Chiffchaffs In My garden

Today 4 Chiffchaffs visited my garden. Here are some photos.

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Ards Peninsula

Last week I traveled around the Ards Peninsula, Co. Down and saw 3 Little Egrets and Brent Geese at Floodgates. Stonechats, Reed Bunting, Linnets and Meadow Pipits at Kearney.  Here are some photos.

 Little Egret

 Brent Geese

 Cormorant

 Robin with Caterpillar

 Meadow Pipit

 Stonechat

 Reed Bunting

 Linnet

County Donegal

Recently I stayed in Ramelton, Co. Donegal. I saw lots of birds including Treecreeper, Great Northern Diver, Red-Breasted Mergansers, Sandwich Tern, White Greylag, Black Swan, Canada Geese and Grey Heron. I also saw a Common Lizard at Ards Forest Park. Here are some photos.

 Grey Heron

 Pied Wagtail

 Sandwich Tern

 Great Northern Diver

 Common Lizard

 Razorbills

 Treecreeper

 Tadpoles

 Robin

 Female Chaffinch

 Scratching male Chaffinch

 Male Chaffinch

 Male Chaffinch

 Treecreeper

 Female Red-Breasted Merganser

 Male Red-Breasted Merganser

 Robin

Peacock Butterfly

Tyrella

Today I went to Tyrella and saw 100+ Sanderling, 4 Gannets, a Reed Bunting and a pair of Stonechats. Here are some photos.

 Stonechats

 Sanderling

  Sanderling

  Sanderling

  Sanderling

 Gannet

 Gannet

 Gannet

 Reed Bunting

 Male Stonechat

 Female Stonechat

Scrabo Country Park

Today I went to Scrabo Country Park and saw a pair of nesting Ravens and their chicks. Here are some photos of the Ravens and a Song Thrush.

 Song Thrush

  Song Thrush

 Raven with chicks

 Raven in flight

Raven

Work of NI Bird Photographers

On 18 March 2015 I won the Junior Category in the Work of NI Bird Photographers competition. It is organised by Northern Ireland Ornithologists' Club and all the winning photos can be seen at their website. www.nioc.co.uk/

My entries are shown below.

1st place - Kestrel

2nd place - Pied Wagtail

Commended - Meadow Pipit