A tiny bird that flew 3,000 miles from Siberia, Mongolia or northeast China has been spotted in a garden on the Ards Peninsula.
Ulster Wildlife say their nature reserves officer Ronald Surgenor waited patiently for five hours to catch the Pallas’s leaf warbler on camera.
Named after German zoologist Peter Simon Pallas, who first formally described it, the little bird is a “very rare visitor” as the species has only been seen in Northern Ireland twice before.
