It is a corncrake!

As reported in last week's Times, the glass decorator who runs a firm called Kingfisher Design, heard a very rare sound near his business premises at Fivey Road.

He suspected it may have been a corncrake - one of the rarest birds in Northern Ireland.

And he recorded the sound on his mobile phone which he was able to play to others. That's what clinched it.

When Lawrence spoke to the Times last week that he suspected it was a corncrake we got in touch with the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds who eagerly contacted him.

Lawrence even made an appearance on BBC radio and went along to the broadcaster's Ballymena studios were he played the sound of his recording down the line and an RSPB official confirmed the sound was that of a corncrake.

Afterwards Lawrence told the Times: "There were a few 'doubting Thomases' who didn't believe I had heard a corncrake but a lady from the RSPB said yes it was definately the sound of a corncrake so I am very pleased."

Even though his discovery of the corncrake at Stranocum made the news Lawrence said he has no plans to change the word Kingfisher in his business title to Corncrake.

Although he joked that if anyone wants a corncrake design on glass he is the man for the job!