Sunday 15th August News

Nightjar - 1 (female type), Murlough NNR, Co. Down (Stuart McKee)
Spoonbill - 1, Quoile Pondage, Co. Down
Green Sandpiper - 2, Quoile Pondage, Co. Down
Ruff - 1, Quoile Pondage, Co. Down
Common Sandpiper - 1, Quoile Pondage, Co. Down
Mediterranean Gull - 1 (moulting adult), Dundrum Inner Bay South, Co. Down
Little Egret - 9, Dundrum Inner Bay South, Co. Down
Greenshank - 7, Dundrum Inner Bay South, Co. Down
Little Egret - 12, Dundrum Inner Bay North, Co. Down
Greenshank - 5, Dundrum Inner Bay North, Co. Down
Knot - 1, Dundrum Inner Bay North, Co. Down
Common Sandpiper - 4, Dundrum Inner Bay South, Co. Down


Green Sandpiper - 1
Ruff - 1
Knot - 4
Dunlin - 15
(all Belfast Lough RSPB Reserve, Clive Mellon)

Osprey  - 1, Lough Beg
Oystercatcher - 1, Lough Beg
Black-tailed Godwit (SW corner) Lough Beg
Golden Plover - 3, Mullagh, Lough Beg
(all David Steele)

Little Egret - 3, SW corner, Lough Beg, Co. Londonderry (Godfrey McRoberts)
Manx Shearwater - 1000, 1 mile off Whitehead, Co. Antrim (John Pyper and David Clarke)
Gannet - 50, 1 mile off Whitehead, Co. Antrim (John Pyper and David Clarke).


Thanks again to Nigel Snell for these pics of Tree Sparrows taken yesterday at Islandhill, Strangford Lough

http://www.nigel-snellphotography.com/

http://www.flickr.com/nigelsnell





































































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