Galley Head Birding

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July 3, 2009 - a bit more like it....

A decent wee south-westerly blow this evening so headed out to Galley, and was duly rewarded with a fine cory's shearwater, more or less the first bird in the scope (101)! A steady trickle of them past over the next hour and a half, with a wee rush towards the end, resulting in a final tally of 37, plus 1 storm petrel and 2 puffins. Not a bad start to the seawatch season - there'll be a few folk out fIrst thing I'd say.
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July 1, 2009 - a strange day....

Lets just say that 2 collared doves on patch on the way to kerry (to dip on the caspo tern there, or not there, as it turned out) were the best things I saw today. Its definately time to give up twitching! 

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June 30, 2009 - new blog

came across this gem the other day - it's all true of course....norman's thoughts

 

Seawatching season starts tomorrow - yippee! No sign of any impending south-westerlies yet though, but you never know....

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June 27, 2009 - here be dragons...

Still no birds on patch so here's a pic of a male keeled skimmer that I took in Kerry last week. The seawatching will be starting very soon, with any luck!

 

keeled skimmer

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June 21, 2009 - bring on the fish

No birds today but a minimum of 6 bottlenose dolphins were feeding and splashing around close in at Long Strand all day - they don't normally hang around so long.
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Galley Head Birding

Birding around Galley Head, County Cork

Year List Challenge 2009

1st North Don 88.89%
2nd Girdleness 85.34%
3rd Portlethen 80.00%
4th Lough Beg 75.16%
5th Galley 74.81%
6th South Don 74.47%
7th Folkestone 55.70%

based on last 3 year's average total
updated 3/07/09

Best Patch find 2009

• Ring Ouzel - Galley 15/4
• White-billed Diver - Portlethen 11/5
• White-billed Diver - Girdleness 12/5
• Icterine Warbler - Folkestone 14/5
• Red-backed Shrike - North Don 17/5

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