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Weds 31 July:
HELVICK HEAD: GREAT SHEARWATER & Balearic
Shearwater W, 27 Puffins & a Great Skua (seawatches
13:45-14:30 & 17:00-18:10).
FERRY POINT: 3 Common Sandpipers.
Tues 30 July:
GREAT NEWTOWN HEAD: Bottlenose Dolphin.
Mon 29 July:
DUNGARVAN: 2nd-summer Mediterranean Gull at Ballyneety.
ARDMORE: Adult Mediterranean Gull at Ballinclamper.
Sat 27 July:
MT CONGREVE: 2 Comma butterflies along railway track.
Thurs 25 July:
MT CONGREVE: Comma butterfly along railway track.
RAM HEAD: Total of 72 Kittiwake chicks in study plots which held 105 occupied nests on 17 June - a big improvement
over 2012 (when only 2 chick on same date from 117 nests in June).
Weds 24 July:
BROWNSTOWN HEAD: 2 Arctic Skuas & 2 Common Scoter E, 177 Manx Shearwaters
W (80 E) (seawatch 06:30-08:15).
ARDMORE: 4 Mediterranean Gulls (3 at Curragh. adult-summer at Cliff Hotel).
Mon 22 July:
TRAMORE BACKSTRAND: SPOONBILL again at Lisselan.
BUNMAHON: 2 Green Sandpipers & a Common Sandpiper.
BALLYVOYLE COVE: 2 adult Mediterranean Gulls.
CLONEA STRAND: 4 Mediterranean Gulls (2nd-summer & 3 adults) & 3 Common
Sandpipers at Ballinclamper.
Sun 21 July:
RAM HEAD: 11 Great Skuas & 560 Manx Shearwaters E, 58 Common Scoter W (seawatch
06:45-09:45).
WEST WATERFORD: Buzzard.
DUNGARVAN: Adult Yellow-legged Gull at Ballyneety bridge, ault Mediterranean
Gull at the Lookout.
CLONEA STRAND: 6 Mediterranean Gulls (3 adult, 2 2nd-0summer & 1 1st-summer)
at Ballinclamper.
TRAMORE BACKSTRAND: 50+ Swifts feeding over Lisselan.
BROWNSTOWN HEAD: 2 Great Skuas W, 4 Mediterranean Gulls (adult
feeding, juvenile & 2 adults W), 7 Puffins W (1 E), 62 Common Scoter W (11 E) & 460 Manx
Shearwaters E (seawatch 06:40-09:40).
Sat 20 July:
TRAMORE BACKSTRAND:
SPOONBILL again at racecourse lake, Lisselan (
video), also a Tufted Duck &
Reed Warbler singing at Lisselan (new site).
BROWNSTOWN HEAD: Calamotropha paludella (a bulrush-dwelling pyralid moth) trapped
overnight - new to Ireland, subject to confirmation.
GARRARUS: Flock of 67 Choughs, & 100+ Pied Wagtails.
DUNGARVAN: 9 Common Sandpipers at Ballyneety.
HELVICK: 2nd-summer Glaucous Gull.
BALLYMACART: Flock of 27+ Choughs & an immature Dipper.
WHITING BAY: Tree Sparrow & Common Sandpiper at west end.
Fri 19 July:
TRAMORE BACKSTRAND: SPOONBILL at racecourse lake, Lisselan, then flushed by cattle and
flew high & north, also 2 Common Sandpipers & an Emperor dragonfly at Lisselan.
Weds 17 July:
BUNMAHON: 2 Reed Warblers singing, Green Sandpiper &
2 Common Sandpipers.
DUNGARVAN: Green Sandpiper & 3 Common Sandpipers at Ballyneety.
ARDMORE: 3 Mediterranean Gulls at Curragh.
RAM HEAD: 20 Common Scoter & 2 Sunfish.
KNOCKBRACK QUARRY (nr Clashmore): 3 Emperor dragonflies.
Tues 16 July:
BUNMAHON: 2 Reed Warblers singing.
Mon 15 July:
BUNMAHON: Reed Warbler singing (new site).
Sun 14 July:
ARDMORE: Nestling or fledgling Cuckoo from Dunnock nest.
HELVICK: 2nd-summer Glaucous Gull still present.
WEST WATERFORD: Buzzard.
Fri 12 July:
Nr DUNGARVAN: Long-eared Owl.
DUNGARVAN: 6 Common Sandpipers & a male Tufted Duck at Ballyneety.
CARRIGAVRANTRY: Common Sandpiper.
Thurs 11 July:
CARRIGAVRANTRY: HOBBY.
ARDMORE: Adult Mediterranean Gull at Curragh.
EAST WATERFORD: Buzzard.
Weds 10 July:
CLONEA STRAND: Adult Mediterranean Gull at Ballinclamper.
Tues 9 July:
Nr ARDMORE: Adult-summer BONAPARTE'S GULL flew east between Whiting
Bay & Ardmore - 3rd county record.
DUNGARVAN: 3 Mediterranean Gulls (adult opposite Fraher field, adult & 2nd-summer
at Barnawee), 6 Common Sandpipers at Ballyneety.
WATERFORD CITY: 2 Common Terns hawking with 200+ Black-headed Gulls & 200+ Sswifts over Francis Street.
Mon 8 July:
WATERFORD CITY: Roof-nesting Herring Gull with at least one chick at Ballybricken (first City record?).
TRAMORE BACKSTRAND: Mediterranean Gull & 4 Common Sandpipers at Lisselan.
Sat 6 July:
BROWNSTOWN HEAD: 2 Tree Sparrows.
COMERAGH MOUNTAINS: Dipper & 30+ Wheatears (70% juvenile).
DROMANA FOREST (nr Villierstown): Crossbill, Treecreeper & 3 Jays.
Fri 5 July:
IDA Park (nr Waterford city): Treecreeper.
TALLOW: Spotted Flycatcher pair.
Weds 3 July:
EAST WATERFORD: Buzzard.
Tues 2 July:
DUNGARVAN: Kingfisher & Common Sandpiper at Ballyneety.
BROWNSTOWN HEAD: Puffin & 290 Manx Shearwaters W (seawatch 08:00-09:00).
