Category Archives: Limerick Sightings

A Common Sandpiper was at Foynes yacht club (TT).
A Whooper Swan, a Scaup, 32 Wigeon, 20 Shoveler, 14 Gadwall, two Teal, five Mallard, six Mute Swans, 147 Coot, nine Little Grebes, four Curlew, two Ravens and a Kestrel were at Coonagh (TT).
Seven Jays were at Curraghchase (TT).
A Buzzard was at Mungret(TT).

Three Cattle Egrets were at Bunlicky today (TT).
A Norwegian Common Gull, White J8JL, was seen at Sarsfield Lock (Geoff Hunt). The bird was ringed as a chick near Oslo on 9/7/12 and last seen there on 14/7/16. It’s the second Norwegian colour-ringed Common Gull seen in Limerick this year.

A Barn Owl was a road casualty at Kilcoorha, Broadford (Joe Meehan).

The four Cattle Egrets were back at the cement factory entrance today. A Buzzard was also present (John N Murphy).
Three Little Egrets were seen in the fields near the county boundary at Coonagh (JNM).
A Hawfinch was at the upper playground in Curraghchase (JNM).