Quite a lot to update since the last post. The Bangor West
total stands at 40 with a walk along the coast delivering many expected species
including
purple sandpiper, red-throated diver and most amazing of all
brent
geese in the car park at Seacliff Road. A
sparrowhawk in the garden is always
nice even if it didn’t hang around for a photo.
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| Grazing in the car park |
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| Not fazed by cars |
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| Looking for a family space? |
Belfast WOW kicked off with 39 species including peregrine,
snipe, bar-tailed godwit and three twite, a patch first and a first for my
reserve list.
The annual list starter round
Strangford Lough was delayed until January 13th, but it turned up 67 species including little egret,
merganser, goldeneye, kestrel, greenshank, kingfisher, redwing, fieldfare,
goldcrest, jay, redpoll and tree sparrow. Some views to look at, any of the
interesting birds were too hard to digiscope and I was too busy listing to
photograph the common stuff.
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| Sunrise at the Flood Gates |
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| Quoile pondage |
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| Sunset at Kircubbin |
I also did a trip to Whitehead to collect twite (again),
black redstart and ring-billed gull. The latter in Carrick was too tempting to
drive past. Too wet and dull for photos.
Bangor West
Wren, linnet, house sparrow,
rook, oystercatcher, redshank, eider, cormorant, lapwing, red-throated diver,
black guillemot, razorbill, brent goose, ringed plover, dunlin, turnstone,
purple sandpiper, great black-backed gull, common gull, starling and 40: sparrowhawk.
Belfast WOW
Cormorant, grey heron, shelduck, wigeon, gadwall, teal,
mallard, shoveler, sparrowhawk, buzzard, peregrine, moorhen, oystercatcher,
lapwing, knot, dunlin, snipe, barwit, curlew, redshank, turnstone, black-headed
gull, common gull, herring gull, woodpigeon, pied wagtail, wren, dunnock,
robin, blackbird, blue tit, great tit, magpie, hooded crow, chaffinch,
greenfinch, goldfinch, redpoll. and 39: twite.
2017
Wren, linnet, house sparrow, song thrush, mistle thrush, oystercatcher,
redshank, eider, cormorant, red-throated diver, lapwing, black guillemot,
razorbill, brent goose, ringed plover, dunlin, knot, turnstone, purple
sandpiper, great black-backed gull, common gull, sparrowhawk, shelduck, wigeon,
gadwall, teal, shoveler, peregrine, moorhen, golden plover, snipe, curlew,
barwit, twite, little egret, little grebe, great-crested grebe, pintail, tufted
duck, goldeneye, red-breasted merganser, kestrel, pheasant, coot, kingfisher,
rock pipit, greenshank, redwing, fieldfare, goldcrest, tree sparrow, carrion crow,
shag, black redstart, ring-billed gull, blackwit, and 86: reed bunting
