Category Archives: Limerick Sightings

Sunday 5th January 2020

Buzzards were seen at Raheen and Plassey (Clodagh Glasgow).

Friday 3rd January 2020

Five Brambling were at Curraghchase (Sean Pierce).
21 Little Egrets were at Grange Bridge (TT).
A Buzzard was at Banemore (TT).

Thursday 2nd January 2020

A Buzzard was at Ballingarry (Andrew Holmes).

Monday 30th December 2019

Two Hawfinches, two Brambling, a Chiffchaff, 250 Chaffinches and three Buzzards were at Curraghchase Forest Park (TT).
A Green Sandpiper, three Greenshank, five Redshank and five Little Egrets were on the Maigue Estuary at Adare (TT).

Sunday 29th December 2019

42 Whooper Swans, 227 Wigeon, 70 Teal, 40 Shoveler, 26 Gadwall, 42 Tufted Duck, two Buzzards and a Peregrine Falcon were at Lough Gur (Tony Mee).
51 Tufted Duck. a Pochard and a Blackcap were at Westfields (Niall Keogh).
20 Little Egrets were at Grange Bridge (Andrew Holmes).

Saturday 28th Decemnber 2019

Two Hawfinches were at Curraghchase (Ian O’Connor).

Friday 27th December 2019

50 Tufted Duck, a Pochard, seven Mallard and two Blackcaps were seen at Westfields during the annual Limerick Branch Christmas outing. A Redshank was also seen at Clancy’s Strand along with 25 Oystercatchers at King’s Island (Maura Turner, TT et al.)

Thursday 26th December 2019

An Polish colour ringed adult Black-headed Gull, Yellow TLW5, was the Lax Weir, Corbally (TT). The bird was ringed as an adult on 15/5/2019 at Lubczyna in north western Poland, close to the German border, 1551km from Limerick. This is the second eastern European Black-headed Gull recorded in Limerick this winter.
50 Tufted Duck, two Pochard, eight Mallard and five Mute Swans were at Westfields (TT).

Tuesday 24th December 2019

Two Buzzards were seen between Ballingarry and Kilfinny (Andrew Holmes).

Monday 23rd December 2019

An adult Ring-billed Gull was at O’Callaghan’s Strand (TT).
Buzzards was seen near Boher (Clodagh Glasgow) and Kilmeedy (Andrew Holmes).

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