Clare Bird Sightings

Saturday 22nd September 2018

Saturday 22nd September 2018

A moulting adult American Golden Plover at Loop Head John N Murphy

There was an adult American Golden Plover in the Plover Fields at Loop Head this morning within a flock of 120 Golden Plover. (John N Murphy & Sean Pierce)
At the Bridges of Ross there was one adult Long-tailed Skua, one Balearic Shearwater, 150 Sooty Shearwaters, two Sabine’s Gulls, 15 Bonxies, 12 Arctic Skuas, three Storm Petrels, 20 Sandwich Terns, six Common Scoter, ten Red-throated Divers, two Great Northern Divers, one Great-crested Grebe, one Whimbrel and two Puffin. (SP & JNM)
One the rest of Loop Head there was one female Ring-tailed Hen Harrier, one Peregrine, three Sparrowhawk, two Wheatear, two Chiffchaff, one Willow Warbler, 60 Snipe and two Little Egrets. (JNM & SP)
One adult Ringed-billed Gull, two first-winter Mediterranean Gulls, one Kingfisher, ten Sandwich Terns and 40 Sanderling were on the beach at Kilkee. (JNM)
One Buzzard was at Ennistymon. (Dave McNamara)
One Buzzard was at Applewood, Ballycar. (JNM)


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