Category Archives: Scarce & Rare Bird Sightings

At Ross Ringing Station between 09.45-11.45 a seawatch produced one Wilson’s Petrel(10.39), one Great Shearwater, 11 Cory’s Shearwater, one Sooty Shearwater, over 7000 Manx Shearwater, one Great Skua, one Storm Petrel, two Arctic Skua, two Sandwich Tern and five Whimbrel. (John N Murphy)

At Black Head between 07.15-11.30 there were 65 Cory’s Shearwater, six Arctic Skua, one Pomarine Skua, one Great Skua and four Storm Petrel.(Paul Troake)

At the Bridges of Ross between 14.50-17.50 a Long-tailed Skua, four Cory’s Shearwater, one Arctic Skua, one Sooty Shearwater, 19 Whimbrel, 102 Fulmar, 37 Gannet, 35 Kittiwake, two Guillemot, 19 Oystercatcher 4580 Manx Shearwater and one Cormorant were observed.(Chris Cullen)

At Rinevilla/Kilcredaun a Whimbrel, one Common Sandpiper, three Little Egret and 80 Sandwich Tern were seen.(CC)

A Wilson’s Petrel flew past Ross Ringing Station at 10.35.(John N. Murphy)

At Ross Ringing Station between 07.20-08.20 there were 15 Cory’s Shearwater.(JNM)

An all white albino Hen Harrier was in the field at Ross Ringing Station.(JNM)

Off Ross Ringing Station between 14.15-15.15 there were two Great Shearwater, three Sooty Shearwater, two Arctic Tern, five Sandwich Tern and 11 Storm Petrel.(JNM)

Between 06.00-08.00 there were 18 Cory’s Shearwater, one Sooty Shearwater and 12 Common Scoter.(Tony Cully, Dara Cully.)

A Scopoli’s Shearwater was off Loop Head at 15.25. ( Vittorio Cashera, Dan Mantle, Jim Dowdall, Niall Keogh et al)

Between 11.45-19.30 1120 Cory’s Shearwater, 25 Great Shearwater, 35 Sooty Shearwater, 42 Storm Petrel, 10 Arctic Tern and 20 Puffin were recorded.(TC, DC, VC, DM, JD, NK et al)

The pacific Diver was off Carnsefin this morning 1.5 km NW of Coolshiva along with 18 Great Northern Diver, 45 Cory’s Shearwater and one Storm Petrel.(Paul Troake)

The Pacific Diver was seen in the same area at 4p.m. along with 12 Cory’s Shearwater.(Jeff Copner)

The Pacific Diver was still off Coolshiva Pier.(Charlie Lyons)

A seawatch between 10.00-13.20 produced a steady passage of Manx Shearwater, seven Cory’s Shearwater, one Storm Petrel, 12 Puffin and 21 Curlew.(Steffan Schaffer)

An afternoon seawatch between 14.00-15.00 showed a steady passage of Manx Shearwater, four Cory’s Shearwater, six Puffin and 37 Curlew.(SS)

Eighteen Cory’s Shearwater were reported later in the evening.(Sean Holland)

A seawatch at the Bridges of Ross between 05.40-13.40 produced  two Wilson’s Storm Petrel(06.52, 10.30), one 2cy Long-tailed Skua, 2756 Cory’s Shearwater,  142 Great Shearwater, 55 Sooty Shearwater,  three Arctic Skua,  56 Storm Petrel and 105 Puffin.(Brian McCloskey, Sean Holland, Jeff Copner et al)

At Black Head between 10.40-13.00 there were over 150 Cory’s Shearwater,  two Great Shearwater,  13 Puffin, one Great Skua, three Arctic Skua and one Storm Petrel. (Paul Troake)