Ards peninsula
I saw the Barrow's Goldeneye today from the wee pier past the Quoile countryside centre (after the second car park). Also 8 pink footed geese and a single whooper swan that seems to have been around for some time.
At RSPB Harbour reserve spotted a white rumped sandpiper, a little stint and a bar headed goose which I hear has been in residence there!
Lovely close views at high tide in Newtownards of Brent, pintail, eider, knot, merganser, dunlin.
Driving towards Cloughey saw a hedge full of tree sparrows feeding off a maize setaside field. Ringed plover, dunlin and golden plover in the bay at Cloughey.
Has anyone heard of an alternative name for a shag.. " a willy dipper?" A local farmer named it thus!
cidereduck said:a barrows is back at the quoile, would this more than likely be the same as last year, and if so does it mean the duck is less likely to be a 'real' barrows, as it keeps visiting the same area, assuming its the same one?
I saw the Barrow's Goldeneye today from the wee pier past the Quoile countryside centre (after the second car park). Also 8 pink footed geese and a single whooper swan that seems to have been around for some time.
At RSPB Harbour reserve spotted a white rumped sandpiper, a little stint and a bar headed goose which I hear has been in residence there!
Lovely close views at high tide in Newtownards of Brent, pintail, eider, knot, merganser, dunlin.
Driving towards Cloughey saw a hedge full of tree sparrows feeding off a maize setaside field. Ringed plover, dunlin and golden plover in the bay at Cloughey.
Has anyone heard of an alternative name for a shag.. " a willy dipper?" A local farmer named it thus!
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