Category Archives: Limerick Sightings

Yellow-legged Gull ©Tom Tarpey

An adult Yellow-legged Gull and two immature Mediterranean Gulls were at Loughill (TT).

Juvenile male Ruff ©Tom Tarpey

Five Ruff, 80 Teal and a Wigeon and 274 Lesser Black-backed Gulls were at were at Camas (TT).

Juvenile Ruff ©Geoff Hunt

Six Ruff (2m & 4f), 14 Snipe, six Lapwing, 84 Teal, 180 Lesser Black-backed Gulls and an adult Yellow-legged Gull were at Camas North, Bruff (Geoff Hunt & Tom Tarpey).

Juvenile White-tailed Eagles ©Tom Tarpey

A Spotted Redshank was at Camas, Bruff (Paidi Cullinane).
Two juvenile White-tailed Eagles were at Ballydonohue, Glin. These birds, tagged Red Right, Green Left, nos. 20 and 26, are part of this year’s release of introduced birds(TT).
202 Redshank, nine Greenshank, 50 Black-tailed Godwits, 13 Bar-tailed Godwits, a Common Sandpiper , three Mediterranean Gulls, 39 Little Egrets and a Buzzard were at Tarbert Bay (TT).
73 Ringed Plover, 33 Oystercatchers, 20 Curlew, six Dunlin and five Turnstone were roosting at high tide near Glin (TT).