Monthly Archives: December 2019

Sunday 29th December 2019

Six Snow Bunting were close to Loop Head Lighthouse.(Sean Doherty)

Monday 30th December 2019

Two Hawfinches, two Brambling, a Chiffchaff, 250 Chaffinches and three Buzzards were at Curraghchase Forest Park (TT).
A Green Sandpiper, three Greenshank, five Redshank and five Little Egrets were on the Maigue Estuary at Adare (TT).

Sunday 29th December 2019

42 Whooper Swans, 227 Wigeon, 70 Teal, 40 Shoveler, 26 Gadwall, 42 Tufted Duck, two Buzzards and a Peregrine Falcon were at Lough Gur (Tony Mee).
51 Tufted Duck. a Pochard and a Blackcap were at Westfields (Niall Keogh).
20 Little Egrets were at Grange Bridge (Andrew Holmes).

Saturday 28th December 2019

The Spotted Redshank was still at Ballyallia Lake.(Páidí Cullinan)

Friday 27th December 2019

Two Green Sandpiper were north-east of O’Brien’s Bridge along the canal.(Paul Troake)

Thursday 26th December 2019

A flock of 28 Snow Bunting were at Doughmore Strand.(John Collins)

Wednesday 25th December 2019

Five Snow Bunting, six Black-throated Diver, 94 Common Scoter and a Brent Goose(white band with inscription C on right leg and red band with inscription 4 on left leg) were at the Rine, Ballyvaughan.(Páidí Cullinan)
Twenty one Common Scoter and 10 Black-throated Diver were off Coolshiva Pier.(PC)
Two Long-tailed Duck, eight drake Scaup and one female were at Ardclooney.(Paul Troake)

Saturday 28th Decemnber 2019

Two Hawfinches were at Curraghchase (Ian O’Connor).

Friday 27th December 2019

50 Tufted Duck, a Pochard, seven Mallard and two Blackcaps were seen at Westfields during the annual Limerick Branch Christmas outing. A Redshank was also seen at Clancy’s Strand along with 25 Oystercatchers at King’s Island (Maura Turner, TT et al.)

Thursday 26th December 2019

An Polish colour ringed adult Black-headed Gull, Yellow TLW5, was the Lax Weir, Corbally (TT). The bird was ringed as an adult on 15/5/2019 at Lubczyna in north western Poland, close to the German border, 1551km from Limerick. This is the second eastern European Black-headed Gull recorded in Limerick this winter.
50 Tufted Duck, two Pochard, eight Mallard and five Mute Swans were at Westfields (TT).

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