BOATSTRAND:  1st-winter Glaucous Gull (MC).

ANNESTOWN:  1st-winter Mediterranean Gull (").

TRAMORE:  Ruff with small Black-tailed Godwit flock at the boating lake (").

CARRIGANORE (nr Waterford cit):  Green Sandpiper, 30+ Long-tailed Tits & 2 Red Squirrels (JF, AH).

DERRIGAL (nr Portlaw): 42 Greylag geese & 15 Whooper Swans (PMW).

PORTLAW / COOLFIN:  Green Sandpiper along River Clodiagh (").

TIBBERAGHNY (Co Kilkenny):  177 Greylag Geese (2 with red neck-bands) & 71 Whooper Swans (").


Saturday, January 30, 2016

BOATSTRAND:  2 1st-winter G;aucous Gulls (MC).

KILMACTHOMAS:  Male Brambling (").

TRAMORE BACKSTRAND:  Female Goldeneye & adult Mediterranean Gull at Lisselan (MC).

TRAMORE:  Female/immature Back Redstart at Ladies's Slip, west end of Tramore strand (RZ).

FERRY POINT:  1st-winter Glaucous Gull & adult Yellow-legged Gull (CF).

WHITING BAY:  6+ Tree Sparrows on usual feeders at Springfield Lower, 2 Stock Doves & 7+ yellowhammers in stubble north of west car park at Whiting Bay (").

DUNGARVAN:  5 SPOONBILLS on the Cunnigar, 3rd-winter Yellow-legged Gull at Boreenatra, 5 Pintail, 7 Shoveler & adult Long-tailed Duck in Western Bay (").


Friday, January 29, 2016

FERRY POINT:  1st-winter Glaucous Gull (ADM).

BOASTRAND:  2nd-winter Glaucous Gull at harbour (KA).


Thursday, January 28, 2016

DUNMORE EAST:  1st-winter Iceland Gull (MC).