My friend emailed me yesterday from sunny Hampshire. Apparently the weather there is too hot for her!! As for me in Belfast, well I am having to take a hot water bottle to bed every night to keep me warm!!! But despite the cooler weather, I am having a great time over here and I definitely wouldn't want to be anywhere else......
Donaghadee
Donaghadee lighthouse
I've been busy visiting my relatives, so I haven't been out birding as such....but on Wednesday we were driving along the coast road from Bangor to Donaghadee, when my nephew saw a bird sitting on a wall and asked if I knew what it was. I looked over and was pleased to see a Black Guillemot, a bird I had never seen before. We parked the car and walked back for a better look, and found not one, but eight Black Guillemots. Absolutely beautiful birds, with their bright red feet and large white wing patches.
black guillemots
Then further along the coast I noticed a group of ten gannets, plunge diving into the sea..... pretty impressive stuff.
gannet
145. black guillemot
146. gannet
2 comments:
Welcome to chilly - and rather damp - Northern Ireland. You missed our good weather, because summer was in May this year!!
Enjoy your birding. By the way, is a hooded crow the same as what I know as a grey crow?
Thank you for the welcome.
At a guess I would say a hooded crow is the same as a grey crow.
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