Clare Bird Sightings

Monday 7th September 2026

At the Bridges between (06:30-13:30) there was one Wilsons Petrel, six Leach’s Petrels, 30 Storm Petrels, 25 Great Shearwater, 500 Sooty Shearwater, 300 Cory’s Shearwater, three Sabines Gulls (all juvs), eight Grey Phalarope, one Pomarine Skua, seven Bonxies, 15 Arctic Skua, one Puffin, seven Arctic Terns, 30 Sandwich Terns, four Red-throated Divers and ten Common Scoter. (David Dack et al)

Off Ross Ringing Station between (13.00-17.00) there was one Fea’s Petrel (14.08), five Wilson’s Storm Petrels, 11 Leach’s Petrel, 16 European Storm Petrels, 158 Cory’s Shearwaters, 174 Sooty Shearwaters, five Bonxies, two Arctic Skuas two Red-throated Divers, two Common Scoter, six Sandwich Terns and three Arctic Terns. ( John N Murphy)

One Wood Sandpiper, four Ruff, 16 Black-tailed Godwit, two Bar-tailed Godwit, one Knot, one Greenshank, two Redshank, one Kingfisher and 20 Dunlin were at Lough Atedaun this morning.(Stan Nugent, Nuala & Tom Lynch, James Organ)

There were two Curlew Sandpiper at Knock, Clonderlaw Bay.(JNM)

A ring-tailed Hen Harrier flew past Drumcliffe.(Maura Crowe)