DUNGARVAN: Wood Sandpiper at Killongford pools, 18:30 (JAP).

Tuesday, July 28, 2015

WATERFORD HARBOUR: 16+ Mediterranean Gulls (8 adults, 6 juveniles,  1 1st-summer & 1 2nd-summer) & a 1st-summer Little Gull at Woodstown this evening (PA).

HELVICK HEAD:

Seawatch 08:15-10:15 ( FO'C, JAP, PV):

Bonxie 19

Pomarine Skua 14

Arctic Skua 5

LONG-TAILED SKUA 1 

Puffin 100+

Common Scoter 9

Arctic Tern 100+

Common Tern 6

Storm Petrel 1-3

Manx Shearwater 1000+

Porpoise 1

TRAMORE BOATING LAKE: 4 adult Mediterranean Gulls (JDP).

ARDMORE (yesterday 25/7): 6 juvenile Mediterranean Gulls at Ardmore harbour near pier (PMW).

HELVICK HEAD: Juvenile LONG-TAILED SKUA past, 08:50 (JAP, FO'C).

RAM HEAD: Sunfish (ADM); Arctic Skua off-passage, 77 large & near-fledgling Kittiwakes from 145 nests counted in mid June (PMW).

DUNGARVAN: At Ballyneety, Green Sandpiper flushed from ponds (Moorhen breeding there), Dipper on

river & 3 Common Sandpipers at Ballyneety bridge (PV).

GREAT NEWTOWN HEAD: 2 Arctic Skuas W & a Black Guillemot E (seawatch 15:45-16:15, JF).

WATERFORD CITY: Hummingbird Hawk-moth feeding in garden (DS).

RAM HEAD: 20 Fin Whales offshore this afternoon, also dark-phase medium

skua species (ADM).

ARDMORE: Adult and juvenile Mediterranean Gull at harbour 

(").

HELVICK HEAD: Dark-phase Pomarine Skua (FO'C, JAP).

BALLYVOYLE:  50+ Choughs (").

CLONEA: 5 Whimbrel & 2 Common Sandpipers at Ballinclamper (").

DUNGARVAN:  5 Common Sandpipers at Killongford pools (").

HELVICK HEAD:

Seawatch 19:35-21:10 (CF):

Arctic Skua 4 (2 dark adults, 1 pale adult, 1 juvenile)

Bonxie 1

Puffin 1

Manx Shearwater c4500

HELVICK HEAD: 

Seawatch 16.00-17.45 (JAP):

Bonxie 2

Arctic Skua I dark-phase  adult

Pom Skua 1 light-phase adult

Puffin 3 - 5.

Off HELVICK HEAD:  50 Common Scoter W past boat a half mile offshore (FO'C).

Off MINE HEAD: 5 Pomarine Skyas, 2 Great Skuas & a 1st-yr Mediterranean  Gull 1 mile (").

RAM HEAD: 7+ Fin Whales 15 km

south of head (ADM).

DUNGARVAN: 5+ Common Sandpipers at Killongford (JAP).

RAM HEAD: Groups of 15 and 16 Common Scoter; several thousand Manx Shearwaters loosely associated with 3 Fin Whales, also 3 Porpoises, this  morning (ADM).

ARDMORE: 4 Mediterranean Gulls in harbour including adult 'E666' (ADM).

TRAMORE BACKSTRAND: Common Tern & Common Sandpiper (AJ).

TRAMORE BACKSTRAND: 4 Common Sandpipers & a Mediterranean Gull at Lisselan, 2 Common Sandpipers & an injured Sparrowhawk at Kilmacleague (AJ).

TRAMORE BACKSTRAND: 2 Little Terns at Kilmacleague, 4 Common Sandpipers at Lisselan (AJ).

Saturday, July 04, 2015

TRAMORE BACKSTRAND: Reed Warbler & 6 Choughs at Lisselan (AJ).

Friday, July 03, 2015

SEAFIELD, BUNMAHON: 3 Green Sandpipers (DW).

Friday, July 03, 2015

BALLYSCANLAN / CARRIGAVANTRY: Long-eared Owl chicks calling at two locations (MDe).

TRAMORE BACKSTRAND: GLOSSY IBIS again at Clohernagh (EAMacL).

BROWNSTOWN HEAD: Arctic Skua W, 91 Manx Shearwaters & 2 Mute Swans E, & a Storm Petrel (seawatch 05:45-07:30, JF); 2 pale adult Arctic Skuas E, Bonxie W, 360 Manx Shearwaters E (seawatch 16:00-16:30), Clouded Yellow butterfly & lots of Meadow Brown & Small Tortoiseshells on land (EAMacL).

TRAMORE BACKSTRAND: Reed Warbler & Common Sandpiper at Lisselan, 06:45 (JF).