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| Bar tailed and Black tailed Godwits, Redshanks, Knots, Herring Gulls, Common Gulls |
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| All lifted |
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| because of this beauty - Peregrine falcon, Bull Island |
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| It didn't manage to get any of the birds this time. |
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| As if to mock the Peregrine, the Gulls start yawning - there are 3 Shoveler in the background |
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| Spotted a tagged Black tailed Godwit Left leg Red, Black - Right leg Yellow and X on pale yellow, not sure who to report it to.. |
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| There were lots of Wheatears at the Bull today |
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| 1st Winter Northern Wheatear, Bull Island - this was one of a group of 5 |
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| Sandwich Tern, Swords Estuary |
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| Juv Sandwich Tern (adult would have dark streaks on outer wings?), Swords Estuary, first of the Terns to arrive, last to leave. |
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| Portmarnock, Co.Dublin, not bad for 10th September. |
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| bit of a battered Curlew in flight, Portmarnock |
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| Curlew getting a bit of shut eye, Portmarnock |
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| Different Curlew, Portmarnock - much greyer shade of plumage |
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| Common Tern, 2 Sandwich Terns, Portmarnock. |
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| 1st Winter Wheatear, Portmarnock |
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| Jackdaw, Portmarnock |
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| Jackdaw. |
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| Watched this Hooded crow pick out periwinkles (?) from the rocks, fly up, drop the shells from a height onto the rocks so the shells smashed and the goodies inside the shell could be easily eaten |
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| Heavenly voices from above |
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| made this couple who were arguing hug and make up, aaaah. |
So that was my day to Bull Island, Swords Estuary and Portmarnock.
Lots of Swallows still around and Sandwich Terns, saw only 1 Common Tern, no Swifts and no Sand Martins in the places I saw them in Portmarnock in Summer.
