Monday 9th August News

Laughing Gull - 1, Ballycastle (on the beach at the river), Co. Antrim (Colin Bell)
Little Egret - 13, Dundrum Inner Bay South, Co. Down
Little Egret - 7, Dundrum Inner Bay North, Co. Down
Greenshank - 6, Dundrum Inner Bay North, Co. Down
Snipe - 1, Dundrum Inner Bay North, Co. Down
Kingfisher - 1, Dundrum Inner Bay North, Co. Down
Common Sandpiper - 6, Dundrum Inner Bay North, Co. Down
Bar Tailed Godwit -10, Kinnegar Shore Belfast Co.Down
Sandwich Tern - 1, Kinnegar Shore Belfast Co.Down
Dunlin - 2, Kinnegar Shore, Belfast Co.Down
Dunlin - 35, Belfast Lough RSPB Rerve Co.Down
Common Sandpiper - 5, Belfast Lough RSPB Reserve Co.Down
Ruff - 3 juveniles Belfast Lough RSPB Reserve Co.Down
Snipe - 25 Belfast Lough RSPB Reserve Co.Down
Shoveler -5 Belfast Lough RSPB Reserve Co.Down
Swift - 50+ Belfast Lough RSPB Reserve Co.Down
Sedge Warbler - 1 Belfast Lough RSPB Reserve Co.Down


Finally back to 100  in the Fatbirder Top 1000, only took us a week this time and now over 15,000 hits. Our mission is over.......until we can think of more rubbish to put on. Give us a few hours and we'll think of something.
The observant among you will notice that Derek broke the 'only one Laughing Gull photo per day' rule again. There's no stopping him, he's got contacts in the bread business. In fact given the amount of people who look at this blog daily you could be forgiven for thinking that they were actually popular and not plastic-bag-lookalike-disease-spreading-flying-rats (with poor personalities).

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