There were four Wilson’s Petrels, one Great Shearwater, 36 Sooty Shearwater, 26 Storm Petrel, 20 Great Skua, 15 Arctic Skua, two Long-tailed Skua, a Sabine’s Gull, a Puffin and four Common Scoter at the Bridges of Ross.(John N. Murphy, Neal Warnock, Andrew McMillan, Mick Boyle and Christian Osthoff)
Friday 18th August 2017
One of the eight Wilson’s Petels off Ross Niall T Keogh
A BAROLO SHEARWATER was west of the Bridges of Ross at 10.25.(Niall T. Keogh et al)
Eight Wilson’s Storm Petrel, seven Common Scoter, six Leach’s Storm Petrel, 85 Storm Petrel, 14 Great Shearwater, 20 Cory’s Shearwater, over 200 Sooty Shearwater, around 16000 Manx Shearwater, two Balearic Shearwater, 16 Great Skua, five Pomaraine Skua, four Arctic Skua, eight Long-tailed Skua, 10 Sabine’s Gull, 37 Arctic Tern, 23 Sandwich Tern, five Grey Phalarope, a Puffin, 14 Whimbrel, 16 Black-tailed Godwit and four Teal were at the Bridges of Ross.(Niall T. Keogh, Brian Porter, Des Higgins, Cathay Forkan, Paul Troake, Dermot Breen, Geoff Pearson, Victor Caschera, Mark Stewart, Conor Foley, Donal Foley, Jim Sheehan, Andrew McMillan, Mick Boyle and Neal Warnock.)
A flock of between three to four hundred Sand Martin were at Ballyallia Lake this evening.(Páidí Cullinan)
Thursday 17th August 2017
One Great Shearwater, 17 Sooty Shearwaters, 2,000 Manxies, one adult Pomarine Skua, one Storm Petrel and two Commom Scoter were at the Bridges of Ross (Dave McNamara)
One Buzzard was at Exit 13 along the M18 on the Tulla Road junction (Howard Williams)
There were three Storm Petrels at Carrigaholt (DMcN)
The albino Curlew is back in the Ballyvaughan area.(Páidí Cullinan)
Monday 14th August 2017
Fifteen Wheatear, 54 Dunlin, 56 Ringed Plover, two Sanderling, 50 Turnstone, 100 Sandwich Tern, 35 Common Tern, 25 Little Egret, 135 Shag, 15 Greenshank and a Common Sandpiper were at Rine Point.(Paul Troake)
A Med Gull moultiing into 2nd winter plumage and nine Bar-tailed Godwit were at Ballyvaughan.(PT)
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