Category Archives: Scarce & Rare Bird Sightings

Saturday 27th October 2012

Saturday 27th October 2012

American Golden Plover on left with Golden Plover at the Horse Fields near Bridges of Ross © John N Murphy

The juvenile American Golden Plover was in the Horse Field at the Bridges of Ross ( John N Murphy & Tony Mee).
At Loop Head today there was one Brambling, two Snow Bunting, two male Blackcaps, four Chiffchaffs, one Tree Sparrow, one ring-tail Hen Harrier, one Merlin, one Peregrine, one Siskin, four Coal Tits, 70 Chaffinches, 200 Golden Plover, 50 Redwing, three Great Northern Divers and ten Snipe.
At the Bridges of Ross there was a large passage of Kittiwakes late this evening along with three Red-throated Divers and three Common Scoter.

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Friday 26th October 2012

Five Pink-footed Geese and a Great Northern Diver flew past Loop Head.
Also on Loop Head were one Snow Bunting an Peregrine and one Willow Warbler.
There were 26 Whooper Swans at the Shannon Airport Lagoon.

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Thursday 25th October 2012

One Merlin was at the Bridges of Ross.
Five Whooper Swans flew over Kilkee reservoir.

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Wednesday 24th October 2012

There was a small fall of thrushes today at Loop Head Lighthouse. Three dead Redwings and a Skylark were found at the base of the light tower while on the front lawn and in the small beck gardens there were two Blackcap. one Snow Bunting, 15 Redwings, seven Blackbirds and five Song Thrushes.

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Monday 22nd October 2012

One Spotted Sandpiper was at Moyasta Creek this morning (Tom Tarpey).
The juvenile Ameriacan Golden Plover was at the Horse Field at the Bridges of Ross this afternoon (Tom Tarpey).

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Sunday 21st October 2012

Sunday 21st October 2012

Brambling at Kilkee © Bill Ryan.

One Spotted Sandpiper was still at Moyasta (Mike Sheehy & Geoff Hunt), along with one Common Sandpiper.
One Brambling was at Coosheen, Kilkee.
One Snow Buntings, two Wheatears and two Merlins were at Loop Head.
Two Snow Buntings were at Bartra Headland, Lahinch.

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Saturday 20th October 2012


Merlin at Clahane © Dave McNamara

At Loop Head today there was one Snow Bunting, two Jack Snipe, two male Bullfinches, one Chiffchaff, two Merlins, one Peregrine, 160 Golden Plovers, one Red-breasted Merganser and eight Chough.
One Greater Scaup was at Kilcredaun Marsh along with one Water Rail.
One Merlin and a White Wagtail were at Clahane.

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Wednesday 17th October 2012

Wednesday 17th October 2012

Spotted Sandpiper at Moyasta © John N Murphy

Two Spotted Sandpipers were at Moyasta this morning (Tom Tarpey, Jeff Copner & Howard Williams).
The American Golden Plover was at the Fodry, Loop Head along with one Greylag Goose (Tom Tarpey).
Also at Loop Head and Kilbaha were the Pied Flycatcher and two Chiffchaffs.
One adult-winter Mediterannean Gull was at Balyallia Lake.
One Kingfisher was at Ballycorrick Bridge.
A flock of 600 Golden Plover were on the mudflats at the Shannon Airport Lagoon.
A flock of 68 Tufted Duck, ten Gadwall and 62 Little Grebes were at Lough Gash, Newmarket-on-Fergus.

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Tuesday 16th October 2012

Tuesday 16th October 2012

Pied Flycatcher at Kilbaha © John N Murphy

The two juvenile Spotted Sandpipers were still at Moyasta Creek today (John N Murphy & Brian Finnegan). Also at Moyasta were 12 Little Egrets, 12 Pintail, 400 Teal, 80 Wigeon, three Red-breasted Mergansers, 90 Dunlin, 70 Ringed Plover and nine Greenshank.
The juvenile America Golden Plover was at the Fodry, Loop Head (Dave McNamara).
A immature/female first-winter Surf Scoter was off Coolsiva Pier, Ballyvaughan Bay (Paul Troake et al).
One first-winter Pied Flycatcher was in Kilbaha along with four Chiffchaffs, one tree Sparrow, one Fieldfare, one female Hen Harrier and a Short-eared Owl near the lighthouse.
One Curlew Sandpiper was at Seafield, Quilty along with one female Wheatear.
One male Hen Harrier was near Lickeen Lake.
One Jay and one Dipper at Kilcornan, Ennistymon.

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Monday 15th October 2012

Monday 15th October 2012

One of the juvenile Spotted Sandpipers at Moyasta © Barry Howell

The two juvenile Spotted Sandpipers were at Moyasta again today (Conor & Donal Foley).
At the Bridges of Ross this morning there were 11 Sooty Shearwaters, ten Manx Shearwaters, one Pomarine Skua, one Arctic Skua, one Bonxie, one Arctic Tern and two Common Scoters.
Two Chiffchaffs and a Merlin were on Loop Head.
The five Canada Geese were on the Post Office Field in Ennis.

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