Bird News Saturday 11th January 2025

A male Goosander was at the back of the Discovery Centre at Oxford Island, a male Lesser Scaup and a hybrid resembling a Lesser Scaup were off the Croaghan hide. (Garry Armstrong, Ed O’Hara, Clifford Sharpe).

A Red-throated Diver and 2 Scaup were off Kinnegar shore in Belfast Lough. (Stuart Cossey).

The Great White Egret was still at Portmore Lough RSPB. (Michael Latham).

A Slavonian Grebe was off Ballymacran bank in Lough Foyle. (Steven Farquhar)

Water Rail, Ryan Holgate.