Yellow-legged Gull ©Tom Tarpey

An adult Yellow-legged Gull and a 1st winter Ring-billed Gull were on the Shannon at Mill Road, Corbally. The Yellow-legged Gull is the tenth record for the County. A Goosander flew down river from the Clare side of St.Thomas’s Island (TT).
A Danish ringed Black-headed Gull, White 6EM, was at Thomond Weir. The bird was ringed as a 3y+ adult male in eastern Copenhagen on 2/4/13 and was last seen in a central Copenhagen park on 30/3/16. This is the second Black-headed Gull from the same ringing site in Copenhagen in the past two years.(TT).
27 Shoveler, three Mallard, two Tufted Duck and a Snipe were at Healy’s Field (TT).
A Little Egret was at the Dublin Road bridge in the Groody Valley (TT).
20 Hawfinches and a Brambling were at Curraghchase (per Irishbirding).
Eight Whooper Swans were at Herbertstown (Andrew Holmes).
A Great Northern Diver, 156 Wigeon, 78 Shelduck, 42 Teal, eight Cormorants, 2,500 Golden Plover, 600 Dunlin, 500 Lapwing, 120 Curlew, 50 Black-tailed Godwits, 16 Bar-tailed Godwits, 18 Redshanks, five Greenshanks, six Ringed Plover, three Snipe and a Jack Snipe were at Morgans, Aughinish (Geoff Hunt).