A Fea’s Petrel was seen at 13.20 off the Fodry, Loop Head heading south west (Keith Langdon), and 15 minutes later off the tip of Loop Head 13.35 (Kris De Rouc). Two Jay were at Lees Road Wood.
Leave a commentMonday 19th August 2013
Seawatching at the Bridges of Ross today between 6.30am and 19.30 produced one adult Long-tailed Skua, 18 Great Shearwaters, three adult SabinesGulls, four Pomarine Skuas, thre Balearic Shearwaters, 22 Arctic Skuas, 15 Bonxies, 128 Sooty Shearwaters, two Puffins, 63 Arctic Terns, 23 Storm Petrels, three Sandwich Terns, two Red-throated Divers, 17 Common Scoter, two Whimbrel, four Dunlin, seven Ocean Sunfish, five Bottle-nosed Dolphins and 50 Common Dolphins.
Leave a commentSunday 18th August 2013
At the Bridges of Ross today there were; 19 Cory’s Shearwaters, 56 Great Shearwaters, 93 Sooty Shearwaters, 11 Sabines Gulls, four Balearic Shearwaters, one adult Pomarine Skua, 28 Arctic Skuas, nine Bonxies, two Grey Phalaropes, one Blue Fulmar, one Puffin, 20 Arctic Terns, seven Storm Petrels, 38 Whimbrel, 51 Dunlin, five Sanderling, one female Common Scoter, one Basking Shark and ten Sunfish.
Highlights from a three hour seawatch this morning at Black Head were a Little Gull moulting in to 2nd-winter plumage along the shore, three dark Arctic Skuas, 78 Sandwich Terns heading west and a distant Storm Petrel. At the Rine, Ballyvaughan, there were c.220 Sandwich Terns and c.20 Common/Arctic Terns.
Leave a commentSaturday 17th August 2013
A Fea’s Petrel was seen twice in the morning off the Bridges of Ross first at 10.25 a.m. (Victor Cashera Dermot Breen, Aidan Kelly, Keith Langdon, John N Murphy et al), and again in the evening at 17.50. Highlights for the day between 6.35 am and 19.35 were; six Cory’s Shearwaters, 614 Great Shearwaters, two Balearic Shearwaters, 84 Sooty Shearwaters, one Blue Fulmar, nine adult Sabines Gulls, five adult Pomarine Skuas, two Arctic Skuas, 13 Bonxies, 63 Storm Petrels, ten Arctic Terns, 153 Whimbrel, one Bar-tailed Godwit and five Ocean Sunfish.
Leave a commentFriday16th August 2013
Highlights from the Bridges of Ross today were one Fea’s Petrel (Keith Langdon), one Cory’s Shearwater, 94 Great Shearwaters, 100 Sooty Shearwaters, three Balearic Shearwaters, one Pomarine Skua and five Great Skuas.
Leave a commentWednesday 14th August 2013
There were two Arctic Skuas and two Greenshank off the Bridges of Ross this evening.
Leave a commentWednesday 14th August 2013
A drake Garganey and a pair of Teal were seen at Coonagh this afternoon. A Dunlin, 341 Black-tailed Godwits and 14 Little Egrets were also seen on site during the mid-day high tide.
Leave a commentMonday 12th August 2013
A second winter Black-headed Gull with colour ring White E5XL was seen today at Clancy’s Strand, Limerick. The bird was ringed at a lake on the outskirts of Zoetermeer, 15km east of The Hague, Holland, on May 28th 2012. This is the first report of a colour ringed gull from Holland in Limerick. Previous colour ringed gulls from schemes in Ireland (Mayo), Norway, Great Britain and Germany as well as a metal ringed bird from Sweden have been seen in Limerick in recent years.
Leave a commentMonday 12th August 2013
There were two Bonxies and two Arctic Skuas off the Bridges of Ross this evening. Seven Little Egrets were at Moyasta.
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