FEBRUARY 2013
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TRAMORE: 17 Gadwall at boating lake.
BALLYSCANLAN: 12 Crossbills.
GARRARUS: 7 Common Scoter & 3 Red-throated Divers.
EAST WATERFORD: 6 Buzzards at 4 locations.
TRAMORE: 4 Long-tailed Ducks in Backstrand, 11 Common Scoter & 3 Red-throated
Divers in Bay.
BROWNSTOWN HEAD: 17 Red-throated Divers on sea & Merlin.
DUNGARVAN: Green Sandpiper at Brickey canal.
COOLFIN / DERRIGAL: 13 Whooper Swans & 4 Greylag Geese at Derrigal cross.
EAST WATERFORD: Buzzard.
KILMACTHOMAS: Dipper.
KNOCKADERRY RESERVOIR: Male RING-NECKED DUCK still present.
Nr DUNGARVAN: Barn Owl.
DUNGARVAN: Otter at town quay.
COLLIGAN WOOD: Dipper.
RAM HEAD: 7 Common Scoter on sea.
LISMORE: 2 Dippers.
BLACKWATER CALLOWS: Crossbills heard along roadway, 63 Whooper Swans.
DUNGARVAN: Jack Snipe at Ballyneety, Slavonian Grebe off
Ballynacourty pier, 2 Common Scoter off Ballynacourty lighthouse.
TRAMORE: Male Hen Harrier.
Sat 23 Feb:
KNOCKADERRY RESERVOIR: Male RING-NECKED DUCK.
TRAMORE: Spotted Redshank at Backstrand, Ring-billed Gull,
8 Shoveler & 14 Gadwall at boating lake.
DUNHILL: Water Rail.
BALLYNEVIN (nr Mothel): 3 Jays.
BALLYVOONEY COVE: 2 Common Scoter.
DUNGARVAN: Slavonian Grebe & 2 Long-tailed Ducks off
Gold Coast, SPOONBILL roosting on Cunnigar opposite pitch & putt course, Merlins
at Ballyneety & near Ballynagaul.
HELVICK HEAD: 2nd-winter Glaucous Gull.
Thurs 21 Feb:
DUNGARVAN: 1st-winter Iceland Gull at Ballynagaul, 1st-winter Glaucous
Gull & 2 Long-tailed Ducks off pitch & putt course, 6 Great Northern Divers
around bay.
HELVICK HEAD: 2nd-winter Glaucous Gull.
Tues 19 Feb:
WEST WATERFORD: Buzzard.
Mon 18 Feb:
TRAMORE: Adult Ring-billed Gull, 8 Shoveler & 22 Gadwall at boating lake. EAST
WATERFORD: Buzzard.
DUNGARVAN: Slavonian Grebe at Ballynacourty. HELVICK: 1st-winter Glaucous
Gull.
Sun 17 Feb: DUNMORE EAST: 7 Purple Sandpipers.
COOLFIN / DERIGAL: 12 Whooper Swans.
WHITING BAY: Glaucous Gull.
BALLYSCANLAN: 12 Crossbills.
MONAVULLAGH MOUNTAINS: 12 Stock Doves & 15-20 Ravens at Coumaraglinmountain.
TRAMORE: Ring-billed Gull at boating lake.
EAST WATERFORD: Buzzard at two locations. Nr KILMACTHOMAS: Tree
Sparrow (rare inland in Co Waterford).
WEST WATERFORD: Buzzard.
DUNGARVAN: Male Hen Harrier.
TRAMORE: Adult Ring-billed Gull, Mediterranean Gull,
3 Shoveler & 14 Gadwall at boating lake, Long-tailed Duck at Backstrand.
Tues 12 Feb:
DUNGARVAN: Slavonian Grebe & 2 Long-tailed Ducks off
Ballinacourty pier.
RAM HEAD: Fin Whale & c15 Common Dolphins.
BLACKWATER VALLEY: 2 Green Sandpipers at Dromana Bridge.
TRAMORE: Spotted Redshank, 3 Long-tailed Duck, 28 Red-breasted
Mergansers & 64 Ringed Plover at Backstrand. BALLYVOYLE HEAD: Fin Whale. Nr
DRUM HILLS: Male Hen Harrier.
Sun 10 Feb:
HELVICK HEAD: 2 2nd-winter Iceland Gulls.
Sat 9 Feb:
DUNMORE EAST: 1st-winter CASPIAN GULL & 1st-winter Iceland Gull. CLOHERNAGH
/ CORBALLY: 8 Crossbills. TRAMORE: Merlin, Water Rail
& Small Tortoiseshell butterfly at Lisselan, total 1100 Brent Geese at Backstrand, 4 Shoveler
& 31 Gadwall at boating lake.
BROWNSTOWN HEAD / TRAMORE BAY: Total 235 Red-throated Divers (a record county total) - 160 on sea SE of
the head (east to Benlea) & 75 in Tramore Bay; also 4 Great Crested Grebes, 2 Porpoises &
10+ Common Dolphins in bay. DERRIGAL: 13 Whooper Swans, 250+ Greylag Geese & a Brent
Goose (first ever inland record for Co Waterford?). BALLYVOONEY: 5 Red-throated Divers. DUNGARVAN: Slavonian Grebe & 3 Long-tailed Ducks off Ballinacourty,
SPOONBILL at Killongford. HELVICK HEAD: 2nd-winter Iceland Gull.
Fri 8 Feb:
DUNGARVAN: Long-tailed
Duck off Ballynacourty pier.
Thurs 7 Feb:
KNOCKMEALDOWN MOUNTAINS: Hen
Harrier.
WEST WATERFORD: Buzzard.
Weds 6 Feb:
ARDMORE: 3+ Mediterranean
Gulls including colour-ringed 2nd-winter 'E666' - ringed in Antwerp, Belgium, in June 2011.
Tues 5 Feb:
DUNGARVAN: SPOONBILL & 2 Long-tailed Ducks at the Cunnigar, Brambling, Blackcap & 17 Siskins at Strandside.
VILLIERSTOWN: Long-eared Owl. LISMORE: Kingfisher. WEST
WATERFORD: Buzzard.
Mon 4 Feb:
DUNGARVAN: Male Brambling at Clonea Road.
Sun 3 Feb:
BLACKWATER CALLOWS: 158 Whooper Swans.
HELVICK HEAD: 3 Iceland Gulls (2nd-winter &
2 1st-winters) moving between here and the Cunnigar, Dungarvan.
DUNGARVAN: 2nd-winter Mediterranean Gull at Killongford.
DUNMORE EAST: 3 1st-winter Glaucous Gulls & a
2nd-winter Iceland Gull.
DUNMORE EAST: 1st-winter CASPIAN GULL, Little
Gull, 2 Iceland Gulls (2nd-winter & 3rd-winter) & 2nd-winter Glaucous
Gull, also 5+ Fin Whales & 100+ Common Dolphins offshore.
WATERFORD CITY: c10 Waxwings at Ardkeen village.
TRAMORE: Short-eared Owl &
Kingfisher at Lisselan.
CLONEA STRAND: Merlin at Ballinclamper.
DUNGARVAN: SPOONBILL off pitch & putt course, Black Redstart at Abbeyside Promenade, 2 male Crossbills at Ballynacourty,
Slavonian Grebe off Ballynacourty pier, Water Rail at Killongford, & Kingfisher
at Brickey canal.
ARDMORE: 5 Red-throated Divers W off bay, Otter at Curragh
strand.
RAM HEAD: Porpoise & 60+ Common
Dolphins. WHITING BAY: 65 Sanderling & 4 Red-throated Divers.
TALLOW: Dipper on River Bride Nr CAPPOQUIN: Otter at Kitchen Hole on Blackwater.
LISMORE: Kingfisher at canal, Jay & 2 Treecreepers.
Fri 1 Feb:
LISMORE: 2 Kingfishers at canal.
WEST WATERFORD: 2 Buzzards.
DUNGARVAN: 3 Long-tailed Ducks & 8 Great Northern Divers inside Cunnigar.
SEAFIELD (nr Bunmahon): 3 Green Sandpipers. EAST WATERFORD: Buzzard.
Previous months
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Buzzard, east Waterford, 28 Feb 2013 © D Clarke |
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Redshank, Gold Coast, Dungarvan, 25 Feb 2013 © AD Malcolm |
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Raven, Ram Head, 25 Feb 2013 © AD Malcolm |
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Chough, Ram Head, 25 Feb 2013 © AD Malcolm |
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Ring-necked Duck, male with Tufted Ducks, Knockaderry Reservoir, 25 Feb 2013 © M Cowming |
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Dipper, Colligan Wood, 25 Feb 2013 © F O'Connell |
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© F O'Connell |
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Treecreeper, Colligan Wood, 25 Feb 2013 © F O'Connell |
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Cormorant entangled in fishing net, Ballyvoyle, 23 Feb 2013 © F O'Connell |
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unidentified grebe (Black-necked?), Abbeyside, Dungarvan, 23 Feb 2013 © P Veale, also seen 21 Feb |
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© P Veale |
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Glaucous Gull, 2nd-winter, Helvick, 23 Feb 2013 © P Veale |
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© P Veale |
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© P Veale |
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Choughs, the Cunnigar, Dungarvan, 23 Feb 2013 © S O'Farrell |
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Finch/Starling flock, Dungarvan, 21 Feb 2013 © F O'Connell - includes a 'mule'/hybrid finch (below) |
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© F O'Connell |
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© F O'Connell |
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Glaucous Gull, 2nd-winter, Helvick, 21 Feb 2013 © PM Walsh |
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Ring-billed Gull, adult, Tramore boating lake, 18 Feb 2013 © D Clarke |
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Buzzard, east Waterford, 15 Feb 2013 © D Weldon |
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Red-breasted Merganser, male, the Cunnigar, Dungarvan, 14 Feb 2013 © AD Malcolm |
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© AD Malcolm |
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Great Northern Diver, the Cunnigar, Dungarvan, 14 Feb 2013 © AD Malcolm |
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Great Black-backed Gulls feeding on Porpoise, the Cunnigar, Dungarvan, 14 Feb 2013 © AD Malcolm |
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Iceland Gull, 2nd-winter, Helvick, 9 Feb 2013 © M Cowming |
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Mediterranean Gull, 2nd-winter E666, Curragh, Ardmore, 6 Feb 2013 © AD Malcolm - ringed Antwerp 2011 |
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Kingfisher, Lismore, 5 Feb 2013 © D Clarke |
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Brent Goose 'KBWB', Curragh, Ardmore, 4 Feb 2013 © AD Malcolm - ringed Dungarvan 18/12/08 |
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Brent Geese KARY & KPRY, Curragh, Ardmore, 4 Feb 2013 © AD Malcolm - ringed W Iceland May 2008 |
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Little Egret, Ardmore, 2 Feb 2013 © AD Malcolm |
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Otter, Curragh, Ardmore, 2 Feb 2013 © AD Malcolm |
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© AD Malcolm |
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Jay, Lismore, 2 Feb 2013 © D Clarke |
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Kingfisher, Lismore, 2 Feb 2013 © D Clarke |
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Treecreeper, Lismore, 2 Feb 2013 © D Clarke |
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© D Clarke |
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Sparrowhawk, Lismore, 2 Feb 2013 © D Clarke |
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Kestrel, Lismore, 2 Feb 2013 © D Clarke |
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Chough, the Cunnigar, Dungarvan, 1 Feb 2013 © AD Malcolm |
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Great Northern Diver, Cunnigar, Dungarvan, 1 Feb 2013 © AD Malcolm |
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Great Northern Diver, Dungarvan, 1 Feb 2013 © D Clarke |
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Buzzard, west Waterford, 1 Feb 2013 © D Clarke |
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