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Boa Island

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Various

Castle Archdale

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Bays, islands and woodlands

Castle Caldwell

Used to have breeding Common Scoter. Extensive woodland

Castlecaldwell /Lower Lough Erne

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Breeding waders, gulls and terns(Sandwich and common); wintering wildfowl including regular scaup, wigeon. Castlecaldwell occasionally has crossbill plus occasional singing wood warbler. Spring wader passage light but includes black-tailed godwit, whimbrel, occasional ruff, greenshank. Recent scarce visitors have included black tern (has bred '70s); Mediterranean gull, marsh harrier, little gull, ruff, great northern diver. Rares have included American wigeon, red-necked grebe and UK/Ireland's first Wilson's petrel in 1891.

Crom National Trust Estate

Possibly the most reliable and easiest access to garden warblers in spring, wintering wildfowl whooper swans and has included smew and the Baikal teal in Jan '67 (wild?); annual osprey records

Drumgay Lough

Waterfowl occasionally including scarce species e.g.long-tailed duck, smew, scaup; always a possibility of something rarer

Enniskillen tip

Good for winter gulls including glaucous, Iceland and other possibilities

Lower Lough Macnean

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An area near Gortatole with wintering Greenland White-fronted geese, whooper swans, wigeon, curlew, hen harrier, overhead peregrine, raven occasional merlin

Pettigoe Plateau

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Upland birds

Upper Lough Erne

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Upper Lough Erne is difficult to watch as there is poor access but wintering wildfowl including internationally important numbers of whooper swans, occasional gargany in spring, wood sandpiper in spring and green-winged teal have been recorded. Olderrecord of hobby.