Clare Bird Sightings

Saturday 21st February 2015

Saturday 21st February 2015

Adult Ring-billed Gull at Clarecastle John N Murphy

One drake SURF SCOTER was off Gleninagh, Black Head this morning along with 25 Black-throated Divers and 14 Common Scoter. (John N Murphy & Finbarr MacGabhann)
Two Spotted Redshank and three adult Mediterranean Gulls were at Corronroo Bay. (Finbarr MacGabhann)
There was a dark-bellied Brent Goose, 60 Pale-bellied Brent Geese, four Little Egrets and 200 Common Gulls in Ballyvaughan Bay. (John N Murphy & Finbarr MacGabhann)
There were three Iceland Gulls at Lahinch. (Jeff Copner)
Seven Long-tailed Ducks were at Kinvarra Point. (John N Murphy & Finbarr MacGabhann)
One Sandwich Tern was at Doorus Pier along with two Black-throated Divers.(John N Murphy & Finbarr MacGabhann)
There were 160 Brent Geese, 22 Grey Plover and 160 Ringed Plover at Aughinish. (John N Murphy & Finbarr MacGabhann)
One adult Ring-billed Gull was at Clarecastle Quay this evening. (John N Murphy)
Twenty Purple Sandpiper were among a flock of around 400 Dunlin, Sanderling, Turnstone and Ringed Plover at Seafield, Quilty. Three hundred Barnacle Geese were on Mutton Island.(Brian Finnegan, Austin Cooney, Tom Lynch et al at the Clare Branch outing)


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