Clare Bird Sightings

Monday 19th February 2018

Monday 19th February 2018

A male Bramblings from Ballyallia this morning John N Murphy

There were 10 to 12 Brambling at Costelloe’s Farm, Ballyallia this morning.(John N Murphy)
One Brambling was at Boghill, Lisdoonvarna. (Dave McNamara)
There were two Glaucous Gulls, ten Brent Geese, one Peregrine and five Little Egrets between Liscannor and the marsh. (DMcN)


Sunday 18th February 2018

A 1st winter Kumlien’s Gull and two 1st winter Iceland Gulls were seen at O’Callaghan’s Strand during the Branch outing this morning (TT et al)


Sunday 18th February 2018

There was one Spotted Redshank at Corronroo. (Cathal Forkan & Paidi Cullinan)
Two Sandwich Terns and four Common Scoter were at Aughinish. (PC & CF)
One Black-throated Diver, five Red-throated Divers and ten Common Scoter were off Coolsiva Pier. (CF & PC)


Saturday 17th February 2018

Saturday 17th February 2018

A 2CY Iceland Gull in Kilbaha harbour John N Murphy

One 2CY Glaucous Gull and nine Iceland Gulls (four 2CY , three 3 CY, one sub adult and one adult) were at Loop Head. (John N Murphy & Eanna O Flynn)
Five Glaucous Gulls and one Iceland Gull were feeding on the dead whale carcass at Liscannor. (Dave McNamara & Jeff Copner)
Also at Liscannor and Ennistymon were 27 Red-throated Divers, 48 Common Scoter, 11 Little Egrets and four Woodcock. (Dave McNamara & Jeff Copner)
Two Barnacle Geese were at Moveen. (JNM)
One Barn Owl was at Applewood, Ballycar. (JNM)


Friday 16th February 2018

There were 20 Brambling at Ballyallia. (Paidi Cullinan)


Wednesday 14th February 2018

One Peregrine and a Jack Snipe were at the Shannon Airport Lagoon. (John N Murphy)


Saturday 17th February 2018

A 1st winter Kumlien’s Gull, a 1st winter Iceland Gull, a first winter Yellow-legged Gull, a 2nd winter Ring-billed Gull and a Redshank were at O’Callaghan’s Strand. Two colour-ringed Gulls, a British Black-headed Gull, Yellow 2EB2 and a Norwegian Common Gull, Green JT78 were also present(TT).
The Common Gull was ringed as chick in near Karmoy in southwestern Norway on 4/7/2016 and was last reported in Fredrickstad in southeastern Norway on 25/9/2016.
The Black-headed Gull was ringed as a chick at Forvie on the Ythan Estuary, north of Aberdeen, Scotland on 19/6/2016. It is the first Scottish ringed Black-headed Gull found in Limerick.
Buzzards were at Ballysimon and Rosbrien (TT).
Two Shelduck, 16 Gadwall, eight Shoveler, 20 Teal, 38 Tufted Duck , 20 Pochard, 75 Coot, four Greylag Geese, ten Mute Swans and seven Snipe were at Coonagh (TT).


Tuesday 13th February 2018

An Iceland Gull was at the Post Office Field in Ennis.(Cliff Baxter)
Three Brambling were at Ballyallia with two more at Templemaley near the Ballyhee Cutting.(Tom Lynch)
A Long-eared Owl was at Gregan’s Wood.(Páidí Cullinan)
One Buzzard was west of Dromore Lake near Ruan this evening. (John N Murphy)


Sunday 11th February 2018

Two Merlin were at Ballyallia Lake.(Myles Carey)


Monday 12th February 2018

A Buzzard was at the Rosbrien intersection (TT).