Clare Bird Sightings

Saturday 29th August 2015

One Quail was seen along a roadside near Cross, Loop Head. (Brian McCluskey & Ger Murray)
At the Bridges of Ross there were 125 Manx Shearwaters per hour, 22 Sooty Shearwaters, five Leach’s Petrels, nine Storm Petrels, two Red-throated Divers, 18 Common Scoter, 15 Bonxies, 28 Arctic Skuas, one Pomarine Skua, seven juvenile Black Terns, 33 Sandwich Terns, 179 Whimbrel, two Bottle-nosed Dolphins, 15 plus Common Dolphins and up to four Ocean Sunfish. (Neal Warnock, Victor Caschera, Ger Murray, Brian McCluskey, Finbarr MacGabhann, Niall T Keogh, Rachel Hynes & Des Higgins)
There were nine Ruff at Lough Gash. (John N Murphy)
One Curlew Sandpiper, Ruff and 35 Whimbrel were at Seafield, Quilty. (Frank O Duffy)


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