Yellow-legged Gull ©Tom Tarpey
An adult Yellow-legged Gull and two immature Mediterranean Gulls were at Loughill (TT).
Monday 18th September 2023
Juvenile male Ruff ©Tom Tarpey
Five Ruff, 80 Teal and a Wigeon and 274 Lesser Black-backed Gulls were at were at Camas (TT).
Sunday 17th September 2023
Yellow-legged Gull ©Tom Tarpey
Six Ruff were still at Camas North today along with five Lapwing, seven Snipe, three Ringed Plover, a Black-tailed Godwit, 60 Teal and 500 Lesser Black-backed Gulls (Geoff Hunt).
An adult Yellow-legged Gull was at Clancy’s Strand (TT).
Friday 15th September 2023
Juvenile Ruff ©Geoff Hunt
Six Ruff (2m & 4f), 14 Snipe, six Lapwing, 84 Teal, 180 Lesser Black-backed Gulls and an adult Yellow-legged Gull were at Camas North, Bruff (Geoff Hunt & Tom Tarpey).
Thursday 14th September 2023
Six Ruff, three Snipe, six Lapwing, 60 Teal, a Black-tailed Godwit and 45 Lesser Black-backed Gulls were at Camas North, Bruff (Geoff Hunt).
Tuesday 12th September 2023
Juvenile White-tailed Eagles ©Tom Tarpey
A Spotted Redshank was at Camas, Bruff (Paidi Cullinane).
Two juvenile White-tailed Eagles were at Ballydonohue, Glin. These birds, tagged Red Right, Green Left, nos. 20 and 26, are part of this year’s release of introduced birds(TT).
202 Redshank, nine Greenshank, 50 Black-tailed Godwits, 13 Bar-tailed Godwits, a Common Sandpiper , three Mediterranean Gulls, 39 Little Egrets and a Buzzard were at Tarbert Bay (TT).
73 Ringed Plover, 33 Oystercatchers, 20 Curlew, six Dunlin and five Turnstone were roosting at high tide near Glin (TT).
Saturday 9th September 2023
Great White Egret ©Geoff Hunt
A Great White Egret was seen at Loughill during the local BWI branch outing (Geoff Hunt et al.).This is the first verified record of the species in Limerick.
Monday 4th September 2023
One Buzzard was soaring over the Rathkeale by-pass. (Nuala and Tom Lynch)
Wednesday 30th August 2023
Juvenile Spotted Redshank at Charleville Lagoons John N Murphy
One Spotted Redshank, three Green Sandpipers, one Common Sandpiper, two Ruff, two Ringed Plover, a Pochard and a Kingfisher were at the Charleville Lagoons (John N Murphy).
A Buzzard was at Patrickswell. (JNM).
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