Kestrel and Buzzards

Today a kestrel was hunting in a field near my house. Buzzards have been flying overhead every day. Here are some photos.

 Buzzards

 Kestrel

 Kestrel

 Kestrel

Kestrel

Kinnegar

On Saturday 28th June I went to Kinnegar shore. I saw ringed plover, whimbrel and some butterflies and moths. Here are some photos.

 Ringed-Plover

 Ringed-Plover

 Ringed-Plover

 Common Blue Butterfly

 Common Blue Butterfly

 Ringlet Butterfly

 Six-Spot Burnet Moth

Six-Spot Burnet Moth

Cairn Wood

On Thursday 26th June I went to Cairn Wood. There was a spotted flycatcher, a buzzard and wren. Here are some photos.

 Ringlet Butterfly

 Ringlet Butterfly

Buzzard

Portmore Lough

Yesterday I went to Portmore Lough RSPB Reserve. I saw Common Terns, Reed Bunting, a nesting Swallow and Tree Sparrows. I also saw butterflies, damselflies and dragonflies. In the evening I went to Scrabo and saw a Kestrel. Here are some photos.

 Common Blue Damselfly

 Large Red Damselfly

 Cormorants

Common Tern with fish

 Common Terns

 Common Terns

 Four-Spotted Chaser Dragonfly

 Meadow Brown Butterfly

 Nesting Swallow

 Kestrel

Kestrel

Photos

Here are some recent photos taken at Bangor, Comber Greenway and Belvoir Forest Park.

 Rock Pipit

 Grey Wagtail

 Dunnock

 Great Tit

 Mating Chaffinches

Blackbird

Whitehead and Portmuck

Today I went to Whitehead and Portmuck, Co. Antrim. I saw Peregrines, kestrels and fulmars at Whitehead and terns and a whitethroat at Portmuck. Here are the photos.

 Fulmar

 Fulmar

 Peregrine Falcon

 Peregrine Falcon

 Peregrine Falcon

 Peregrine Falcon

 Peregrine Falcon

 Peregrine Falcon

 Peregrine Falcon

 Rock Pipit

 Sandwich Tern

 Shag

 Whitethroat

Whitethroat

Belfast Lough Reserve

On Wednesday 4 June I went to Kinnegar and Belfast Lough Reserve. I saw a little gull, tufted ducks and common terns. Here are some photos.

 Black-tailed Godwit

 Tufted Duck

 Young Black-headed Gull

 Common Tern

Swallow