Little Gull Geoff Hunt
A 2nd winter Little Gull and two Curlew Sandpipers were at Loughill (Geoff Hunt).
Thursday 10th September 2020
A Green Sandpiper was at Robertstown (TT).
A Ruff, 20 Knot and eleven Grey Plover were at Poularone (TT).
A Common Sandpiper was at Poulaweela Creek (TT).
A Whimbrel and a Portuguese colour-ringed Lesser Black-backed Gull, Blue M:023, were at Loghill (TT).
The Portuguese Gull was ringed at a rehabilitation centre in Quiaios on 17/9/2014, spent the summer of 2015 in Portugal and was seen in Sligo in August 2018.
Wednesday 2nd September 2020
Yellow-legged Gull Tom Tarpey
An adult Yellow-legged Gull was at Loghill (TT).
A Common Sandpiper was at Poulaweela Creek (TT).
A Kingfisher was at Robertstown (TT).
Tuesday 1st September 2020
Arctic Skua (Geoff Hunt)
An Arctic Skua, nine Sandwich Terns, a Common Tern, six Mediterranean Gulls and two juvenile White-tailed Eagles were at Tarbert Bay (Geoff Hunt)
Monday 31st August 2020
Juvenile White-tailed Eagle Yellow/Green H was seen at Ballydonoghoe, Tarbert Bay (TT). Adult winter and first winter Mediterranean Gulls were also seen in the Bay.
A Kingfisher was at Askeaton Quay (TT).
Sunday 30th August 2020
Two juvenile White-tailed Eagles, tagged G and J resp., were seen at Ballydonoghoe on the Limerick side of Tarbert Bay(Geoff Hunt). They are two of the four imported Norwegian juveniles released in the area last week. All have yellow tags on the right wing and green tags on the left wing, similar to the birds released on Lough Derg earlier in the month.
Saturday 29th August 2020
Two Hen Harrier were at Tooreenagreana near Lough Gay.(Nuala and Tom Lynch)
A Barn Owl was at Kilfinny.(Andrew Holmes)
Monday 24th August 2020
A Polish ringed juvenile Black-headed Gull (Blue T78H) was at Honan’s Quay (TT). The bird was ringed as a chick at small lake near Poznan in Wielkopolskie province in western Poland on June 4th last.
Thursday 20th August 2020
48 Gadwall, six Shoveler, three Wigeon, two Teal, four Pochard, five Tufted Duck and a Black-tailed Godwits were at Coonagh (TT).
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