Category Archives: Scarce & Rare Bird Sightings

There were 98 Great Shearwaters, 165 Sooty Shearwaters, five Balearic Shearwaters, four adult Sabine’s Gulls, two Pomarine Skuas, 12 Arctic Skuas, 13 Bonxies and 75 Storm Petrels at the Bridges of Ross today.
A flock of 2.000 Black-tailed Godwits and four Little Egrets were the highlights on the mudflats at the Shannon Airport Lagoon this morning on high tide.

The White-rumped Sandpiper and a summer plumaged American Golden Plover were on the mudflats at the Shannon Airport Lagoon this evening (Chris ten Bohmer & Hans Derks).
At the Bridges of Ross today there were eight Arctic Skuas, one Bonxie , one juvenile Mediterranean Gull and a Leather-backed Turtle.

An adult White-rumped Sandpiper was on the mudflats at the Shannon Airport Lagoon this evening (John N Murphy), along with two juvenile Ruff, one Common Sandpiper, 60 Knot, 180 Dunlin, 150 Redshank and four Little Egrets.
The American Golden Plover is still at Doonbeg again today (Maurice Hanafin).
One adult Sabine’s Gull, one Pomarine Skua, one Bonxie and eight Arctic Skuas were at the Bridges of Ross.
Four Ruff, one Common Sandpiper and a male Hen Harrier were at Lough Atedaun, Corofin.
One Ruff and eight Little Egrets were at the Martelloe Tower at Aughinish Island.
Five Crossbills were at Gort Coirce, Dysert.
Two Raven were at Ballinruan.

The American Golden Plover was still at Doonbeg (Jeff Copner).
At the Bridges or Ross this afternoon there were two Sooty Shearwaters, four Arctic Skuas, one Pomarine Skua, two Whimbrel and 50 Arctic Terns.