Clare Bird Sightings

Monday 24th August 2015

There was one Cory’s Shearwater at the Bridges of Ross this morning, along with one juvenile Long-tailed Skua (P Simons), 13 Sooty Shearwaters, 700 Manx Shearwaters per hour, 13 Arctic Skuas, five Bonxies, two Storm Petrels, ten Arctic Terns, six Common Scoter and 65 Whimbrel. (John N Murphy. Neal Warnock, Victor Cashera et al)
There were 12 Ruff, one Green Sandpiper, four Little Egrets, 96 Black-tailed Godwits, five Snipe and a juvenile Peregrine at Lough Gash. (John N Murphy)
At Saints Island on the Shannon Estuary there were 16 Little Egrets. (John N Murphy)
There were ten Gadwall and one Wigeon in the Shannon Airport Lagoon. (John N Murphy)


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