August 28, 2006
The bridges were dull....waterford was nice though!
The head was wrecked so i took a day off and went up to the bridges on friday.
Reasonably quiet.
2 leaches petrels.
2 juv black terns.
A few great shears.
a few balearics.
A 3rd year Pomarine skua.
A couple of arctic skuas.
1 grey phalarope.
and in the evening I had 2 juv intermediate type long tailed skuas.
Saturday morning was good with about 70 great shearwaters.
2 corys shearwaters.
6 Balearic shearwaters.
Another Pom (dark phase)
A couple of arctic skuas again.
Sunday, save for five minutes of excitement was crap.
8 greats, 1 adult pale pom.
2 arctic skuas.
1 Balearic shearwater.
I then got news of the Booted warbler having been relocated on the Cunnigar in Dungarvan.
I drove from the bridges to dungarvan in 4 hours.
And arrived to find the bird had pitched into cover and not been seen for a short period.
We managed to relocate it, and the bird gave fantastic views for over an hour.
At times it could look like a garden warbler, or an acro or a phylosc!
And in flight it looked very much like whitethroat!
It couldnt make up its mind.
Nice bird all the same!
First tick of the autumn.
Pariah
Worth while links
Irish County yearlists page 2006
Carmo Police
My (outdated) website