Many thanks to our photo contributors - Mícheál Casey, John Coveney, Seamus Enwright, Paul Kelly, Paul Moore, Michael O'Keeffe & Steve Wing.

Above) Little Ringed Plover, Ballycotton, Co.Cork, 28th April 2003 (Photo: Paul Moore).

Above) Corn Bunting, Cape Clear Island, Co.Cork, 27th April 2003 (Photo: Michael O'Keeffe).

Above) Corn Bunting, Cape Clear Island, Co.Cork, 27th April 2003 (Photo: Michael O'Keeffe).

Above) Turtle Dove, Cape Clear Island, Co.Cork, 27th April 2003 (Photo: Michael O'Keeffe).

Above) Hoopoe, Cape Clear Island, Co.Cork, 27th April 2003 (Photo: Michael O'Keeffe).

(Above) Male Garganey, Ring Marsh, Co.Wexford, 26th April 2003 (Photo: Paul Kelly).

(Above) Hoopoe, Carnsore Point, Co.Wexford, 26th April 2003 (Photo: Paul Kelly).

One of two birds in the area.

(Above) Hoopoe, Carnsore Point, Co.Wexford, 26th April 2003 (Photo: Paul Kelly).

(Above) Corn Bunting, Cape Clear Island, Co.Cork, 25th April 2003 (Photo: Steve Wing).

(Above) Unidentified warbler spp., Middleton, Co.Cork, 24th April 2003 (Photo: Paul Moore).

(Above) Unidentified warbler spp., showing worn tail and apparently white outer tail feathers, Middleton, Co.Cork, 24th April 2003 (Photo: Paul Moore).

(Above) Unidentified warbler spp., Middleton, Co.Cork, 24th April 2003 (Photo: Paul Moore).

(Above) Woodchat Shrike, Old Head of Kinsale, Co.Cork, 20th April 2003 (Photo: Seamus Enwright).

(Above) Pied Flycatcher, Carnsore Point, Co.Wexford, 20th April 2003 (Photo: Tom Shevlin www.wildlifesnaps.com).

(Above) Short-eared Owl, Carnsore Point, Co.Wexford, 20th April 2003 (Photo: Tom Shevlin www.wildlifesnaps.com).

(Above) Yellow Wagtail, Tacumshin, Co.Wexford, 20th April 2003 (Photo: Tom Shevlin www.wildlifesnaps.com).

(Above) Dark mantled Lesser Black-backed Gulls, top left and centre, either subspecies fuscus or intermedius, Ballycotton, Co.Cork, 13th April 2003 (Photo: John Coveney).

(Above) Hoopoe, Knockadoon, Co.Cork, 13th April 2003 (Photo: John Coveney).

(Above) Little Ringed Plover, Carnsore Point, Co.Wexford, 13th April 2003 (Photo: Paul Kelly).

(Above) Little Ringed Plover, Carnsore Point, Co.Wexford, 13th April 2003 (Photo: Paul Kelly).

(Above) Melanistic (or stained) Grey Heron, Carrowmore Lake, Co.Sligo, 3rd April 2003 (Photo:Mícheál Casey).

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