June 30, 2005
HAHA
I ran home at lunch yesterday to get my driving license and just as i was about to leave the house i got a call from A.Robertson to say that the laughing gull which had been seen at cobh on sunday was in cork city centre, by the opera house, just five minutes walk from my home.
Need less to say i didnt WALK but RAN to the site.
the bird had moved down river and whilst at Penrose wharf on the fone to Graham Gordon (the man responsible for Re-finding this bird) the bird landed in front of me on a roof with some black headed gulls.
Even with the naked eye i could see the shape of the head and bill and a few expletives G.Gordon and A.Robertson were beside me watching the bird.
I watched the gull for over an hour and even fed him his lunch of fresh bread!
Cracking bird!
Pariah......HAHA
June 20, 2005
Galley ho!
First proper seawatch of the year.Good passage of manx, two bonxies and a single storm petrel.Sin é!but its early yet.
Pariah
June 13, 2005
Nothing to see at Bally C
Title says it all really....well nothing conclusive....i was grilling a tree pipit for about 20 minutes on the sea weed by the lake but the bird refused to call for me...which means it most certainly was a tree pipit!
Grrrr Arrrgh.
Pariah
June 07, 2005
Caped crusader
Spent the weekend on cape clear....with not much to show for it...saturday was a beautiful day but the winds were westerly so no seawatching of note and certaily no passerine migration.Sunday was a completely miserable event with collosal downpours all day...and i was badly hung over from the night before!Monday was brighter and clear with south easterly winds...but no birds other than an aberrant blackbird i would gladly shoot!
Ah well...maybe in august!
Pariah
June 02, 2005
Long over due update
Oops...havent updated in a while!
Well this year i have had 6 ticks.
Purple heron on the 27th of march at tacumshin.
Cattle egret was a good self flound tick at clonakilty on the 30th of april and the next day a Black winged stilt turned up close by in the same area!
Monday the 2nd of may produced Golden oriole and broad billed sandpiper at ballycotton!!
And the following weekend a whiskered tern showed up at tacumshin along with a garganey and a montagus harrier!So not a bad spring at all.
I have recently moved to cork and since coming down have found birds like hoopoe, ring necked duck, cattle egret, turtle dove, yellow legged gull and carrion crow.My list is currently at 273 (irish list)
Roll on the seawatching season i say!;-)
Pariah