A Fea’s type Petrel was seen for about five minutes at 11.15 at the Bridges of Ross this morning (Eanna O Flynn & John N Murphy). Also at the Bridges were 14 Storm Petrels, one Balearic Shearwater, 16 Sooty Shearwaters, one Arctic Skua, one Pomarine Skua, , 14 Bonxies, one Great Northern Diver, one adult winter Little Gull, one Peregrine, three Choughs and one Greenshank. Two Swift were at Ballyallia Lake.
Leave a commentFriday 15th August 2014
Twelve Golden Plover were close to Loop Head Lighthouse. Sixteen Chough were at the Fodry Loop Head and six more were along the coast road south of Kilkee.
1 CommentTuesday 12th August 2014
Bonxie at the Bridges of Ross John N Murphy
A Wilson’s Storm Petrel (Eanna O Flynn), 4 Sooty Shearwater, 2 Cory’s Shearwater, 2 Great Shearwater, one Storm Petrel, two Pomarine Skuas, 10 Arctic Skua, 5 Great Skua, 7 Common Scoter, five Arctic Terns and an adult Sabine’s Gull were at the Bridges of Ross. Two Raven were at Ballyallia Wood.
Leave a commentMonday 11th August 2014
Arctic Skua off the Bridges of Ross this afternoon John N Murphy
Three adult Sabine’s Gulls, 52 Sooty Shearwaters, 2 Balearic Shearwaters, 9 Great Shearwaters, 11 Cory’s Shearwaters , 11 Storm Petrels, 8 Puffin, 7 Great Skuas, 7 Arctic Skuas, one Pomarine Skua, 123 Arctic Terns and one Grey Phalarope were seen from the Bridges of Ross.
Leave a commentSaturday 9th August 2014
At the Bridges of Ross today there was on Great Shearwater, two Sooty Shearwaters, 500 Manxies (ph), five Storm Petrels, five Common Scoter, 30 Black-tailed Godwits, one Sanderling and one Ringed Plover. One Common Sandpiper and one Whimbrel were in Ross Bay. At Poulnasherry Bay there were 80 Curlew, 42 Shelduck and seven Little Egrets.
Leave a commentFriday 8th August 2014
A group of visiting Dutch birders had one Wilson’s Petrel, and numbers of Greats, Cory’s and Sooty Shearwaters off the Bridges of Ross and Loop Head today (no precise details). A juvenile Reed Warbler was ringed at Shannon Airport Lagoon.
Leave a commentThursday 7th August 2014
Two Raven, a Little Egret and a flock of around 150 Linnet were at Islandavanna. Four Water Rail were at Lough Luirk Turlough.
Leave a commentTuesday 5th August 2014
Ninety four Coot were at the Northern end of Ballyallia Lake this evening. This number included 20 juveniles. Over 200 Swallow, House Martin and Sand Martin were feeding on insect over the lake. A Raven was nearby. Earlier 13 Swift were seen over Ennis town with two more at Ballyallia.
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