Ed O'Hara:


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