Spent my birthday week in Newcastle, on the County Down coast last week. Lots of birding was to be had, although the highlight was a living room tick of a pair of Bottle-nosed dolphin on the morning of the 15th!
Newcastle Harbour Area
Common Scoter Black-throated Diver Great Northern Diver Great Crested Grebe Great Black-backed Gull Herring Gull Black-headed Gull Black Guillemot Little Auk Purple Sandpiper Turnstone Dunlin Curlew Redshank Oystercatcher Rock Pipit Pied Wagtail Bottle-nosed dolphin Otter Common Seal
Murlough Nature Reserve & Beach
Sanderling Ringed Plover Linnet Stonechat Hooded Crow
Tollymore Forest Park
Dipper Jay Magpie Mistle Thrush Goldcrest Blue Tit Coal Tit Great Tit Chaffinch Fallow Deer
Tyrella/ St. John's Point
Buzzard Kestrel Curlew Oystercatcher Hooded Crow Rook
_________________ "Accept that some days you are the pigeon, and some days you are the statue."
Patch YTD: 155
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