Clare Bird Sightings

Sunday 3rd October 2021

Sunday 3rd October 2021

An adult Black-throated Diver passing the Bridges of Ross © Jeff Copner

The four Egyptian Geese were at Doonbeg Bay this morning. (Jeff Copner & Myla Van Engelen)
At the Bridges of Ross there were over one Great Shearwater, 600 Sooty Shearwaters, 110 Manx Shearwater, two Pomarine Skua, 15 Bonxies, 24 Leach’s Petrels,  12 Storm Petrels, two Black-throated Divers, eight Red-throated Divers, nine Great Northern Divers, 26 Puffin, six Common Scoter, 11 Arctic Terns and two Grey Phalaropes. ( Aidan Kelly, John Coveney, Jeff Copner & John N Murphy)
Off Black Head there were two 2CY Little Gulls, 12 Bonxies, four Arctic Skuas, four Storm Petrels and five Mediterranean Gulls. (Paul Troake)
One Bonxie was at Doonbeg Bay. (John N Murphy & Aidan Kelly)
One Curlew Sandpiper was at Clonderlaw Bay. (Chris Cullen)