At the Bridges of Ross today there were two Great Shearwaters, two Balearic Shearwaters, 107 Sooty Shearwaters, 3,200 Manx Shearwaters, 1,400 Fulmars, one Blue Fulmar, 11 Leach’s Petrels, 17 Storm Petrels, 15 Bonxies, one Pomarine Skua, 18 Arctic Skuas, 11 Sabine’s Gulls (8 adults, 1 2nd calender year & 2 juveniles), one juvenile Little Gull, 20 Arctic Terns, 11 Sandwich Terns, five Puffins, one Common Scoter, four Wigeon, three Teal two Light-bellied Brent Geese and one Red-throated Diver.
Leave a commentTuesday 28th August 2012
At the Bridges of Ross there was one Great Shearwater, 48 Sooty Shearwaters, 25 Storm Petrels, four Common Scoters, eight Bonxies, one Pomarine Skuas, ten Arctic Skuas, one Sabine’s Gull, eight Arctic Terns and three Puffins.
Leave a commentMonday 27th August 2012
One Borolo’s (Macronesean) Shearwater was at the Brisdges of Ross today (Niall T Keogh, John N Murphy and Neal Warnock).
There was very little other seabirds off the Bridges with only one Balearic Shearwater, 14 Sooty Shearwaters, ten Storm Petrels, four Common Scoter, seven Bonxies, six Arctic ASkuas, five Sandwich Terns, 16 Arctic Terns and two Puffins.
One Spotted Redshank, four Little Egrets and 650 Black-tailed Godwits were at the Shannon Airport Lagoon.
Sunday 26th August 2012
At the Bridges of Ross today there were five Sooty Shearwaters, two Storm Petrels, 16 Common Scoter, nine Bonxies, 11 Arctic Skuas, 22 Arctic Terns, 18 Sandwich Terns, one Common Tern and one Puffin.
One adult Ring-billed Gull was at Doonbeg.
Sunday 26th August 2012
Little Egret at Tarbert ©Tom Tarpey
18 Little Egrets were at three high tide roosts around Tarbert Bay today.
A Peregrine was seen on the estaury at Cahergal, Askeaton.
Saturday 25th August 2012
A junenile Black Tern was at Rinneville Bay, Kilcredaun.
Today at the Bridges of Ross there were two Balearic Shearwaters, three Sooty Shearwaters, two Common Scoter, 14 Bonxies, five Pomarine Skuas, 32 Arctic Skuas, 20 Arctic Terns, 71 Sandwich Terns, two Sabine’s Gulls and nine Puffins.
Friday 24th August 2012
At the Bridges of Ross today there was good passage with four Balearic Shearwaters, 54 Sooty Shearwaters 2,700 plus Manx Shearwaters, 240 plus Fulmars, 24 Storm Petrels, one male Common Scoter, six Great Skuas (Bonxie), two adult pale phase Pomarine Skuas, ten Arctic Skuas, two adult Sabine’s Gulls, 36 Kittiwakes, two Sandwich Terns, 16 Arctic Terns two juvenile Black Terns, ten Puffins four Whimbrel, 90 Dunlins, one Sanderling, one Ringed Plover and three Knot.
Leave a commentThursday 23rd August 2012
At the Bridges of Ross there were five Sooty Shearwaters 300 Manx Shearwaters, 325 Fulmars, 100 Storm Petrels 12 Great Skua (Bonxie), one sub-adult pale phase Pomarine Skua, six Arctic Skuas, 23 Kittiwakes, 17 Sandwich Terns four Arctic Terns and one Puffin.
Leave a commentWednesday 22nd August 2012
Three Great Shearwaters, 56 Sooty Shearwaters, an adult Long-tailed Skua, five Pomerine Skuas, 32 Arctic Skuas, 48 Bonxies, a Leach’s Petrel, 90 Storm Petrels, three Sabine’s Gulls, seven Whimbrel, a Merlin, a Great Northern Diver and a Red-throated Diver were the hightlights at The Bridges of Ross today.
A Little Stint flew northwards over Kilbaha harbour.
Tuesday 21st August 2012
There were 160 Black-tailed Godwit and eight Little Egret at the Shannon Airport Lagoon this evening and over 2500 Starling went to roost in the reeds close to the bank. A Common Sandpiper was at Dinish Point
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