At Ross Ringing Station this afternoon between 15.00-17.00 there was one Wilson’s Petrel, six Leach’s Petrels, five juvenile Sabine’s Gulls, one first-winter Little Gull, 57 Sooty Shearwaters, one dark phase Arctic Skua, four Red-throated Divers, 11 Arctic Terns, six Sandwich Terns and a Merlin. In Kilbaha there were 3 Willow Warblers. At the Plover Fields near Loop Head there were 50 Golden Plover. (John N Murphy)
Bridges of Ross 15.20-19.20. Fairly quiet to start but picking up with the wind toward dusk. One Wilsons petrel, 13 Leach’s Petrel, three European Storm Petrel, one Grey Phalarope, one adult Sabine’s Gull, 12 Arctic Skua, seven Great Skuas, c275 Sooty Shearwaters, 34 Arctic Terns, 11 Sandwich Terns and four Red-throated Divers. (Dan Pointon)
One 2CY Mediterranean Gull was at Kilkee. (JNM)
There were over 200 Greylag Geese in a field near Lough Muckanagh. (Maura Crowe)




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