KNOCKMEALDOWN MOUNTAINS:  Male Hen Harrier.

CROHAUN:  Long-eared Owl young calling, also a Woodcock.

CLONEA STRAND:  2nd-summer Mediterranean Gull, male Tufted Duck & 3 Common Sandpipers at Ballinclamper, and an Arctic Skua offshore.

BLACKWATER VALLEY:  Spotted Flycatcher at Rincrew wood.

KNOCKMEALDOWN MOUNTAINS: 5 Woodcock, Cuckoo & reeling Grasshopper Warbler at Knockadav, another Cuckoo at Waterford side of the Vee.

Nr KILROSSANTY:  Long-eared Owl.

ARDMORE: 4-6 Mediterranean Gulls at beach, including 3+ 2nd-summer & 1+ 1st-summer bird.

RAM HEAD:  Minke Whale.

Nr KNOCKMEALDOWN MOUNTAINS: Woodcock roding nr Glentaunemon Bridge, Cuckoo calling Boggaghbaun / Boggaghduff, Spotted Flycatcher, Boggaghbaun & 3+ nr Knockaungarriff.

WEST WATERFORD:  EAGLE OWL - apparently ill or injured - found and taken into care.  The bird showed clear signs (feather damage and perhaps its inability or unwillingness to fly) of having escaped or having been released from recent captivity, but otherwise now seems healthy and is eating well (@ 23 June).  There is a previous confirmed record of an escaped Eagle Owl in Co Kerry in 2008 (recaptured amid sensationalist media coverage!),  and there have been reports or rumours of sightings in Northern Ireland and elsewhere.  Irish reports (if genuine) are presumed to involved escaped or perhaps deliberately released birds.  (In Britain, sightings are more frequent but the majority, perhaps all, are again considered to involve or derive from escaped or released birds.)

BLACKWATER VALLEY: 7 singing Reed Warblers & 4 Spotted Flycatchers at Camphire.

RINCREW (nr Youghal): Glaucous Gull at Co Waterford side.

SEAFIELD (nr Bunmahon):  Cuckoo calling.

POLLRONE (Co Kilkenny opposite Coolfin):  Pair of Tree Sparrows nesting.

MOONVEEN (Co Kilkenny opposite Mount Congreve): 3 Jays.

KNOCKMEALDOWN MOUNTAINS: Male Crossbill nr Mt Melleray; Cuckoo calling & Woodcock roding nr Glentaunemon Bridge, the Vee; 4 Crossbills & a female Hen Harrier elsewhere.

ARDMORE:  1st-summer Mediterranean Gull at Curragh beach.

TOWER HILL (nr Portlaw):  Woodcock roding.

FENOR BOG:  Grasshopper Warbler singing.

BALLYSCANLON LAKE:  Spotted Flycatcher.

BROWNSTOWN HEAD: IBERIAN CHIFFCHAFF (1st Irish record) singing in main willow garden.  See video sound-footage (c) Paul Moore.  Further details here.

NORTH WATERFORD:  Marsh Fritillary butterfly between Cannon Hill (SW of Clonmel) and Cahernaleague, Ballinamult: hit windscreen of car along route.  This species has apparently not been seen in Co Waterford since the 1970s.

CROUGHAUN HILL:  2 Woodock roding.

DURROW BRIDGE (nr Stradbally):  Spotted Flycatcher.

BALLINTLEA (nr Crohaun): 2-3 Woodcock roding.

ANNESTOWN BOG:  Grasshopper Warbler singing.

CARRICK-ON-SUIR (Co Tipperary): Grasshopper Warbler near castle.

CROUGHAUN HILL (nr Kilmacthomas): 2 Woodcock roding.

Nr TALLOW: Jay, Lyrenacarriga / Ballycondon & Spotted Flycatcher, Shean More.

RAM HEAD: 174 occupied Kittiwake nests in study plots (most of colony), a slight increase from 169 last year.

BLACKWATER VALLEY: 6 Reed Warblers singing at Camphire, also a Spotted Flycatcher & 36 Long-tailed Tits.

COOLYDOODY WOOD (nr Tallow): Jay in Co Cork part of wood.

MID WATERFORD:  Buzzard.

HELVICK HEAD: 5 Storm Petrels & 2 Puffins west, Great Skua (seawatch 18:15-19:00).

RAM HEAD:  Storm Petrel, Great Skua, skua species & a Common Dolphin.

Nr ARDMORE:  2+ Tree Sparrows (& a nest with chicks) along Ardoginna / Goat Island road.

BALLYSCANLAN LAKE:  HOBBY & 3 Spotted Flycatchers.

EAST WATERFORD:  Buzzard.

KILMEADEN POOLS:  Female Gadwall.

MONAVULLAGH MOUNTAINS:  Cuckoo at Bohadoon, Cuckoo & 4 Green Hairstreak butterflies at Coumaraglinmountain.

Nr DUNGARVAN:  Spotted Flycatcher, Ballycullane & Windgap to Ballyharrahan.

WEST WATERFORD:  Male Hen Harrier.

BALLYSCANLAN LAKE:  OSPREY & 2 HOBBIES.

BALLYSCANLAN LAKE:  OSPREY, 3 HOBBIES & a Cuckoo.