Clare Bird Sightings

Saturday 5th September 2020

Saturday 5th September 2020

Curlew Sandpiper Tom Tarpey

Two juvenile Curlew Sandpipers were at Seafield. (Tom Tarpey)
One Arctic Skua and a Sandwich Tern were at Quilty. (TT)


Friday 4th September 2020

An adult Pomarine Skua, six Arctic Skua, two Great Skua, two Leach’s Petrel, three Storm Petrel, 109 Sooty Shearwater, two Arctic Skua, 32 Sandwich Tern, two Brent Geese, a Great Northern Diver, a Red-throated Diver and three Common Scoter were at the Bridges of Ross.(Páidí Cullinan, Tom Doyle and Ciara’s O’Flanagan)
A Pied Flycatcher was at Costello’s Garden, Kilbaha.(Jeff Copner, Páidí Cullinan)


Thursday 3rd of September 2020

A Fea’s Petrel, several hundred Sooty Shearwater, three Pomarine Skua, a Long-tailed Skua, four Great Skua, a Great Shearwater, two Sabine Gulls, three Leach’s Petrel and 22 Whimbrel were at the Bridges of Ross.(Tom Doyle, Ciaran O’ Flanagan and Finbarr MacGabhann)


Wednesday 2nd September 2020

Seven juvenile Curlew Sandpiper were at Seafield.(Jeff Copner)
A Common Sandpiper was at Clarecastle Quay.(John N.Murphy)


Tuesday 1st September 2020

A Garden Warbler and a male Blackcap were at Kilbaha village.(John N. Murphy)
A Ruff was at Cloughaun Lough.(JNM)


Friday 4th September 2020

Five Buzzards were at Curraghchase (Fergus Flood).


Wednesday 2nd September 2020

Wednesday 2nd September 2020

Yellow-legged Gull Tom Tarpey

An adult Yellow-legged Gull was at Loghill (TT).
A Common Sandpiper was at Poulaweela Creek (TT).
A Kingfisher was at Robertstown (TT).


Tuesday 1st September 2020

Tuesday 1st September 2020

Arctic Skua (Geoff Hunt)

An Arctic Skua, nine Sandwich Terns, a Common Tern, six Mediterranean Gulls and two juvenile White-tailed Eagles were at Tarbert Bay (Geoff Hunt)


Monday 31st August 2020

Juvenile White-tailed Eagle Yellow/Green H was seen at Ballydonoghoe, Tarbert Bay (TT). Adult winter and first winter Mediterranean Gulls were also seen in the Bay.
A Kingfisher was at Askeaton Quay (TT).


Sunday 30th August 2020

An Arctic Skua(dark-phased) was at the Rine, Ballyvaughan.(Jeff Copner)
Three Buzzard were at Dromore Nature Reserve.(Nuala and Tom Lynch)