First stop is to visit Doorly Park, on the Garavogue River, Sligo.
The light is very poor.
Goldeneye, a pair
Into Sligo where the Garavogue River meets the sea, we see
Little Grebe,
Little Egret
Great Crested Grebe
Teal
Black-tailed Godwit
Back up river a bit, back in Doorly Park again, GULLS.
Iceland Gull, 2nd winter, 1
Iceland Gull, 3rd winter, 1
Common Gull, 1
Black-headed Gulls, many
Its raining now, no light, into the car, we head off north of Sligo towards Killybegs.
On route, we stop off at Ballygigan, Lissadell Nature Reserve, still raining.
No getting out of the car, observed from the car
Barnacle Geese, 500 +
Shovellor
futher up the coastline we added to our ''numbers'' list
Greenshank, Goldfinch and House Sparrow,
We arrived at Killybegs about midday, the rain has stopped, the sky is clearing a bit.
On the roofs and in the harbour
Iceland Gull, 3rd winter, 1
Glaucous Gull, 1
Great Black-backed Gull
Herring Gull, 1000's here
Black-headed Gull, 1000's
Black Guillemot, 1st winter, 2
Its all very distant at this location and despite touring the entire fishing village several times, we could only find 1 Glaucous and 1 Iceland Gull
Its now 16.30 hours and light is fading again.
Rather dissapointed we make a 'BIG DECISION', Where do we go tomorrow.
Decision made, sat nav set, here we go !
148 miles to Ardglass, County Down, Northern Ireland, a very hard drive, we arrive at 21.00 hours.
On arrival at Downpatrick, 7 miles short of Ardglass, M.S. organises the b and b, the worst sausage and chips you could possibly get, the cooking oil smelt 'grim'.
Day over, in bed asleep by 23.00 hours.
A cracking day and all ready on site for an early start tomorrow ! !
Great pics Richard, sounds like a standard birding trip!!! :-)
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