Bird Records 2009

The following records were accepted for 2009:

 

Species	Number, age, sex	Location	County	First date	Last date	Observer
Amercican Wigeon	Male	Ballycarry Bridge, Larne Lough	Antrim	03-May-09	04-May-09	Cameron Moore
Bittern	One	Flurrybridge	Armagh	08-Jan-09		James Robinson
Whiskered Tern	Adult	Quoile Pondage	Down	26-Apr-09		Keith Bennett
Black-necked Grebe	Two summer adults	Lough Shark	Armagh/Down	09-May-09	23-May-09	Joe Devlin
Little Ringed Plover	First summer	Ardilea, Dundrum Inner Bay North	Down	20-Sep-09	04-Oct-09	Dan Baillie
American Golden Plover	Moulting adult	Ballykelly, Lough Foyle	Londonderry	26-Sep-09		Chris Murphy
Red-necked Grebe	One	Herring Bay, Strangford Lough	Down	03-Jan-09	14-Feb-09	Richard Weyl
Buff-breasted Sandpiper	Five	Myroe Levels, Lough Foyle	Londonderry	13-Sep-09	28-Sep-09
Lesser Whitethroat	One	East Light, Rathlin Island	Antrim	08-Oct-09		Neal Warnock
Fea's Petrel	One	Ramore Head	Antrim	25-Oct-09		Neal Warnock
Dotterel	Juv/first winter	Kirkiston	Down	25-Oct-09	30-Oct-09
American Golden Plover	Juvenile	Kirkiston and Portavogie	Down	28-Oct-09	29-Oct-09
Long-billed Dowitcher	Juvenile	Mullagh, Lough Beg	Londonderry	14-Sep-09		David Steele
Long-billed Dowitcher	Juvenile	Mullagh, Lough Beg	Londonderry	08-Nov-09	22-Nov-09	David Steele
Hobby	Adult	Colin Top, Antrim Plateau	Antrim	21-May-09		David Steele
Little Auk	One	Rossclare Bay	Fermanagh	23-Nov-09		John Wilson
Red-necked Grebe	One	Macedon Point	Antrim	15-Oct-09	19-Oct-09	Kerry Leonard
Little Auk	Seven	The Maidens	Antrim	28-Nov-09		David Galbraith
American Golden Plover	Moulting adult	Broighter Road, Myroe Levels	Londonderry	30-Aug-09	18-Sep-09
"Lesser Golden Plover"	One	Unnamed Bay 1km S of Donaghadee	Down	06-Dec-09		James Robinson
Red-necked Grebe	One	Herring Bay, Strangford Lough	Down	13-Dec-09		James Robinson
Lesser Whitethroat	One singing	Quoile Pondage	Down	22-Apr-09	22-May-09	Chris Murphy
Great Shearwater	One	Copeland Bird Observatory	Down	13-Aug-09		Kerry Leonard