HELVICK HEAD: Spotted Flycatcher (MC snr).

BROWNSTOWN HEAD: Spotted Flycatcher (PMW).

GREAT NEWTOWN HEAD:

Seawatch 1850-1940 (JF):

Manx Shearwater: 90 E, 33 W

Gannet: 4 E, 3 W

Kittiwake: 18 E, 27 W
Guillemot: 4 E, 3 W

Razorbill: 1 E.

BALLINLOUGH:  male & female GARGANEY, Water Rail calling, Spotted Flycatcher & 2 Treecreepers (DS, JF).

KILL:  Cuckoo at water treatment plant (").

BALLINLOUGH: male & female GARGANEY still present (DW).

RAM HEAD:

Seawatch 1605-1705 (wind 4 SW, MAD, PMW):

Puffin: 5 W

Manx Shearwater: 2 E, 550 W

Fulmar: 2 E, 4 W

Gannet: 46 W

Guillemot: 245 W

Razorbill: 1 E, 73 W

Unidentified large auks: 7 E, 69 W

Kittiwake: not counted

HELVICK HEAD: 2 Puffins on sea, also hundreds of Manx Shearwaters, Guillemots & Razorbills feeding (ADM, AT).

BALLINLOUGH: 2 GARGANEY (male + female), 12:00 (DW, MC snr).

Off HELVICK HEAD:  Adult Little Gull, Great Skua, 3 Pomarine Skuas & 500+ Common Dolphins 10 miles off Helvick from a fishing boat (FO'C).

Pomarine Skua, off Helvick Head © F O'Connell

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GREAT NEWTOWN HEAD:  6 Black Guillemots (AJ).

NEWTOWN GLEN:  Blackcap, & fledgling Grey Wagtails & Goldcrests (").

TRAMORE BACKSTRAND:  Cuckoo at Lisselan (").

MID WATERFORD:  Buzzard (PMW).

WATERFORD CITY: Hummingbird Hawk-moth feeding on Aubretia at Ferrybank (LR).

Nr BALLYSCANLON: Cuckoo calling this evening (LR).

Nr WATERFORD CITY: 2 Dippers (including bird carrying food) at Ballindud roundabout (KB).

BELLE LAKE:  Grasshopper Warbler, 8 Sedge Warblers & 7 Whitethroats (AJ).

Nr JACK MEADE'S;  Wheatear on road (").

EAST WATERFORD:  Buzzard (").

WHITING BAY: Short-eared Owl at east end (MC snr), later flew W over fields towards next car park (MC) (video).

MODELIGO: Cuckoo calling (per MC snr).

KILL: 3 Sedge Warblers & Grasshopper Warbler singing at water treatment plant (JF).

BALLINLOUGH: 7 Sedge Warblers (").

EAST WATERFORD: Buzzard at two locations (")

Nr CLASHMORE VILLAGE: metal-ringed Dipper (MC snr).

DUNGARVAN:  Adult-summer Black Tern near Cunnigar point, then flew towards pitch & putt course (FO'C).

ARAGLIN HILLS:  Dipper at Glouncaol Bridge (PMW).

Nr TALLOW:  Stock Dove (").

WEST WATERFORD:  Buzzard (").

ARDMORE: Spotted Flycatcher along Goat Island road (JAP, BS).

ARDMORE: Yellow Wagtail at stream on Curragh Strand, 13:10 (JAP, BS).

TRAMORE BACKSTRAND: c500 Dunlin with 30+ Ringed Plover, 2 Cuckoos, 12 Sedge Warblers, Swift, Whitethroat & hirundines all at Lisselan (AJ).

HELVICK HEAD: 2 Spotted Flycatchers & a Wheatear (CF).

BALLYSCANLAN:  Cuckoo in song, Mute Swan pair have hatched 4 cygnets (MC).

TRAMORE BACKSTRAND:  Cuckoo heard at Lisselan, 6 a.m. (JF).

KNOCKMEALDOWN MOUNTAINS:  WHITE-TAILED EAGLE again (ADM).

GREAT NEWTOWN HEAD:  20 Common Scoter E, 3 Manx Shearwaters W & 3 Black Guillemots (AJ).

Nr DUNGARVAN:  Pine Marten dead on road (MC).