November 01, 2005
Chim chimeny
On saturday evening we received news from DF that he had found 2 chimney swifts on sherkin island but they had been harried off by a sparrowhawk.
The next morning HH and myself were in baltimore in the hopes of relocating the birds.
No more than 2 seconds out of the car then one flew by us and proceeded to give incredible views for the remainder of the day!
A second was found elsewhere in baltimore and another in clonakilty by other birders.
We stopped in clonakilty and i got a brief view of this bird.
Lter that evening we had juvenile turtle dove at Knockadoon and a flyover unidentified marsh tern
On monday we headed down to baltimore in the hopes of getting across to cape clear for the Yellow Rumped warbler found there sunday.
We amanaged to charter a boat but the bird was not to be seen despite having been there earlier in the morning.
The grey cheeked thrush (found thursday)gave incredible views for the entire day however and was a real treat to watch.
A ist winter grey phalarope was also present in the south harbour viewing down to a few feet and was the first i had ever seen up close...almost as good as a tick!!
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