A White-tailed Eagle was seen flying over St. Thomas’s Island, Parteen at midday and was seen again in the afternoon at the Tail Race/River Shannon confluence (Pat Lysaght). At the Bridges of Ross the seawatching was good today, between 7.15-2.15 there were three juv Long-tails (one flew in over houses), six Pomarine Skuas, 15 Arctic Skuas, 27 Bonxies, three juvenile Sabine’s Gulls , 44 Leach’s Petrels, c30 Storm Petrels, 17 Grey Phalaropes, 5 Puffins, a Black Guillemot and 112 Sooty Shearwaters. There was also a juvenile Sabine’s in Ross Bay. The adult American Golden Plover was on Kilkee beach until c2.30pm when it flew off out to sea by itself and was lost to view! Two Kingfishers were off he pier at Mountshannon. Six Curlew Sandpipers were off Knockbeg Point at the Shannon Airport Lagoon.
Leave a commentWednesday 18th September 2013
Sabine’s Gull with Black-headed Gull at Quilty © John N Murphy
A juvenile Sabine’s Gull and two Grey Phalaropes were at Quilty beach this evening (John N Murphy).
Leave a commentTuesday 17th September 2013
Grey Phalarope at Quilty © Dave Mc Namara
One Grey Phalarope was at Seafield, Quilty this morning . One WILSON’S PETREL was off Bridges of Ross 5.50pm-6.14pm then flew west (Tom Lowe et al). Also a juvenile Long-tailed Skua 5.10pm-7.10pm plus four Sabine’s Gulls (1.ad), three Pomarine Skuas (ad.dark morph ad.pale morph +imm), 15 Leach’s Petrels, four Grey Phalaropes, six Storm Petrels, 14 Arctic Skuas and six Bonxies. Two Pomarine Skuas (both ads) flew west past Bridges of Ross early morning along with six Arctic Skuas, two Bonxies and one Ruff. The AMERICAN GOLDEN PLOVER adult was still at Kilkee near the west end of beach at 12.45pm, along with one juvenile Little Stint (Tom Lowe et al). One juvenile Sabine’s Gull was off river mouth at Doonbeg. One second-winter Ring-billed Gull was at Quilty on beach along with six Grey Phalaropes one Leach’s Petrel at Seafield flew inland plus five Grey Phalaropes and one juvenile Curlew Sandpiper. One REDSTART was on the west side of Poulnasherry Bay. A adult Hobby was at Kilmacredy, Liscannor (Dave McNamara).
Leave a commentTuesday 10th September 2013
A second-winter Ring-billed Gull and one first-winter Mediterranean Gull were at Quilty Beach. A flock of 200 Linnets were at Seafield.
Leave a commentMonday 9th September 2013
At the Bridges of Ross there was one Balearic Shearwater, 441 Sooty Shearwaters, 1,100 Mank Shearwaters, one Leach’s Petrel, seven Storm Petrels, 10 Common Scoter, 22 Bonxies, 18 Arctic Skuas, one juvenile first-winter Little Gull, 17 Sandwich Terns, 11 Arctic Terns, one Black Tern and one Puffin. One Spotted Redshank was at Moyasta Creek.
Leave a commentSunday 8th September 2013
Little Stint at Liscannor ©Tom Tarpey
Three Curlew Sandpipers were at Seafields, Quilty.
A Little Stint and three Wheatears were at Liscannor.
A Whimbrel was at Clehane.
Thursday 5th September 2013
There were 14 Curlew Sandpipers and 16 Little Egrets at the Shannon Airport Lagoon this evening.
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