Kinnegar

Today I went to Kinnegar where I saw a Curlew, Godwits and Redshank. RSPB Belfast Lough had Common Terns and Shelduck. Here are some photos.

 Common Tern

 Curlew and Lapwing

 Curlew

 Curlew and Godwit

 Godwit

 Curlew

 Curlew

Curlew

My garden

A Sparrowhawk has been visiting my garden lately. Here are some photos from my garden.

 Female Blackcap

 Spot the Sparrowhawk

 Spot the Sparrowhawk

Coal Tit

Scrabo/floodgates

Today I went to Scrabo and the floodgates in Newtownards. I saw 2 ravens, lots of house martins and a marbled white butterfly at Scrabo. At the floodgates there were lapwing, redshank, turnstone and a kestrel. Here are some photos.

 Peacock Butterfly

 Green-Veined White Butterfly

 Ravens

 Raven

 Lapwing

 Kestrel

Lapwing

Rocha Brava, Portugal

Last week I went on holiday to Portugal. I saw lots of birds and butterflies near our apartment including Kestrel, Peregrine, Woodchat Shrike, Sardinian Warbler, Azure-Winged Magpie, Yellow-Legged Gull, Spanish Sparrow, Serin, Alpine Swift plus Southern Gatekeeper, Wall Brown and Small Blue Butterfly.

 Peregrine

 White Stork

 Grey Mullet

 Kestrel

 Azure-Winged Magpie

 Yellow-Legged Gull

 Charpentiers Grasshopper

Jago's Grasshopper

 Greenfinch

 Carpenter Bee

 Common Blue

 Dragonfly

 Paper Wasp

( I was stung by one )

 Dragonfly

 Grasshopper

 Southern Gatekeeper

  Azure-Winged Magpie

  Azure-Winged Magpie

  Azure-Winged Magpie

 Sardinian Warbler

  Southern Gatekeeper

 Woodchat Shrike

 Woodchat Shrike

Woodchat Shrike

Lagoa Dos Salgados

While on holiday in Portugal I went to Lagoa Dos Salgados and saw Black-winged stilts, Avocets, Cattle Egret, Spoonbills, Great White Stork, Little Grebes, Kentish Plover, Crested Lark, Red-Rumped Swallows, Zitting Cisticolas, a Swallowtail butterfly and Spanish Terrapins. Here are some photos.

 Zitting Cisticola

 Azure-Winged Magpie

 Spanish Terrapin

 Little Grebe

 Swallowtail Butterfly

 Swallowtail Butterfly

 Red-Rumped Swallow

 Linnet

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 Avocet

 Cattle Egret

 Black-Winged Stilt

 Kentish Plover

 Spoonbills

 Avocet

 White Stork

 Avocet

  Kentish Plover

  Kentish Plover

 Crested Lark

Coot