At the Bridges of Ross this morning there were two Pomarine Skua, two Arctic and 50 Storm Petrel.(Jeff Copner)
A seawatch between 18.25-20.35 produced one Wilson’s Storm Petrel, 38 Cory’s Shearwater, three Great Shearwater, 95 Sooty Shearwater, 9675 Manx Shearwater, 35 Storm Petrel, three Arctic Skua, one immature Pomarine Skua, 13 Arctic Tern and 32 Whimbrel.(Alan Lauder)
One Scopolli’s Shearwater was picked up flying alongside a Cory’s close to the shore off Ross Ringing Station (09.30)(John N Murphy)
At Ross Ringing Station between 06.00-09.00 there were three Wilson’s Petrel, 50 Storm Petrel, over 200 Cory’s Shearwater, ten Sooty Shearwater, 6000 Manx Shearwater per hour, one Long-tailed Skua, seven Pomarine Skua, five Arctic Skua, three Common Scoter and 16 Arctic Tern.(John N. Murphy, Johannes Laber)
Between 9.30 and 12.00 at Ross Ringing station there were 12 Wilson’s, Storm Petrels, over 300 Cory’s Shearwaters, two Great Shearwaters, 15 Sooty Shearwaters, two Sabine’s Gulls, five Pomarine Skuas, three Arctic Skuaa and ten Arctic Terns. (John N Murphy & Johannes Laber)
At the Bridges of Ross between 06.50-19.50 there were 5 Wilson’s Storm Petrel, (G Murray, N. Keogh, N.T. Keogh and John N. Murphy) 35 Storm Petrel, 1110 Cory’s Shearwater, 12 Great Shearwater, 60 Sooty Shearwater, 17 Pomarine Skua,(15 light/2 dark adults) 13 Arctic Skua, one Sabine’s Gull, (sub-adult type), one Grey Phalarope, 25 Puffin and 75 Arctic Tern. There were good numbers of Manx Shearwater-17500 in five hours this afternoon/evening.(GM. P.Phillips, JNM, NTK. NK, Jim Dowdall Geoff Pearson and S. Holland.)
Off Ross Ringing Station between 17.30-20.00 there was one Wilson’s Petrel, (18.30) 68 Cory’s Shearwater, seven Sooty Shearwater, seven Arctic Skua, two Pomarine Skua, two Storm Petrel, 45 Black-tailed Godwit and four Arctic Tern.(JNM)
An adult Peregrine was hunting at Cullenagh, Ennistymon this afternoon.(James Organ)
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 South Polar Skua was seen at the Bridges of Ross at 17.23 . If accepted this a first land based record for Ireland. A second Irish and first Clare record.(Gerard Murray, Brian McCloskey, Cian Cardiff, Victor Caschera, Jim Dowdall, Ger Walsh, Sean Doherty, Christen Bohmer.)
Barolo’s Shearwater was off the Bridges of Ross at 10.05.(Niall Keogh et al)
A second Barolo’s Shearwater was seen at 12.10. (Noel Keogh et al)
A third Barolo’s was seen at 14.50.(NK et al)
The seawatch at the Bridges of Ross between 05.45-19.30 also produced three Wilson’s Petrel, one Long-tailed Skua, three Pomarine Skua, three Arctic Skua, two Great Skua, 1110 Cory’s Shearwater , nine Great Shearwater, two Balearic Shearwater, 34 Sooty Shearwater, one Blue Fulmar, 23 Sandwich Tern, 12 Arctic Tern and 80 Puffin.(B McC, JFD, CC, GM, VC, GW, SP, NTK, NK, BP, ET, CTB, SD, JC, DM, EM, TC)
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 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)
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