Clare Bird Sightings

Thursday 28th August 2025

A seawatch at the Bridges of Ross between 06.15-20.00 produced one Balearic Shearwater, over 650 Cory’s Shearwater, over 450 Great Shearwater, over 110 Sooty Shearwater, 20 Wilson’s Storm- petrel, 35 Leach’s Storm-petrel, 70 Storm-petrel, 252 Sabine’s Gull, one Little Gull(1cy), four Long-tailed Skua (3 adult/1 juvenile), 23 Pomarine Skua(all light morphs), 24 Arctic Skua (21 dark/1 light/2 juvenile), nine Great Skua(including one juvenile), one juvenile Black Tern, 25 Arctic Tern, one Common Tern, 26 Sandwich Tern, four Grey Phalarope, one Puffin, one Common Scoter and 23 Whimbrel.(Noel Keogh plus 17 observers)

There were 60 Sandwich Tern at high tide roost at the Inagh Estuary.(Geoff Pearson)