My first hour or so out of the house was an opportunity for my 6 year old daughter to stretch her legs in a local playground a few hundred yards from our base in Lake City. Next up overhead the dark form of a turkey vulture gliding around, closely followed by several more and a black vulture in tow. In one of the trees at the playground another mo.

Monday, November 24, 2014. It was down south, I was dragged there, it was a good bird, etc etc. Also on the beach, a rather splendid Pied Wagtail. Friday, October 31, 2014.

Monday, 2 January 2017. 2017 New year new lists. The year has got off to a slow start as I did not set out on New Years Day to do a bird list. I spent January 1 in and around the garden and Bangor West and today was spent on a drive to Tollymore Forest Park and a walk. Nevertheless some good birds were spotted. The garden produced all that I expected including long-tailed tit and blackcap. The first on the patch in two year.