Clare Bird Sightings

Sunday 9th August 2026

Between the Bridges of Ross and Ross Ringing Station (7.00 to 14.00) there were five Wilson’s Petrels, five Cory’s Shearwaters, one Great Shearwater, 20 Sooty Shearwaters, 39 Storm Petrels, three Puffin, one Common Scoter, one summer plumaged adult Mediterranean Gull and two Whimbrel. (John N Murphy & Ger Walsh)

This evening (16.45 to 18.30) off Ross Ringing Station there were six Cory’s Shearwaters, one Sooty Shearwater, one dark phased Arctic Skua, five Arctic Terns and eight Sandwich Terns. (JNM)

Four Common Sandpiper was at Islandavanna.(Chris Cullen)