Snowy Owl in North Clare John N Murphy
The SNOWY OWL was at Cappanawalla Hill Ballyvaughan this morning along with 60 Golden Plover.( Jeff Copner, John N Murphy & Dave McNamara)
Two Sedge Warblers and a Water Rail were at the Quin Road Business Park, Ennis. (Finbarr MacGabhann)
There were 22 Black-throated Divers, 30 Great Northern Divers and 20 Common Scoter off Gleninagh. (Dave McNamara)
A flock of 150 Sanderling were at Liscannor. (Dave McNamara)
There were 28 Black-throated Divers off Gleninagh with 28 Black Guillemots off Black Head. (Dave McNamara)
One adult and one second winter Iceland Gulls were at Liscannor along with two White Wagtails and 24 Brent Geese. (Dave McNamara)
There were 60 Golden Plover, seven Wheatears and four Ravens on Gleninagh Hill. (Dave McNamara)
A Raven was at Drehednagower Bridge Ennis.(Nuala and Tom Lynch)
A Whitethroat, two Blackcap and 27 Willow Warbler were singing in the South Commons, Poundtown and Gortlecka Cross area of the Burren. Four pair of Stonechat were in the same area. Eleven Common Gull were at Loch Gealán.(Nuala and Tom Lynch)
One first-winter Iceland Gull and four Sandwich Terns were at Clahane, Liscannor. (Dave McNamara)
Five Crossbills, and three Blackcaps were at Gortcoirce, Dysart. (Dave McNamara)
One Crossbill was at Lickeen Lake. (Dave McNamara)
Two Blackcap were singing at Ballyallia this evening.(Nuala and Tom Lynch)
Two Yellowhammers were at Kilkeedy, the Burren. (John N Murphy & Caoimhin O’Neill)
Five Blackcap were singing in Lees Road Wood. Two Jay were also seen there.(Nuala and Tom Lynch)
Leave a commentA HOOPOE was at Pilot Hill, Loop Head this morning. (Gerard Tevlan)
The first Cuckoo of the year was heard calling all day today at Tulla.
The SNOWY OWL was seen again by another group of walkers in the Gleninagh Mountain area.
At the Branch outing today to Fanore there was one adult Little Gull off the beach along with 16 Black Guillemots and up to 500 Manx Shearwaters out at sea. Up the Caher Valley there were four Grey Wagtails, one Blackcap, one Swallow,two Willow Warblers, three Wheatears, two Raven and a pair of Dippers. (John N Murphy, Susan O’Donoghue, Geoff Pearson et al)
At Gleninagh, Black Head there were two Black-throated Divers, 40 Great Northern Divers, 14 Common Scoter, 18 Sandwich Terns and hundreds of Manx Shearwaters streaming out of Galway Bay.(John N Murphy)
Six Yellowhammers were near Kilkeedy, the Burren. (John N Murphy)
Blackcaps were very vocal today with two near Mullaghmore, one near Carron, one near Ruan and one at Clarecastle Quay. (John N Murphy)
One Buzzard was seen soaring over Shannon Town. (Dermot Harney)
There were six Yellowhammers near Kilkeedy, the Burren this evening. (John N Murphy & Austin Cooney)
Seven Jay were at Lees Road Wood(Nuala and Tom Lynch)
A Sedge Warbler was just south of Lough Donnell, an early arrival back from west Africa. Twenty Skylark were singing in the same general area.(Nuala and Tom Lynch)
House Martins were seen along the Clonroad in Ennis. (Brendan Cooney)
There were ten Great Northern and five Red-throated Divers, off Lurga Point. ( Nuala and Tom Lynch)
Two Swallow were at Connolly. (Nuala and Tom Lynch)
A MARSH HARRIER was seen near Lough Muchanagh, the Burren (Emma Glanville), along with one Yellowhammer near Kilkeedy.
Leave a commentTwo WHITE-TAILED EAGLES were at Mount Shannon along with one Blackcap late this evening. (John N Murphy & Austin Cooney)
Seven Jay were at Lees Road Wood this morning.(Nuala and Tom Lynch)
Twelve Yellowhammer were west of Boston.(Gerry Slattery)
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