Clare Bird Sightings

Tuesday 13th August 2024

At 08.24 a Fea’s Petrel flew south past the Bridges of Ross.(Daniel Mantle, Ger Murray)

A Scopoli’s Shearwater was close in off the Bridges of Ross at 11.45.(John N. Murphy et al)

A ringed Oystercatcher was at Seafield. (left leg, Black over Red, right leg, White JE ) This bird was ringed as an adult on the nest in SW Iceland and has wintered in Seafield area in recent years. (Jeff Copner, Tom Tarpey)

Along with the above, the  seawatch from the Bridges of Ross between 05.50-16.50 produced 18  Wilson’s Storm Petrel, 40  European Storm Petrel, 11 Grey Phalarope, one Balearic Shearwater, 40 Great Shearwater, 60 Sooty Shearwater, one Long-tailed Skua, two Great Skua, one Pomarine Skua, seven Arctic Skua, 30 Sabine’s Gull, 2200 Cory’s Shearwater, 21000 Manx Shearwater  48 Whimbrel, 42 Arctic Tern and 20 Common Scoter.(Dan Mantle, Ger Murray, John Cusack, JNM, Éanna O Flynn, Ray Glynn et al)


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