County Louth (formerly Dundalk Bay) local patch. (2 Viewers)

ardnasx1 · Oct 26, 2007

Maurice Conaghy had a short eared owl at Baltray on Tuesday. It wasn't too far from the first stile, over near the water tank.

Enda · Oct 27, 2007

red neck grebe was off hermitage today later seen from salterstown (by E.L.) with at least one slav grebe also present.later in the afternoon a short eared owl & bonxie were recorded(by A.K.)at hermitage

Enda · Oct 29, 2007

forsters tern from cruisetown today.nice find Gerry/Don

Gerry o Neill · Oct 29, 2007

flight shot of forsters tern

Enda said:
forsters tern from cruisetown today.nice find Gerry/Don

Maybe the returning bird from last winter?

ardnasx1 · Oct 30, 2007

Nice shots. I saw it yesterday evening. Same place as last year's. Watched it for around 10 mins and then it disappeared and i couldn't relocate it, but hopefully it will hang if it is last year's one.

Peter Phillips · Oct 30, 2007

Whooper Swans

The best today at Ballagan was a Merlin and a flock of 8 Whooper Swans coming in off the sea

breffni · Oct 31, 2007

Nice to see the fosters back! I had a business trip to berlin - unfortunately the weather didn't cooperate and the light was unbelievably horrible - I thought ireland was bad...nevertheless spent an afternoon watching a pair of goshawks interacting with a large flock of grey crows - makes a change to see the latter absolutely pertified by the goshawks.

breffni · Nov 1, 2007

Quick reminder that Sandra McKeever will give an illustrated talk on the Little Tern Protection Scheme at Baltray upstairs at the Spirit Store, Dundalk Docks, Dundalk at 8pm on Monday. All are welcome!

MargaretM · Nov 3, 2007

Ards Peninsula at the week-end had loads of Brent Geese as you would expect, but quite a sight even so. Also lots of Eider as well. The photo shows an Eider trying to swallow food that shortly afterwards was taken by a gull.

Peter Phillips · Nov 4, 2007

Greylag Geese

No sign of the reported Greylags on the Goose fields at Lurgangreen. 2 shooters in the fields this evening.
Nice flock of Golden Plover at Cruisetown.

Enda · Nov 4, 2007

Forsters tern on the beach (in front of the toilets) along with 2 adult med gulls this morning at cruisetown,and the ringtail hen harrier showed well in the fields behind the strand.24 white fronted geese flew into lurgangreen saltmarsh this evening

Peter Phillips · Nov 5, 2007

Greylag Geese

14 Little Egrets 68 Greylag Geese and 12 Whooper Swans at lurgangreen today.
21 of the Greylag and 6 Whoopers where in the 'Geese Fields' just south of Lurgangreen in the fields between the sea and the main road.

Any counts of waders and waterfowl, but particularly Geese and Swans, from these fields are very important this winter. They may have important implications for the protection of birds using Dundalk Bay.

Please take a note of numbers of geese or swans using these fields and post them on the forum or contact myself or Breffni.

Thanks

Peter

breffni · Nov 5, 2007

Sandra was on LMFM radio (www.lmfm.ie) this morning about the Little Terns at Baltray and came across very well - it was on the Daire Nelson Show at about 11:20am today - not sure if it is possible to "listen again".

Gerry o Neill · Nov 5, 2007

mournng dove

Gerry o Neill said:
Maybe the returning bird from last winter?

Mourning dove Inishbofin.

MargaretM · Nov 5, 2007

That was a great presentation on the Little Terns in the Spirit Store tonight, well done Sandra.

breffni · Nov 6, 2007

I'd second that and also thanks to everyone for coming especially Kieran and Niall who came all the way from Kildare and Greystones to be there.

Large numbers of greylags flying south over my garden early this morning - and a few minutes ago a 1W buzzard dropped in...photo from my office window!

Peter Phillips · Nov 7, 2007

Forsters Tern

Well done to the whole Mc Keever family especially Sandra. Nice photos of the Buzzard (Breffni) and Pigeon (Gerry).

I finally saw the Fosters Tern today (it only took a year). Carrion Crow and a hybrid Hooded Cross at Cruisetown as well as lots of Whoopers milling about the bay. Have the Russian white fronted Geese been seen since Paul Kelly had them?

Lots of Knot and Golden Plovers about

MargaretM · Nov 8, 2007

Flock of Long Tailed Tits today in my parents garden near Castlebellingham... nice diversion while making dinner.

Peter Phillips · Nov 11, 2007

Snow Bunting

We got good views of Endas Snow Bunting at Salterstown today. The best at Cruisetown was a female type Hen Harrier.

Enda · Nov 11, 2007

Peter Phillips said:
We got good views of Endas Snow Bunting at Salterstown today.

and excellent shots also,Peter.. cruisetown today had black throated diver (found by noel&niall k),forsters tern & 3 skuas as the light was fading which i presume landed on the water (lost them an couldnt relocate them) artic type is about the best description i could put on them

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