Clare Bird Sightings

Wednesday 21st April 2021

Seventy seven Whimbrel were at Lough Donnell.(Nuala and Tom Lynch)


Tuesday 20th April 2021

A Grasshopper Warbler was at Sliabh Elva.(Páidí Cullinan)


Tuesday 20th April 2021

Three Crossbills were at Slievereagh Mountain (Irishbirding-Tara Boelens).


Monday 19th April 2021

Two Great Spotted Woodpeckers were at Grange (William Hipgrave)


Monday 19th April 2021

A Common Sandpiper was at Clarecastle Quay this evening. (John N Murphy)


Sunday 18th April 2021

A Cuckoo was at Toorlougher, Slieve Felim (Mike Quirke).
A Cuckoo was also heard on the Limerck-Tipperary border at Annaholty Bog. Two Curlew and two Whimbrel were at the adjacent Gooig Bog (TT).


Sunday 18th April 2021

At Finvarra Point there were two Long-tailed Duck, 110 Great Northern Divers, one Red-throated Diver, three Sandwich Terns, 30 Whimbrel and a flock of 60 Turnstones. (John N Murphy)


Friday 16th April 2021

A 2cy male Marsh Harrier, a Buzzard, three Sedge Warblers and a Jack Snipe were at Coonagh (TT).
A 2cy Iceland Gull was at Arthur’s Quay (TT).


Thursday 15th April 2021

A female Hen Harrier and a Buzzard were seen near Glenstal Woods (TT).


Thursday 15th April 2021

A Grasshopper Warbler was reeling at Cloonkett near Cranny.(John N. Murphy)