HELVICK HEAD: 6 Great Skuas, a light-phase Pomarine Skua & 10+ Puffins (2 flying carrying sandeels) (3-hr seawatch; FO'C, JAP).

DUNGARVAN TOWN: Yellow-legged Gull (").

CLONEA BAY: 2 adult Mediterranean Gulls & 5 Common Terns (MC snr).

TRAMORE BACKSTRAND:  Cuckoo on the seawall at Lisselan, adult Mediterranean Gull & another Cuckoo at Kilmacleague (DS).

CLONEA: Adult Roseate Tern & 2 adult Common Terns, 20:50 (JAP).

DUNMORE EAST:  4 Mediterranean Gulls (2 adults, 2nd-cal-yr & 3rd-cal-yr) & a Black Guillemot (MC).

ANNE VALLEY:   Yellowhammer along the Anne Valley walk (DS).

RAM HEAD:

Seawatch 16:45-18:15 (wind 6-7 SW, PMW):

'Blue' Fulmar ('D') 1W

Sooty Shearwater 1W

Manx Shearwater 325W

Puffin 7W.

HELVICK HEAD: Seawatch 12:00-13:30: 13.30: 1 dark/phase Arctic Skua, 6 Storm Petrels, 7 Puffins, 2 Common Terns, 1 Arctic Tern & lots of Manx Shearwaters, Gannets & large auks (JAP).

Saturday, July 09, 2016

HELVICK HEAD: 

Seawatch 10:15-15:15 (EAMacL, BS, JAP):

Puffin 46

Sooty Shearwater 8

small shearwater sp. 1 at 14:00

Storm Petrel 6

Bonxie 4

Arctic Skua 1

Common Tern 2

Otter 1  

DUNGARVAN: 3 adult Mediterranean Gulls at Barnawee, 3-4 Common Sandpipers & 2 Whimbrel at Killongford, Yellow-legged Gull at Dungarvan town (JAP, BS).

CLONEA BAY: Sub-adult Mediterranean Gull at Clonea, 2 Common Sandpipers at Ballyvoyle & 1 at Ballinclamper, 3 Great Northern Divers in bay ("). 

TRAMORE BACKSTRAND: Common Sandpiper at Pickardstown, Lapwing & 5 Greenshank at Lisselan (AJ).

HELVICK HEAD:  2 light-phase Arctic Skuas harassing Kittiwakes, 1 dark-phase Pomarine Skua, 18 Common Scoter (3+15), Black Guillemot carrying food, & large rafts of Manx Shearwaters feeding offshore (JAP).

DUNGARVAN:  Common Sandpiper & 2 Whimbrel at Killongford, Yellow-legged Gull on foreshore opposite pitch & putt course (").

DUNGARVAN:  OSPREY flew over near old glass factory on approach to town (ADM).

HELVICK HEAD: 60-80 Common Scoter W 92 big lines 30-40 each) & 18 E (6+12), a Minke Whale & lots of Manx Shearwaters (").

TRAMORE:  Reed Warbler singing at reedbed at north end of Tramore boating lake (AJ) - a new breeding season site for the species.

RAM HEAD:  GREAT SHEARWATER (quite close in), several thousand Manx Shearwaters (off Cape Island Co Cork), 12 Common Scoter W & 4 E, 2 Puffins & 20+ Fin Whales (ADM).


Monday, July 04, 2016

DUNGARVAN:  Male HOBBY flew over town at 21:25, heading west but chased by Black-headed Gulls then flew south (FO'C).

DUNGARVAN:  3 Common Sandpipers, Ballyneety; 1 Wigeon, Western Bay (BS, FO'C, RAW, JAP).

CLONEA BAY: 2 Common Sandpipers & a juvenile Dipper at Ballyvoyle; another Common Sandpiper at Ballinclamper; juvenile Wheatear at Clonea (").

ARDMORE: 2 2nd-calendar-year Mediterranean Gulls, Curragh strand (").

Nr WHITING BAY: 7 Tree Sparrows at Moord (").

BLACKWATER VALLEY: 3 Stock Doves & a juvenile Dipper at Clashmore; 2 Yellowhammers be Clashmore; eed Warbler at Raheen Quay, Clashmore Broads (").

GRAIGUEARUSH: Grasshopper Warbler reeling & 2 Redpoll (").

VARIOUS:  85 species for the day (").

TRAMORE BACKSTRAND: Stock Dove & 13 Shelducklings (10 + 3) at Lisselan, 157 Curlew on saltmarsh (AJ).

HELVICK HEAD: 2 Great Skuas past, Black Guillemot, juv Mediterranean Gull & 2 Puffins; adult Puffins present here for at least a month (JAP).

BALLYVOYLE: Spotted Flycatcher & juvenile Dipper (").

CLONEA: Great Northern Diver (").

ARDMORE: Stock Dove (").

DUNGARVAN: 2 adult Mediterranean Gulls at Duckspool; 7 Lapwing & 3 Whimbrel at Killongford (").

VARIOUS: Curlew & Redshank widespread (").

ARDMORE: 4 Mediterranean Gulls (adult & 3 1st-summers) at Curragh strand (ADM).

DUNGARVAN: Adult Mediterranean Gull on the Cunnigar (").

Sunday, June 26, 2016

BALLYRAFTER WOODS (nr Lismore):  Flock of 25-30 Crossbills (ADM).

KNOCKMEALDOWN MOUNTAINS: Male Hen Harrier (ADM).

CARRIGAVANTRY:  3 Snipe (AJ).


Tuesday, June 21, 2016

ARDMORE:  5 1st-summer Mediterranean Gulls at Curragh beach (ADM).

RAM HEAD: 15 Fin Whales today (ADM).

TRAMORE BACKSTRAND: 6-7 Whimbrel with Curlew flock, similar nos of Painted Lady along Lissekan seawall (MC).

Sunday, June 19, 2016

KILSHEELAN:  Female Mandarin duck again with 5 chicks on Co Waterford bank of River Suir (MC).

RAM HEAD: 20 Common Scoter, single Great, Pomarine & Arctic Skuas, good passage of Manx Shearwaters, 3 Porpoises & a Minke Whale (seawatch 10:00-12:00; ADM, AT).

ARDMORE: Immature Mediterranean Gull at Curragh (").

BUNMAHON: 7 Crossbills (1 male, 6 female-type) in pines at Bunmahon bridge (DW, NL).

TRAMORE: Cuckoo flew N over Monvoy valley at 05:45 (DS).