My aunt is staying with me for a few days, so we have taken the opportunity to do a bit of birding.
Co Down - magpie, greefinch, chaffinch, goldfinch, song thrush, black-headed gull, herring gull, great black-backed gull, blackbird, robin, house sparrow, collared dove, starling, mute swan, teal, wigeon, bullfinch, jackdaw, rook, crow, blue tit, great tit, coal tit, moorhen, cormorant, wren, greylag geese, mallard, woodpigeon, feral pigeon.
Belfast Harbour (RSPB reserve & environs) - bar-tailed godwit, black-tailed godwit, linnet, robin, reed bunting, chaffinch, sparrowhawk (killing a song thrush!), mallard, teal, wigeon, mallard, shoveler, shelduck, heron, snipe, redshank, ruff, moorhen, black-headed gull, comon gull, herring gull, great black-backed gull, curlew, hooded crow, jackdaw, lapwing, golden plover, magpie, meadow pipit, greenfinch, pied wagtail, oystercatcher, knot, turnstone, mistle thrush, goldeneye, eider ducks, scaup, blackguillemot, red breasted merganiser, great crested grebe, cormorant, woodpigeon, kestrel, wren.
Portmore Lough - dunnock, great tit, blue tit, pheasant, tree sparrow, reed bunting, brent geese, long tailed tits, chaffinch, fieldfare, redwing.
Lough Neagh - whooper swan, mute swan, tufted duck, lapwing, coot, golden plover, shelduck, collared dove, starling, buzzard.
Posted by dawnc at February 26, 2005 08:42 PM