Two Swifts were at Ballyallia this morning. This is the first report of Swift in the county this year.(Páidí Cullinan)
Sunday 29th April 2018
Two Peregrine were at the Caher Valley this morning.(Páidí Cullinan)
During the Branch outing 4 Dipper and a male Peregrine were seen along the Caher River.(Páidí Cullinan, Nuala and Tom Lynch, Austin Cooney, et al)
Three Jay and a Crossbill were at Sliabh Elva.(PC)
Fifty Whimbrel were at Doonbeg Golf Course.(Michael O Dwyer)
Eighty Whimbrel were at Kilbaha.(Jane Griffin)
Friday 27th April 2018
Three Common Sandpiper were at Lough Bunny this morning.(Páidí Cullinan)
Fifty four Great Northern Diver and 14 Common Scoter were off Coolshiva Pier.(Paul Troake)
A drake Surf Scoter was between the Coolshiva Pier and the Rine(PT)
Thirteen Black-throated Diver and a drake Long-tailed Duck were off the Rine.(PT)
A Red-throated Diver, nine Black-throated Diver, 42 Great Northern Diver and 15 Golden Plover were at Bishops Quarter.(PT)
Wednesday 25th April 2018
A hundred Manx Shearwater were off Black Head.(Páidí Cullinan)
A 2CY male Peregrine and a Dipper were at the Caher Valley(PC)
Sixteen Whimbrel, 28 Shelduck, 21 Brent Geese and 49 Sandwich Tern were at Rine Point.(PC)
A hundred Whimbrel were at Doonaha.(Cliff Baxter)
Twenty six Whimbrel were at Clahane.(Jeff Copner)
Saturday 21st April 2018
Chiffchaff at the West Bank, Loop Head John N Murphy
One adult Iceland Gull was at Kilbaha with one 2CY Glaucous Gull at Ross Bay. (John N Murphy)
Throughout the rest of Loop Head there was one female Blackcap, three Sedge Warblers, ten Collared Doves, 38 Golden Plover, eight Wheatear, 2,600 Manx Shearwater between Loop Head Lighthouse and the Bridges of Ross. (JNM)
There were 200 Manx Shearwaters feeding off the rocks at Rineville Bay with 12 Arctic Terns and 14 Common Terns feeding beside them and two Red-throated Divers and three Great Northern Divers in the bay. (JNM)
Fifteen Whimbrel were at Lough Donnell.(Nuala and Tom Lynch)
Friday 20th April 2018
A GREAT WHITE EGRET was at Lake Atedaun. (Jeff Copner)
One Buzzards at Bunratty. (PC)
Two Grasshopper Warblers,a Sedge Warbler and one Warer Rail were singing at Clonmoney South opposite Saints Island on the Shannon Estuary.(Páidí Cullinan)
There was one Greenland White-fronted Goose and eight Sedge Warblers at the Shannon Airport Lagoon along with 23 Gadwall, 20 Whimbrel, 178 Black-tailed Godwits, 57 Golden Plover, four Water Rails and three Little Egrets. (PC)
Three Whimbrel and six Blackcap were at Lough Giorroga this evening. (John N Murphy)
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