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Keep up to date with the little chicksHeritage Council Funding
We have been informed that The Heritage Council will not be funding community projects this year - this probably means we will need to get funding from elsewhere - though time is now short! Any suggestions welcome! Breffni
read moreWarrenpoint Port proposing to dump dredge material in Carlingford Louth
Warrenpoint have undertaken a study to justify the dumping of huge amounts of dredge material, mainly mobile silt, in the middle of Carlingford Lough. This would undoubtedly have a devastating impact on wildlife in the lough, not to mention aquaculture. This egregious...
read moreEnd of Season 2018
It looks like 2018 was a bonanza season for terns in the irish sea with large numbers of chicks fedged at Groniant and Kilcoole despite problems with predators and storm Hector. Rockabill had a record number of roseate terns and it was reported that adults typically...
read moreNew Video of Baltray site by Maurice Connaghy
Maurice has produced a superb new video of the site at Baltray: Baltray Wildlife V2.mp4
read moreNew Signage
Thanks to our Polish friends for the new signs on the beach. We still have ten birds sitting and at least three or four chicks running around. We managed to ring a few chicks last week. Elsewhere in the Irish sea its turning into a boom year for little terns and other...
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We have had a mixed couple of weeks at Baltray. Early June we had nine nests with 23 eggs, one oystercatcher nest with two eggs and a dozen or so ringed plover nests in and around the enclosure. Of these three nests and six eggs were lost in a spring tide, though the...
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