Great Egret at Doonbeg John N Murphy

At the Bridges of Ross today (08:00-18:00) there were four Little Auk (BMcC, KM DD, MG, et al), two Long-tailed Skua (ad + juv), six Sabine’s Gull (2 ad-type + 4 juvs), 60 Leach’s Storm Petrel, 165 Grey Phalarope, five Pomarine Skuas, 52 Great Shearwaters, 194 Sooty Shearwaters, c200 Manx Shearwater, 131 European Storm Petrel,16 Great Skua,11 Arctic Skua, one Little Gull (1cy), c250 Puffin (many adults), two Common Scoters, 54 Arctic Terns (all juveniles), one Sandwich Tern, seven Red-throated Divers, one Great Northern Diver, one Common Snipe (west), one Greenshank and a juvenile Merlin.

Several thousand auks split approx 80:20 Razorbill to Guillemot. Several ‘northern’ Guillemots (nominate aalge) were seen.

BMcCloskey, KMullarney, JNMurphy, DDickson, MGibson

There was one Great Egret still at Doonbeg. (John N Murphy)

A juvenile Black Tern was at Silver Strand, Killard. (JNM)

The Turtle Dove was still at Cregg, Lahinch. (Eanna O Flynn & Cait O Neill)

There were ten Twite and 130 Golden Plover near Goleen. (JNM)

Three Curlew Sandpipers were at Seafield. (JNM)

A seawatch at Black Head (08.05-09.45) produced two Arctic Skuas, five Storm Petrels, two Arctic Terns and one Grey Phalarope. (Paul Troake)

There were 20 Grey Phalaropes at Finvarra Point. (PT)

At Aughinish there were 32 Mediterranean Gulls, one Wheatear, 63 Golden Plover, 8 Pintail and six Sandwich Terns. (JO)

Two Arctic Terns were at Farrihy Bay. (,JNM)

One White-tailed Eagle was at Lough Muckanagh. (Maura Crowe)