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Wednesday, July 29, 2015

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).

Sunday, July 26, 2015

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).

Saturday, July 25, 2015

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).

Thursday, July 23, 2015

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).

Sunday, July 19, 2015

RAM HEAD: 20 Fin Whales offshore this afternoon, also dark-phase medium
skua species (ADM).

ARDMORE: Adult and juvenile Mediterranean Gull at harbour 
(").

Friday, July 17, 2015

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 (").

Thursday, July 16, 2015

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.

Wednesday, July 15, 2015

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).

Monday, July 13, 2015

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

Thursday, July 09, 2015

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).

Wednesday, July 08, 2015

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

Tuesday, July 07, 2015

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

Sunday, July 05, 2015

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).


Saturday, July 04, 2015



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).

Wednesday, July 01, 2015

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