Quoile Pondage -blackbird, chaffinch, cormorant, coot, carrion & hooded crow, tufted duck, dunlin, goldeneye, gt crested grebe (including 1 pair displaying), black-headed gull, gt black-backed gull, herring gull, grey heron, jackdaw, lapwing, mallard, pintail (drake), robin, shelduck, mute swan, teal, wigeon, wren.
Strangford - brent geese & rooks
Cloghy Rocks - redshank, cormorant, grey heron, lesser black-backed gulls, brent geese, oystercatcher, curlew
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.
Lovely sunny weather today. Headed down to Oxford Island. This is acually a peninsular into Lough Neagh (freshwater). Birds seen were black headed gull, common gull, tufted duck, mallard, pochard (approx 300), mute swan, whooper swan, scaup (sun catching the green head of the drakes beautifully), moorhen, coot, magpie, wren, goldeneye, pied wagtail, mistle thrush, great tit, coal tit, grey heron, rook and cormorant.
New bird for garden - yesterday and today there has been a pair of redpoll feeding in the garen. The female has been feeding on nyger seed and the male on the ground under the mixed seed feeder. Lovely birds.