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More Bad News from RSPB Belfast Harbour

On Friday, a fox that is seen passing under the tern off Iceland’s skin visualization? N principal, and then comes through? S a hole in the main platform of Iceland. As? small hope that the eggs or chicks that were in Iceland. Tern of Iceland has obviously gotten into this sorry state and it just [...]

House Martins and a Gift of a Dead Swallow

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Tory Island Co Donegal , Corncrakes and a sighting of what I firmly believe was a Great Snipe

Gui? N quail in RathlinLast week I arranged through Twitter to meet McLaughlin ‘n’ R n, an brilliant photon graph of birds originating in Co. Donegal, who now lives in County Cork, on the ferry to Magheraroarty a d? to travel to Iceland Tory northwest coast of Co. Donegal. Est? We were in tension to [...]

RSPB Belfast Harbour Revisited And It Is Still A Disgrace

I had to kill a couple of hours in Belfast a couple of weeks, as well? I thought? I would go with the RSPB Belfast Harbour Reserve and see how they look terns? an over. First, the fill up reservoir is bone dry and not at all on the right hand room Tern Iceland? A [...]

EarthShots Photo Of The Day

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A Few More Migrants And A Lifer. Not A Bird This Time But A Pine Marten

H? I tte a fantastic d? To in the first place is directed? Iceland Castle Hide Quoile on the court and country? alg? No time surveillance a pair of herons. A continuation? N a M? We flew once around the bay? A, followed by some common terns. They did not know? An what they saw [...]

An 80th Birthday and My First Sighting of a Grasshopper Warbler

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I Love My Visiting Goldfinches

About eight years you rarely hab? A goldfinch at my feeders and even when they started feeding Nyjer seed does not appear? To it to attract some birds. Then I started? using sunflower hearts and since then I had a mont? n Goldfinch visiting feeders each day? a. This has allowed me to photograph them [...]

Great Grey Shrike at The Ulster Wildlife Trust Slievenacloy Reserve

Raubw? Thor Rger sits on black Raubw last week? Rger (Lanius excubitor) was held? the Ulster Wildlife Trust Nature Reserve in the H Slievenacloy? Rules that appear privileged than Belfast. Was found by Dermot Hughes, ex- director of preservation? No trust was. S? The room? To 17 sets of data? The conversion? N the one [...]

A Memorable Days Birding with a Belgian Visitor looking for Ring-necked Duck and Red Grouse

On the night of s? Saturday sent me? Anthony McGeehan text saying that the ring-necked Duck was the Fill up Temple in the National Trust property in the Castle Ward and he was giving fabulous views and it was f? unadorned to photograph. The s? Saturday hab me? Has appeared to Castle Ward to see [...]