An Osprey spent the day fishing at Bleach Lough. (Frank McGeehan)
One adult Yellow-legged Gull was at Loghill. (Davey Farrar)
Monday 14th September 2020
Buff-breasted Sandpiper Tom Tarpey
Two Buff-breasted Sandpipers and 37 Golden Plovers were at Loop Head. (Tom Tarpey)
Two Buzzards were at Kilbaha. (TT)
A Whimbrel was Cloghaun Lough. (TT)
Two Merlins were seen at Ross Bay and the plover fields, Loop Head. (Jeff Copner)
A Blackcap and 20 Teal were at Ballyallia. (Cliff Baxter)
Sunday 13th September 2020
One Buff-breasted Sandpiper and three Lapland Buntings were at Loop Head. (Marcin Pursila)
Six Buzzard were at Ballycar.(John N Murphy)
One Curlew Sandpiper and 82 Knot were at Shannon Airport Lagoon.(JNM)
Four Curlew Sandpiper were at Seafield, Quilty.(Jeff Copner)
A Peregrine was at Moy Beach.(JC)
A 2CY Iceland Gull and one Whimbrel were at Farrihy.(Chris Cullen)
Three Sandwich Tern and a Kingfisher were at Doughmore Bay.(CC)
Thursday 10th September 2020
A Green Sandpiper was at Robertstown (TT).
A Ruff, 20 Knot and eleven Grey Plover were at Poularone (TT).
A Common Sandpiper was at Poulaweela Creek (TT).
A Whimbrel and a Portuguese colour-ringed Lesser Black-backed Gull, Blue M:023, were at Loghill (TT).
The Portuguese Gull was ringed at a rehabilitation centre in Quiaios on 17/9/2014, spent the summer of 2015 in Portugal and was seen in Sligo in August 2018.
Thursday 10th September 2020
Four Curlew Sandpiper were at Seafield, Quilty.(Finbar MacGabhann)
Two Curlew Sandpiper and a Kingfisher were at the mouth of the Skivileen River, Doonbeg.(FMcG)
A Common Sandpiper and a Kingfisher were at Doughmore Bay.(FMcG)
Two Green Sandpiper and a Kingfisher were at Moyasta.(FMcG)
Three Curlew Sandpiper were among hundreds of Dunlin at Poulnasherry Bay.(John N. Murphy)
Monday 7th September 2020
The Pied Flycatcher was still at Seni Costello’s garden in Kilbaha.(Páidí Cullinan and John N. Murphy)
A Lapland Bunting was at the West Bank, Loop Head(PC & JNM)
A 2CY Iceland Gull was just west of Kilkee.(PC & JNM)
A half hour seawatch at the Bridges of Ross produced a Leach’s Petrel, two Great Skua, 12 Sooty Shearwater and 18 Brent Geese.(PC & JNM)
Sunday 6th September 2020
Ruff Tom Tarpey
Two Leach’s Petrels, one Storm Petrel, two Great Skuas, two Arctic Skuas and a Common Scoter were at the Bridges of Ross. (Geoff Hunt, Mike Flanagan and Michael Sheehy)
The Pied Flycatcher was still at Kilbaha. (GH)
Three Curlew Sandpipers were at Seafield. (Jeff Copner & Tom Tarpey)
A Ruff was at Lahinch golf course. (TT)
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