31 August 2012
Howth: 2 Swifts flying over Howth today.BO'B
Sutton: 50+ Brent Geese at Sutton today.PW
27 August 2012
Dolphin Road, Drimnagh: A Buzzard being mobbed by 2 Rooks
at rooftop height (unusual location for a Buzzard).AR
25 August 2012
Swords: 100+ Black-tailed Godwit, 3 Bar-tailed Godwit,
50 Dunlin, 2 Greenshank, 100+Redshank, 1 Turnstone,
1 Common Sandpiper and 2 Great Crested Grebe;
also
Skerries: 40 Turnstone (some summer-plumaged birds), 2 Arctic
Skua's offshore,1 Eider; also
Gormanstown area: 1 Ruff, 1 juvenile Black Tern, 60 Roseate
Tern,1 Juv Little Tern.BS
24 August 2012
Raheny:
Raven
flying low over Raheny this morning.BO'B
23 August 2012
St. Stephen's Green: pair of Mandarin Ducks
in pond this morning. JG
Turnstone at the Bull Wall (Photo by Jenny Ryan)
22 August 2012
John Paul Park, Cabra: A Sparrowhawk.AR
21 August 2012
Curlew - one of three seen at
Corballis estuary, Donabate (Photo by Andy Friel)
19 August 2012
Phoenix Park: 1 Buzzard spotted in the evening.CW
Buzzard at Phoenix Park (Photo by
Ciaran Walsh)
Bull Island: 1 Kingfisher at Causeway. Also 2 Common
Sandpipers at the river outlet and a Kestrel hunting
along the seafront.CM
Kingfisher at Bull Island
(Photo by Cian Merne)
18 August 2012
Howth cliff walk: 1 Wheatear, 3 Stonechats,
2 Kestrels.EK
Kestrel at Howth Head (Photo
by Edd Kealy)
16 August 2012
Drimnagh: female Sparrowhawk over Dolphin Road,
Drimnagh.AR
15 August 2012
Bull Island: A group of 8 Little Egrets feeding
and blowing about in the wind in the channel at Clontarf
Rd./Causeway today.DMacP
Little Egrets at Bull Island
Causeway (Photo by Dave MacPherson)
14 August 2012
Wheatear having it's
feathers ruffled by the "summer" wind at Bull Island
(Photo by Dave MacPherson)
13 August 2012
Raheny: Juvenile Cuckoo seen in St. Anne's
Park.GF
Juvenile Cuckoo at St.
Anne's Park Raheny (Photo by Ger Franck)
11 August 2012
Curlew at Rogerstown (north
hide) (Photo by Brian Carruthers)
Green Sandpiper at
Rogerstown (north hide) (Photo by Brian Carruthers)
10 August 2012
Castleknock Gaa Club: A Buzzard.AR
Bull Island: 2 juvenile Stonechats near the Royal
Dublin Golf Course. Along with many other types of birds, small
insectivorous birds regurgitate pellets (see photo below). In the
case of Stonechat, the pellet consists of the hard exoskeletons of
their prey.GF
Juvenile Stonechat at Bull
Island (Photo by Ger Franck)
6 August 2012
Goldfinch in Sillogue
Gardens (Photo by Jenny Ryan)
5 August 2012
Booterstown Reserve:
Common Sandpiper and
Stock Dove this morning.SH
Bull Island: 10 Swifts, 2 Willow Warblers and a Sedge
Warbler at Royal Dublin Golf Club. Plenty of House Martins
around the Club House where there is a breeding colony.GF
Willow Warbler at Bull
Island (Photo by Ger Franck)
Sedge Warbler at Bull Island (Photo by Ger Franck)
4 August 2012
M50/Red Cow exit: A Kestrel.AR
3 August 2012
Castleknock at Auburn Avenue: a female Sparrowhawk.AR
Greenshank at Rogerstown
(Photo by Brian Carruthers)
Whimbrel at Rogerstown (Photo by Brian Carruthers)
2 August 2012
Newland's Cross: 4 Buzzards, a Sparrowhawk & a
Badger.AR & JW
What do you call a tern in the
middle of two common terns? A Sandwich Tern!
Two Common Terns and a
Sandwich Tern at Sandycove (Photo by Dave MacPherson)
Mediterranean Gull at Sandycove (Photo by Dave MacPherson)
