Category Archives: Limerick Sightings

At Coonagh this afternoon there were seven Gadwall, four Wigeon, ten Pochard, 12 Mallard, 42 Tufted Duck, a Snipe, a Greenshank, a Black-tailed Godwit, a Little Egret, five Great-crested Grebes as well as numerous Little Grebes, Coot and Moorhen.

A Peregrine was at Tarbert Bay.

A juvenile Black Tern was seen on the upper lagoon at Coonagh this evening. The bird settled down to roost on a patch of floating vegetation. Other birds of note there were two Shoveler, ten Pochard, two Gadwall, a Wigeon and a Little Egret.
64 Ringed Plover, 12 Dunlin and six Turnstone were at a high tide roost at Glin Pier.

Eleven Common Sandpipers were at Poulaweela Creek.
Single Common Sandpipers were at Beagh Castle and New Quay, Askeaton.
Four Little Egrets were at Robertstown east.
22 Tufted Duck, nine Pochard, three Gadwall, three Mallard, two Wigeon, a Shoveler, 32 Black-tailed Godwits, five Great-crested Grebes, 34 Little Grebes, 294 Coot, 25 Moorhen, eight Mute Swans and a pair of Ravens were at Coonagh.

A Hobby was seen close to the Morningstar River just south of Garryspillane today (Tony Mee). This is the second record for the species in Limerick, the first being at Lough Gur on 18/8/1989.