Category Archives: Scarce & Rare Bird Sightings

A Buzzard was soaring over the motorway at Schenker.(Nuala and Tom Lynch)

During an extremely foggy and cold Dawn Chorus outing to the Burren six male and a female Cuckoo were heard along with four Whitethroat, two Blackcap and a Wheatear.

Over 2000 Manx Shearwater were streaming west at Ross Ringing Station this morning.(John N Murphy)

A Shoveler and two Reed Warbler were at Shannon Airport Lagoon.(JNM)

A Great Spotted Woodpecker was at a garden in Connolly.(Finbar MacGabhann)

A Great Northern Diver in summer plumage was at Bishop’s Quarter.(Nick Larter)

There were four Red-throated Diver, two Great Northern Diver and 20 Black Guillemot at Black Head.(Sean and Peter Whelan and Charlie Lyons)

There were four Great Northern Diver and 40 Turnstone at the Flaggy Shore.(S &PW, CL)

Four Common Tern were at Inisbroo.(S & PW, CL)

Great Spotted Woodpeckers at Mountshannon John N Murphy

There were five Swift using the nest boxes at the back of Ennis Courthouse.(Maura Crowe)

A pair of Great Spotted Woodpecker were at Wood Park Forest, Mountshannon with another pair at Tulla.(John N Murphy)

A White-tailed Eagle was at Mountshannon.(JNM)

There were three Lapwing at Ballyeighter Lough.(Geoff Pearson)

Another White-tailed Eagle was at Lake Atedaun.(Declan O’Flanagan)

A pair of Gadwall, seven Reed Warbler and a hundred Black-tailed Godwit were at Shannon Airport Lagoon.(John N Murphy)

A male Great Spotted Woodpecker was in a garden at Parteen. (Rosie Rutherford).