At Loop Head today there were 20 Lapland Buntings, eight Wheatears, one juvenile Hen Harrier, one adult and one first-winter Mediterranean Gulls and two Swallows. (John N Murphy, Tom & Nuala Lynch and Jeff Copner)
At the Bridges of Ross this morning (9.30-13.30), there were four Arctic Skuas, one Bonxie, two Pomarine Skuas, three Great Shearwaters, two Sooty Shearwaters, 15 Brent Geese, six Red-throated Divers, two Common Scoter, 17 Chough and 1,000 Guillemots per hour. (Jim Bowman)
There was one Ruff and 40 Curlew at Cloghaun Lough. (Tom & Nuala Lynch and John N Murphy)
At the Bridges of Ross this afternoon (14.00 – 16.00) there was one adult and one juvenile Sabine’s Gulls, one second-year Long-tailed Skua, five Arctic Skuas, one Bonxie, two Sooty Shearwaters, one Leach’s Petrels, one Storm Petrel, 18 Arctic Terns, 16 Snipe, four Grey Phalaropes, 13 Brent Geese, two Red-throated Divers and two Peregrines. (John N Murphy, Nuala & Tom Lynch)