Category Archives: Scarce & Rare Bird Sightings

Sunday 4th September 2022

At the Bridges of Ross there was one Arctic Skua, 61 Sandwich Terns and a Green Sandpiper.(Mark Gibson, Bob Kenworthy & Kev Crowley)
A female Merlin was chasing Meadow Pipits in Ross Bay. (MG, BK & KC)
A male Hen Harrier was seen quartering fields near Anvil farm.(MG, BK & KC)
At Seafield there were two Little Stint and nine Curlew Sandpipers.(MB, BK & KC)
At Lough Donnell there was one Little Stint on the beach by the slipway. (MG, BK & KC)
At Clonderalaw this morning there were 12 Great-crested Grebes, 12 Little Egrets, 50 Mallard, 27 Oystercatchers, 134 Black-headed Gulls and a Chiffchaff in song.(Chris & Tristan Cullen)
At Killimer this there was one adult Mediterranean Gull, seven Sandwich Tern and 59 Black-headed Gulls. (Tristan & Chris Cullen)


Saturday 3rd September 2022

Saturday 3rd September 2022

Curlew Sandpipers at Seafield John N Murphy

The juvenile Black Tern was still at Ballyallia this morning.(Austin Cooney)
There were two Little Stints, 30 Curlew Sandpipers and one White Wagtail at Seafield, Quilty. (John N Murphy & Finbar MacGabhainn)
One Sabine’s Gull and two Little Gulls were at the Bridges of Ross this morning.
One Balearic Shearwater was at the Bridges also. (Mark Gibson)


Friday 2nd September 2022

Friday 2nd September 2022

Little Stint at Seafield John N Murphy

The Pectoral Sandpiper, one Little Stint and 15 Curlew Sandpipers were at Seafield, Quilty.(Neal Warnock)
At the Bridges of Ross today there were four Balearic Shearwaters, 14 Sooty Shearwaters one Long-tailed Skua, 12 Arctic Skuas, three Bonxies, two Black Terns and two Puffins. (Des Higgins)


Thursday 1st September 2022

Thursday 1st September 2022

Black Tern at Ballyallia John N Murphy

A juvenile Black Tern was at Ballyallia Lake.(Finbar MacGabhann, John N. Murphy, James Organ, Nuala and Tom Lynch and Stan Nugent)
A Pectoral Sandpiper, two Little Stint and seven Curlew Sandpiper were at Seafield, Quilty.(Jeff Copner)


Wednesday 31st August 2022

A Pectoral Sandpiper was at Seafield, Quilty.(Neil Warnock)
Two Curlew Sandpipers were at the Shannon Airport Lagoon within a flock of 40 Dunlin.(John N Murphy)
A Kingfisher at the White Strand.(Adrian Glasgow)


Tuesday 30th August 2022

Four Sabine’s Gull, a Cory’s Shearwater, six Great Shearwater, over a hundred Sooty Shearwater, a thousand plus Manx Shearwater, over 200 Storm Petrel, a juvenile Arctic Skua, one Bonnie and six Arctic Tern were recorded during a Pelagic off Loop Head.(N.T. Keogh, N. Keogh, M. Sarda, N. Warnock, D. Higgins, J. Adamson, J. Creamer, F.Gibson)
A Kingfisher was at Doonbeg.(John Dixie Collins)


Monday 29th August 2022

A juvenile Long-billed Dowitcher was at the mouth of the Skivileen River, Doonbeg along with 16 Bar-tailed Godwits and two Kingfishers. (John N Murphy)
One Common Sandpiper and one first-wi ter Mediterranean Gull were at Clarecastle Quay. (JNM)


Saturday 27th August 2022

One Wilson’s Petrel was at the Bridges of Ross, along with ten Cory’s Shearwaters, ten Great Shearwaters, 50 Sooty Shearwaters, three Arctic Skuas, 15 sandwich Terns and three Hump-backed Whales. (Noel Keogh, John N Murphy et al)


Wednesday 24th August 2022

At the Bridges of Ross today 6.30-19.00 there were two Wilson’s Petrel, 80+ Cory’s Shearwaters 30+, Great Shearwater, two Balearic Shearwaters, two Long-tail Skuas, one Bonxie, three Pomarine Skuas, 12 Arctic Skuas, two Leach’s petrel, ten Storm Petrels, 30 Sabine’s Gulls and three Grey Phalaropes. (Des Higgins et al)
One Mediterranean Gull was at Clarecastle Quay and a Kingfisher was at Ballycorrick Bridge.(Chris & Alex Cullen)
One Whooper Swan was at Ballyallia Lake. (per Irish birding.com)


Monday 22nd August 2022

Monday 22nd August 2022

Great White Egret at Clarecastle Eric Shaw

There was an adult Great White Egret at Clarecastle Quay this morning. (Eric Shaw)


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