SATURDAY CRITTERS

These are photographs taken my by birding friend Danny.  They are Ringed Plover and Oystercatcher.

I am linking to SATURDAY CRITTERS  

I appreciate your visit and comments.

Thank you Danny for sharing these photographs with us.

 I hope you enjoyed this post today. 

 

Birding at Barmouth

About 3 weeks ago our Bangor group of the RSPB journeyed to the Barmouth, Co Antrim to see what birds we could find.  The main birds of the day was the Whooper Swans which had just arrived and although I have post a few photos of them in this post today, (hopefuly if my computer behaves itself) I will be post my Saturdays post on that bird alone and I have stills and video of them.

These were some cattle we passed on the way.

We made our way to a hide however there were quite a number of people in it and so we left, however not before I saw, Curlew, Lapwing and Godwits over  on the far shore.  We made our way to this spot  and just out of sight on the right (you will see it on the video tomorrow) is the sea and what is called the Barmouth.

This is the view the other way and our group setting up their telescopes.  The only birds here were a lot of Cormorants sitting on a pier down the other end (again you will see that tomorrow).

Whooper Swan and Hooded Crows

Whooper Swans and 4 Pink footed Geese and 1 Greylag

Whooper Swans, note a young one to left back, Greylag and Pink footed Geese.

Whopper Swans

Golden Plover and curlew at the back.

Golden Plover

There were about 100 of Golden Plover.

A Peregrine in the field, very far away!

I also saw a Barn Owl and 2 Greenshank and some small birds.

I hope you enjoyed some of the birds we saw on that outing however I hope you will look in tomorrow as the main bird, the Whooper Swan will be featured then.

Thank you for visiting.

My computer is still playing up so thanks for all your comments. I am not able to get into your blogs at present except from my mini IPad and I find it too small to do a lot of work on.  I love reading each and every one.  Until tomorrow, have a lovely day/evening.

Birder From Bangor THANK Bird Bloggers

Bangor Marina, Northern Ireland

I decided not to go out today and I was looking at the stats on my blog to see what countries people are from who have looked in on my blog.   I find this fascinating as I have no sense of direction and when there is somewhere in the world that I am not absolutely sure where it is, it gives me the opportunity to find that out.  Not only that but also a lot of other things about that country. I live in Northern Ireland and this photo above is of the Marina in Bangor where I live.

So I thought, as I have been blogging exactly 2 months to the day, I would like to THANK all those people from the following countries that has looked at my blog.  UK, USA, Russia, Germany, Ireland, Australia, Poland, Spain, Canada, Switzerland, Italy, France, Morocco, Turkey, Netherlands, Hungry, New Zealand, Belarus, Venezuela, India, China, Japan, Malaysia and Bangladesh all have visited.  I am thrilled at so many countries looking in on my blog and I hope all those people will continue to pop in now and again and perhaps over the next couple of months there will be even more different countries visiting my blog.

As a THANKS, I am going to leave you with my photos from some of the countries 

that I have birded.  These were all taken before I started blogging.  

Mandarin Duck in Spain

Red - breasted Toucan in Paraguay

Nest with young Cormorants in Bulgaria

Golden Plover breeding in Iceland

Scarlet Ibis in Brazil

White Stork with young in Poland

1 week old Cassowary chick in Queensland, Australia

White -eyed Parakeet in Argentina

I hope you enjoyed these photographs and will look in again at my blog.

Spring? Where did it go?

Yes, yesterday was officially spring.  Today we are back to dull, rainy skies.  Nevertheless, Charlie needed his walk and so I was suitable dressed with waterproof gear and wellies. We walked down a very muddy path with woodland on either side.  Birds were trying their best to sing and I heard the 'wheeze' of the Greenfinch and the song of the Blackbird, Robin and Dunnock.  This path lead to another part of Binstead beach but not a particular nice part as it was very stony.  I saw 15 Turnstone, 3 Curlew, 5 Oystercatcher, Black-head, Common, Great and Lesser Black-backed Gulls and 4 Grey Plover.  By this time, Charlie's fur was muddy and wet and so we retraced out steps back home.