Category Archives: Scarce & Rare Bird Sightings

One Borolo’s Shearwater was at the Fodry, Loop Head this evening (Owen Foley, Rob Vaughan & Shane Farrell).  Off the Bridges of Ross there was three Balearic Shearwater, 50 Sooty Shearwaters, 1,900 Manx Shearwater in 3 hrs (pm), three Leach’s Petrel, two Storm Petrel: 26 Great Skuas (Bonxie),five pale phase Pomarine Skua, 25 Arctic Skuas, one juvenile Long-tailed Skua (Owen Foley) two adult and one juvenile Sabine’s Gulls, one Sandwich Tern, one Grey Phalarope and 29 Whimbrel.

Seawatching at the Bridges of Ross today between 6.30am and 19.30 produced one adult Long-tailed Skua, 18 Great Shearwaters, three adult SabinesGulls, four Pomarine Skuas, thre Balearic Shearwaters, 22 Arctic Skuas, 15 Bonxies, 128 Sooty Shearwaters, two Puffins, 63 Arctic Terns, 23 Storm Petrels, three Sandwich Terns, two Red-throated Divers, 17 Common Scoter, two Whimbrel, four Dunlin, seven Ocean Sunfish, five Bottle-nosed Dolphins and 50 Common Dolphins.

A Fea’s Petrel was seen twice in the morning off the Bridges of Ross first at 10.25 a.m. (Victor Cashera Dermot Breen, Aidan Kelly, Keith Langdon, John N Murphy et al), and again in the evening at 17.50. Highlights for the day between 6.35 am and 19.35 were; six Cory’s Shearwaters, 614 Great Shearwaters, two Balearic Shearwaters, 84 Sooty Shearwaters, one Blue Fulmar, nine adult Sabines Gulls, five adult Pomarine Skuas, two Arctic Skuas, 13 Bonxies, 63 Storm Petrels, ten Arctic Terns, 153 Whimbrel, one Bar-tailed Godwit and five Ocean Sunfish.

There were two Arctic Skuas and two Greenshank off the Bridges of Ross this evening.