At the Bridges of Ross today there was one Great Shearwater, one Balearic Shearwater, 60 Sooty Shearwaters, 8-10,000 Manx Shearwaters, nine Bonxies, six Common Scoter, seven Arctic Terns, eight Sandwich Terns, 32 Whimbrel, a Peregrine and one Sunfish. (John N Murphy, Geoff Pearson, David Bywater & Paul Kedney)
Tuesday 10th August 2021
Great Spotted Woodpecker Shane O Neill
One Great Spotted Woodpecker was at Doonass. (Shane O Neill)
One adult-winter Mediterranean Gull was at Killimer this afternoon. (John N Murphy)
There were 42 Reed Warbler and over 600 Sedge Warbler caught and ringed to date over the summer season at Shannon Airport Lagoon.(Phil Brennan)
Two Crossbills were at Knockalough. (JNM)
Saturday 7th August 2021
One Great Shearwater, two Balearic Shearwater, 42 Sooty Shearwater, over 62,000 Manx Shearwater, 45 European Storm Petrel, two Long-tailed Skua, four Great Skua, three Arctic Skua, nine Arctic Tern, one Puffin and two Common Scoter were at the Bridges of Ross today between 06.00-20.00.(Aidan G. Kelly, Niall T. Keogh, Brian Porter and Geoff Pearson)
Friday 6th August 2021
Off the Bridges of Ross today (8.05-18.05), there were two Wilson’s Petrels, one juvenile Long-tailed Skua, one adult Sabines Gull, three Cory’s Shearwaters, 37 Great Shearwaters, 170 Sooty Shearwaters, 31,500 Manxies, four Bonxies, 30 European Storm Petrels, 14 Arctic Terns, 11 Puffin and one juvenile Mediterranean Gull. (Aidan Kelly, Niall T Keogh, Geoff Pearson & Brian Porter)
This morning off Kilkee (8.00-9.00), there was one Cory’s Shearwater, ten Sooty Shearwaters and 2,500 Manxies. (John N Murphy)
One adult Little Tern was at Doughmore Bay with 39 Sandwich Terns. (JNM)
One Common Sandpiper was at Kilmurray Pier. (JNM)
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