Siberian Lesser Whitethroat at Connolly’s garden in Kilbaha village © John N Murphy

A Siberian Lesser Whitethroat was at Connolly’s Garden Kilbaha this afternoon.(Anthony Mee & John N Murphy)
Also at Loop Head there were three Yellow-browed Warblers, two Black Redstarts on the northern wall of the lighthouse, four Chiffchaff, one Merlin, five Goldcrest, 40 Song Thrush, one Buzzard, one Merlin, 30 Chaffinch, 22 Golden Plover and 15 Snipe.(JNM & AM)
A feeding frenzy of seabirds were plunge diving around a small whale just south of Kilbaha harbour with over 60 Sooty Shearwaters and ten Manx Shearwaters around lunchtime. (JNM)
Twenty Sooty Shearwater were off the tip of Loop Head early in the afternoon probably birds moving out of the mouth of the estuary.(AM)