Tuesday, 4 September 2012

26th August 2012 Bridges of Ross & Doonbeg Calm then S1 and clear

Manx Shearwater c.350
Sooty Shearwater 3
Fulmar c.300
Scoter 5
Bonxie 6
Arctic Skua 3
Sandwich Tern 7
Arctic Tern 3
Auk sp. 21
Razorbill 1
Puffin 3
Snipe 10 in off
Turnstone 5
Ringed Plover 3
Sanderling 3
Chough 2

Bottle-nosed Dolphin c.10

Doonbeg
Ring-billed Gull 1 ex.


Ring-billed Gull at Doonbeg
With sea-watching quiet we visited the local estuary and found this beauty amongst an assemblage of Gulls and Terns. Whilst adult-like, it is presumably a third-winter based on its single mirror to p10.

Chough at Bridges of Ross


Bottle-nosed Dolphins off the Bridges of Ross