Clare Bird Sightings

Saturday 7th January 2017

One Velvet Scoter, three Black-throated Divers, 19 Great Northern Divers, 50 Common Scoter, nine Long-tailed Duck one Sandwich Tern and 65 Golden Plover were at Aughinish Island causeway (Paul Troake & Finbarr MacGabhann).
Off Black Head near Gleninagh there were 41 Black-throated Divers, three Red-throated Divers, 27 Great Northern Diver, 15 Red-breasted Mergansers and 18 Common Scoter (FMacG).
At Bishop’s Quarter there was one Long-tailed Duck, 18 Great Northern Divers and 15 Common Scoter (FMacG).
There were 198 Brent Geese at Lough Murree (FMacG).
A flock of 14 Greylag Geese were at Lough Atedaun (FMacG).


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