Greenshank - 1, Belfast Lough RSPB (Ed O'Hara)
Whimbrel - 5, Belfast Lough RSPB (Ed O'Hara)
Black-tailed Godwit - 1, ringed (see photo below), Belfast Lough RSPB (Ed O'Hara)
Common Sandpiper - 2, Belfast Lough RSPB (Ed O'Hara)
Greenshank - 4, Dundrum Inner Bay South, Co. Down
Swift - 150, Dundrum Inner Bay South, Co. Down
Cheers to Ed O'Hara for lightening the gloom with these pics taken at Belfast RSPB today
Greenshank
Black-tailed Godwits (inc. 1 ringed)
Whimbrel (centre)
Common Sandpiper
Seeing as it's nearly a tradition to post pictures of Laughing Gull on this site here's a couple more from Ed O'Hara, taken at Ballycastle yesterday
It's trivia time! Here's a brain-bender from George Gordon. This one has been hurting my head:
Apart from all being passerines on the Irish List what do Woodchat Shrike,
Red-breasted Flycatcher, Lesser Whitethroat, Yellow-browed Warbler,
Short-toed Lark, Lapland Bunting, Mealy Redpoll, Greenland Wheatear,
Melodius Warbler, Aquatic Warbler, Reed Warbler, Pallas's Grasshopper
Warbler, Dartford Warbler, Little Bunting and Shore Lark have in common?
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