Clare Bird Sightings

Saturday 10th October 2026

Saturday 10th October 2026

This dark headed adult Herring Gull was an interesting looking bird at Kilkee John N Murphy

At the Bridges of Ross (08:00-17:00) there was one Long-tailed Skua ( juv), one Sabine’s Gull (ad), nine Leach’s Storm Petrel, 34 Grey Phalarope, 16 Sooty Shearwater, 120 Manx Shearwater, 13 European Storm Petrel, one Great Skua, one Arctic Skua (juv), 18 Puffin, one Common Scoter, 10 Arctic Tern (one adult), five Red-throated Diver, three Great Northern Diver, one Snow Bunting flew over and landed briefly and on rocks below one Purple Sandpiper.

BMcCloskey, KMullarney, AGKelly, DDickson, MGibson

One male Blackcap, two Willow Warblers, four Chiffchaff and 120 Rock Dove were at Kilbaha.(JNM)

The Pink-footed Goose, the Great White Egret and 70 Golden Plover were at Doonbeg.(Charlie Lyons, Chris Cullen & Tristan Cullen)

There were three Curlew Sandpiper at Seafield.(MG, DD, CL)

Another Curlew Sandpiper was at Kilkee.(JNM)

A Merlin, one Peregrine were at Loop Head Lighthouse. One Leach’s Petrel, one Sooty Shearwater, one Grey Phalarope, and one Red-throated Diver were off the tip of Loop Head.(CC & TC)

There were 115 Golden Plover were at the Fodry.(CC & TC)

Two Whooper, 135 Lapwing and 48 Black-tailed Godwit were at Ballyallia.(James Organ, Jakub Jaworski)