At the Bridges of Ross today there were four Great Shearwaters, 75 Sooty Shearwaters, two Balearic Shearwaters, 5,300 Manxies, seven Storm Petrels, nine Bonxies, two Pomarine Skuas, 11 Arctic Skuas, ten Sandwich Terns, 13 Arctic Terns, 27 Whimbrel, four Common Scoter, one Red-throated Diver, one Black-tailed Godwit, two Chough, one Peregrine and a Sunfish (Niall T Keogh, Neal Warnock et al).
The Buzzard was still at Exit 13 on the M18 this afternoon (Finbarr MacGabhann).
Thursday 24th August 2017
Wednesday 23rd August 2017
There was one Fea’s Petrel at the Bridges of Ross late this afternoon (Mick Fiszer, Simon Dennis, Steve Hack, Mick Stuart, Neal Warnock, Victor Cashera & Geoff Pearson).
Also at the Bridges were 28 Cory’s Shearwaters, two Great Shearwaters, six Balearic Shearwaters, 173 Sooty Shearwaters, 9,000 Manx Shearwaters, nine Storm Petrels, 17 Bonxies, 15 Arctic Skuas, four Sabines Gulls, 43 Arctic Terns, 21 Sandwich Terns, two Puffins, 15 Common Scoter and 65 Whimbrel. (John N Murphy, Paidi Cullinan, MF, SD, SH, MS, NW, VC & GP)
One Spotted Redshank was at Moyasta Creek (JNM & Elaine Keegan).
Tuesday 22nd August 2017
Adult Rose-coloured Starling at Kilkee Eanna O’Flynn
One adult Rose-coloured Starling is on the grounds of the Kilkee Bay Hotel this evening.(Eanna O’Flynn)
So far there have been nine records for the county. The first record for Clare was of an adult bird shot at Roxton, Corofin in 1808. The next was another bird shot in the county during the summer of 1830.
In the 1900’s there were two records. One adult male was shot at Sixmilebridge in the first week of July 1937. The next bird also an adult was in a private garden at Tradaree Court, Shannon Town on 29th July 1989.
The majority of records came in during 2000’s. One adult was at Spanish Point from the 2nd to 19th of July 2000. One adult was at Marrion Avenue, Ennis from the 1st to 12th July 2001. One adult was seen on rooftops near the Half Way House Pub, Ennis from the 19th to 25th August 2007. One adult was at Spanish Point on 13th June 2012.
A Buzzard was at Exit 13 on the M18 this morning.(Páidí Cullinan & John N Murphy)
There were four Green Sandpipers at Lough Gash. (JNM)
Monday 21st August 2017
Juvenile Buzzard outside Ennis near Exit 13 John N Murphy
There were two Arctic Skuas, 28 Whimbrel, 20 Curlew and 15 Turnstone at the Bridges of Ross with one Willow Warbler in Kilbaha (John N Murphy, Neal Warnock et al).
One Buzzard was near Exit 13 on the M18 outside Ennis (Seamus Hassett)
A Ruff, two Med Gull, 25 Black-tailed Godwit, 12 Lapwing and 30 Curlew were at a flooded field near the Pitch and Putt course on the Lahinch to Liscannor Road.(Jeff Copner)
A Peregrine was at Lahinch Marsh.(Jeff Copner and Dave McNamara)
Three Whimbrel were at Clahane.(JC & DMcN)
Saturday 19th August 2017
There were four Wilson’s Petrels, one Great Shearwater, 36 Sooty Shearwater, 26 Storm Petrel, 20 Great Skua, 15 Arctic Skua, two Long-tailed Skua, a Sabine’s Gull, a Puffin and four Common Scoter at the Bridges of Ross.(John N. Murphy, Neal Warnock, Andrew McMillan, Mick Boyle and Christian Osthoff)
Friday 18th August 2017
One of the eight Wilson’s Petels off Ross Niall T Keogh
A BAROLO SHEARWATER was west of the Bridges of Ross at 10.25.(Niall T. Keogh et al)
Eight Wilson’s Storm Petrel, seven Common Scoter, six Leach’s Storm Petrel, 85 Storm Petrel, 14 Great Shearwater, 20 Cory’s Shearwater, over 200 Sooty Shearwater, around 16000 Manx Shearwater, two Balearic Shearwater, 16 Great Skua, five Pomaraine Skua, four Arctic Skua, eight Long-tailed Skua, 10 Sabine’s Gull, 37 Arctic Tern, 23 Sandwich Tern, five Grey Phalarope, a Puffin, 14 Whimbrel, 16 Black-tailed Godwit and four Teal were at the Bridges of Ross.(Niall T. Keogh, Brian Porter, Des Higgins, Cathay Forkan, Paul Troake, Dermot Breen, Geoff Pearson, Victor Caschera, Mark Stewart, Conor Foley, Donal Foley, Jim Sheehan, Andrew McMillan, Mick Boyle and Neal Warnock.)
A flock of between three to four hundred Sand Martin were at Ballyallia Lake this evening.(Páidí Cullinan)
Thursday 17th August 2017
One Great Shearwater, 17 Sooty Shearwaters, 2,000 Manxies, one adult Pomarine Skua, one Storm Petrel and two Commom Scoter were at the Bridges of Ross (Dave McNamara)
One Buzzard was at Exit 13 along the M18 on the Tulla Road junction (Howard Williams)
There were three Storm Petrels at Carrigaholt (DMcN)
The albino Curlew is back in the Ballyvaughan area.(Páidí Cullinan)
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