Northern Wheatears & Wagtails

I came across a freshly sown and rolled field near Ballycastle in North Mayo this afternoon.  There was a flock of 60 Wheatear and a handful of White Wagtails. They were all mainly male Wheatears, and they appeared extremely colorful.  Most of the Wheatears looked like the race Oenanthe oenanthe luecorcora from Greenland.  Later in the evening I found a coastal field west of Killala Bay that had a flock of 70 White Wagtails and six pristine male Pied Wagtails.  These Pied Wagtails were probably migrating with the whites.

Grasshopper Warbler

Warblers were also very vocal today in North Mayo with a few singing male Sedge Warblers and plenty of Grasshopper Warblers reeling off their song.

Siskin

Again, today, while surveying an area of North Mayo, I came across pairs of Siskins as they came down by the roadsides gathering materials to build their nests.