With good birds reported from Dundalk, and a bright sunny day I felt a visit to the cousins nearby was in order. First stop was Shore Road to look for the
Twite flock that has been hanging around here all winter. There were only a few birds today (despite 91 being claimed from earlier this morning). Lots of
Linnet though...
The next hotspot was Dundalk Port. While I was scanning the flocks on the opposite bank I let Cillian use the scope. Naturally the first bird he sighted on turned out to be a
Spotted Redshank, well done boy!
Further up the river is a gull roost which today had a lovely 2nd cycle
Kumlien's Gull, as well as a group of 9
Ruff, lots of
Golden Plovers and plenty other nice birds.
An excellent day
Dundalk Port
Shore Road
Castletown River
A lovely 2nd winter
Kumlien's Gull. I didn't get a decent flight view so I'll have to take the ID on trust.
I haven't seen a
Spotted Redshank since Dubai, and they are one of the prettiest of all the waders. An absolute cracker...
Not content with prancing around prettily, it then went and gave me a flyby so that I didn't miss any of the key ID features...
8 of the 9
Ruff that were hanging around in the middle of the stream.
A nice flock of
European Golden Plover came in as the sun was going down.
Two
Linnet (left), and what I believe is a
Twite.
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