Clare Bird Sightings

One of the 14 Tree Sparrows at Doonbeg John N Murphy

The LESSER YELLOWLEGS was still at Moyasta Creek, Poulnasherry Bay today along with 11Little Egrets, 76 Curlew, 200 Wigeon, 320 Teal, 16 Pintail and nine Greenshank (John N Murphy).
There was one first-winter Ring-billed Gull within a flock of 80 Common Gulls at the GAA Pitch in Kilkee  (John N Murphy).
Four Chough, 90 Fulmar, eight Rock Doves and two Red-throated Divers flew past on the sea south of Kilkee (John N Murphy).
At Doonbeg Bay there were 140 Teal, 137 Golden Plover and four Great Northern Divers.  In the Lough at Doonbeg there were 70 Snipe, 375 Lapwing and one Kingfisher. East of the village a flock of 14 Tree Sparrows were feeding in a rough field, while opposite the Skivileen River there were 16 Purple Sandpipers, 300 Lapwing, 162 Curlew, 18 Wigeon, five Great Northern Divers, one Red-throated Diver, 8 Razorbills and five Gannet (John N Murphy).
One Merlin was at Islandavanna (Finbarr MacGabhainn).
There was a flock of 22 Greylag Geese and one Greenshank at Ballycar Lough this morning (John N Murphy).