Category Archives: Scarce & Rare Bird Sightings

At the Bridges of Ross there was one Balearic Shearwater, 12 Sooty Shearwaters, five Bonxies, 50 Storm Petrels and three Little Gulls. (Irishbirding.com)

At the Bridges of Ross this morning things were quiet with one Sooty Shearwaters, less than 1,000 Manxies, two Bonxies, 67 Sandwich Terns, 12 Whimbrel, one Black Guillemot, one Minxie Whale and a Blue-finned Tuna. (John N Murphy et al)

One Common Sandpiper was at Clarecastle Quay with another at Doonbeg Lough. (John N Murphy)

At the Bridges of Ross today there was one Great Shearwater, one Balearic Shearwater, 60 Sooty Shearwaters, 8-10,000 Manx Shearwaters, nine Bonxies, six Common Scoter, seven Arctic Terns, eight Sandwich Terns, 32 Whimbrel, a Peregrine and one Sunfish. (John N Murphy, Geoff Pearson, David Bywater & Paul Kedney)