A selection of shots from the last two months or so, mostly colour ringed birds. Nothing of note in Connemara since the White-rumped Sandpiper., any day now ...
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| Ruff, Gortnagarryaun Strand, Co. Mayo. |
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| Juvenile Ruff, Gortnagarryan Strand, Co. Mayo. |
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| Adult Little Stint, Omey Strand. |
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| Adult Little Stint, Omey Strand. |
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| W3YBYG Sanderling ringed in Parc Nationale du Banc d'Arguin, Mauritania, 3rd Dec 2015. Seen at Gortnagarryan Strand, Co. Mayo, 6th August 2017. |
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| R7RYRY Sanderling ringed in west Ghana, 10th Sept 2015. Seen at Gortnagarryan Strand, Co. Mayo, 6th August 2017. |
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| G3RBYG Sanderling, Omey Strand, here last autumn also. |
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| G1RRRW Sanderling, Omey Strand, returning bird since 2011. Has lost a green flag on left tarsus. |
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| Sanderling colour ringed on North Ronaldsay, Scotland this May seen at Omey Strand. |
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| G3YWBW Sanderling, Mannin Bay, here last autumn also. |
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| G3RRWB Sanderling, Mannin Bay, here last autumn also. |
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| A rather bedraggled Golden Plover |
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| Icelandic colour-ringed Oystercatcher, Ballyconneely Bay. This bird was re-colour ringed this summer in Iceland as some of the original rings had fallen off. |
