No recent posts due to no recent birding. I have been out and about but things are slow and RSPB Belfast was seriously dry, BUT at least we have rising water levels. The patch added a little grebe at Kinnegar, a hunting peregrine passed through and took a dunlin, and a jack snipe dropped in beside half a dozen snipe feeding in the open, sat long enough for us to id it and then shuffled into the reeds and vanished. The coastal path also has seen returning winter waders but the garden is a bird free zone at present. With a bit of effort I have seen blackbird, dunnock, robin and chaffinch. Magpie and jackdaw are common but that really is that. Large flocks of eider are gathering again in Belfast Lough and the gannets and shearwaters have moved on. There was a spate of guillemots and razorbills feeding close in, but they have moved on. Here's a selection from Belfast RSPB taken over the last week or two.
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| Lapwing |
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| Meadow pipt |
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| Meadow pipit |
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| Look!! Water!! |
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| Redshank |
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| Magpie |
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| Teal |
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| Spot 5 waders and a gull |
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| Curlew, knot and godwit |
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| Mixed waders |
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| Mainly curlew |
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| Spot the godwit |
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| Spot the dunlin |
2021
146: Jack snipe
NDCP
69: Razorbill
WOW
79 Jack snipe
80: Little grebe
81: Peregrine
