Clare Bird Sightings

Sunday 16th July 2017

Five Common Sandpipers were at Clarecastle (Tom Tarpey).


Sunday 16th July 2017

A juvenile Long-eared Owl was calling at the Castletroy Golf Club in Monaleen tonight (TT).


Thursday 14th July 2017

Four hundred and forty Manx Shearwater were seen off Black Head between 7pm-8pm.(Páidí Cullinan)
A first summer Mediterranean Gull was at Ballyvaughan.(Paul Troake)
Two Storm Pertel were at Aughinish.(PT)


Wednesday 12th July 2017

Six Common Scoter were at the Bridges of Ross.(Páidí Cullinan)
Five Little Egret were at Kilcredaun Marsh.(PC)
Ten Little Egret and two Whimbrel were at Poulnasherry Bay.(PC)


Friday 7th July 2017

A Kingfisher, a Common Sandpiper, five Little Egret and a Grasshopper Warbler were at the Inagh River Estuary.(Jeff Copner)


Tuesday 4th July 2017

Around fifty Swift were hawking insects over Ennis this evening.(Mary and Dixie Collins, Nuala and Tom Lynch)


Monday 3rd July 2017

There was one Little Egret, two Common Sandpipers, 36 Curlew, three Whimbrel, one Black-tailed Godwit, two Sandwich Terns and three Water Rails at the Shannon Airport Lagoon (John N Murphy).
One Little Egret and a Common Sandpiper were at Clarecastle Quay (JNM).
One drake Wigeon was at Lough Gash, Newmarket-on-Fergus (JNM).


Sunday 2nd July 2017

One hundred Manx Shearwater and a Puffin were off Black Head this morning.(Páidí Cullinan)
A Great Skua was off Rine Point.(PC)
One Crossbill was at Slieve Elva. (PC)


Sunday 25th June 2017

A Long-eared Owl was at Rathclooney, Crusheen.(Jason Horner)


Saturday 24th June 2017

One Bonxie, one Arctic Skua and one Great Northern Diver were off Black Head (Paul Troake).
There was one first-summer Mediterranean Gull and 13 Little Egrets wee at Ballyvaughan (PT).