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Description
Ballyness Bay is a beautiful shallow tidal bay with sand bars and river channels, rocky and sandy shorelines, surrounded by a variety of habitats including meadows, small reedbeds, saltmarsh, heath, trees machair and grey dunes. Various access and viewing points around the bay. Magnificent scenery and seascapes. Otters and seals. Among the birds that have been seen here are Brent Goose, Mute Swan, Whooper Swan, Common Shelduck, Eurasian Wigeon, Common Teal, Common Eider, Red-breasted Merganser, Common Cuckoo, Corn Crake, Eurasian Oystercatcher, European Golden Plover, Northern Lapwing, Common Ringed Plover, Whimbrel, Eurasian Curlew, Bar-tailed Godwit, Ruddy Turnstone, Sanderling, Sanderling, Common Sandpiper, Common Greenshank, Common Redshank, Great Skua, Black Guillemot, Arctic Tern, Common Tern, Sandwich Tern, Great Northern Diver, Northern Gannet, Little Egret, Long-eared Owl, Eurasian Kestrel Merlin, Peregrine Falcon, Red-billed Chough, Common Raven, Coal Tit, Eurasian Skylark, Reed Warbler, Grasshopper Warbler, Blackcap, Goldcrest, Eurasian Treecreeper, European Stonechat, Northern Wheatear, Grey Wagtail, Meadow Pipit ,Rock Pipit, Pied Wagtail, Brambling, Eurasian Bullfinch, Greenfinch, Linnet, Lesser Redpoll, European Goldfinch, Eurasian Siskin, Snow Bunting, Yellowhammer and Reed Bunting
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Access
Access by foot, car parking at several points around the bay.