Category Archives: Scarce & Rare Bird Sightings

A Marsh Harrier was at Ballyallia this afternoon.(Páidí Cullinan and Tom Lynch)
Twenty Whooper Swan were at Drumcliffe.(PC & TL)
A Glaucous Gull was at Black Head(Paul Troake)

Two Waxwing were at the entrance to Dromore Nature Reserve.(Cliff Baxter)
At the Branch outing to Clonderlaw Bay, a Black-throated Diver, four Red-throated Diver, five Great Northern Diver, a Jack Snipe, 120 Shelduck, 77 Golden Plover, 50 Cormorant including one bird from SE England or the continent, 30 Common Guillemot, 11 Black Guillemot, over 200 Redshank, 23 Greenshank, 70 Curlew, 550 Dunlin, ten Great-crested Grebe, six Little Egret, 60 Wigeon, 100 Teal, 25 Ringed Plover, 15 Tufted Duck and 12 Mallard were seen.(Nuala and Tom Lynch, Austin Cooney, Brian Finnegan et al)

Nine Yellowhammer were at garden bird feeders in Rinnamona in the Burren.(Tom Lynch)
Six Whooper Swan and a Little Egret were at Drumcliffe.(Páidí Cullinan)