Local Beach Birds

 A short walk with the kids at Lahinch beach during a brisk morning will always find few local birds in there habitats , Wagtails ,Stonechats and Rock Pipits on the Rocks, the Black headed Gulls in their regular spot on the reef and Cormorants and Red throated Divers chase fish in the shallows and were giving a winter feel to the beach.

Pied Wagtail

Red throated Diver

Black headed Gull

Cormorant

Rock Pipit

Clahane evening -Hightide and flies

The Flies

Redshank covered in flies

 Billions of flies were pushed up onto the sea walls at Clahane ,producing food for a variety of birds on land and in the sea, there must have been an abundance of feeding  fish as well to attract a Bottlenose Dolphin.

Bottlenose Dolphin

A large flock of Herring Gull and Kittiwake had come into the cove for the feeding and  50 Pied Wagtail were along side the road.

Kittiwake

50 Pied Wagtails

 The wading bird and the birds that roost on the shoreline here had lost there place due to the hightide, pushing them up close the road , they searched for roosting areas late into the evening,

Oystercatchers

View to Hags head from Clahane

Theres nothing like an evening at your local patch.

On the shore of Clahane

A few Purple sandpipers gather on the incoming tide. Pied wagtails pick of flys around a rotting Dolphin

Quilty Wagtails

 
The difference between Pied and White Wagtails shown here on the Quilty shoreline

Pied wagtail `yarrellii`

A pair of  Pied wagtails courting at Clahane.