27th/28th September

From Irish Birding..

Joe Adamson, Chris Ingram,Ralph Sheppard, Theo Campbell, Roger Murray and Richard Smith were all on Tory this weekend past.

Best bird was an American Golden Plover on saturday. The fourth record in four years.

Sunday reports include

3 Chiffchaff
8 Sooty Shearwater
1 Jack Snipe
2 Whooper Swan
1 Kestrel
4 Red-throated Diver

Chris Ingram 22/09/2014

I received a text from Chris who was on Tory today..

Hi Peter,

I did a short trip again today which doesn't give much time.  There was a female Blackbird and a Robin in Anton's east but didn't see the Barred there he had seen earlier. Saw a Blackcap and another Robin around the east where there are c.20 Tree Sparrows and the flock of Linnet and
a  Blackcap was in Anton's west garden.  He also had his first Redwing and a Goldcrest yesterday.

Chris
 
He also had an adult Long tailed Skua from the ferry..

Chris Ingram

Chris sent me some complete lists from his recent trips...

Peter,

Here are my sightings for 14th and 17th/18th September:

14th September:

Buzzard  1
Kestrel  1 male
Corncrake  1
Water Rail  1
Cuckoo  1 singing briefly
White Wagtail  1
Robin  2/3
Barred Warbler  1
Willow Warbler  c.5
Linnet  c.30
Reed Bunting  2

17th/18th September:

Heron  2
Whooper Swan  2
Wigeon  11 on 17th
Teal  2 on 17th west,  10 on 18th  east
Buzzard  1
Kestrel  1 on 17th,  2 (m+f) on 18th
Golden Plover  2
Collared Dove  1 on 18th
Song Thrush  3+ incl. young birds in Anton's east garden
Mistle Thrush  both days
Robin  c.5
White Wagtail  1/2 both days
Yellow Wagtail  1 on 17th West Town
Red-breasted Flycatcher  1 on 18th Anton's east
Dunnock  1 in Anton's east
Willow Warbler  c.3
Chiffchaff  c.2
Meadow Pipit  c.200 in west on 18th
Linnet  20/30 around island
Reed Bunting  2 in west

Regards  Chris


 

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________________________________ From: chrisingram43@hotmail.com To: pmpphillips@gmail.com Subject: Tory Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2014 20:09:03 +0100 Hi Peter, Here are my sightings for 14th and 17th/18th September: 14th September: Bu...

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________________________________ From: chrisingram43@hotmail.com To: sighting@eircom.net Subject: Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2014 19:18:55 +0100 Hi Peter, I did a short trip again today which doesn't give much time. There was a female B...

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Thanks Chris will update the blog later with all your recent sightings

Peter

Jim Dowdall 20/09/2014

News via Irish Birding and twitter from yesterday...

2 Barred Warblers ( 1 in west town and 1 in fields below East Town)
1 Whitethroat

Jim Dowdall 19th September

News via twitter and Irish Birding

A good fall of birds by any standard...

2 Red breasted Flycatchers (One bird at the east end, one found dead in West Town).
Juvenile Little Stint
1 Barred Warbler (east end)
1 Wryneck (east end)
1 Redstart (east end)
50+ Wheatear
5 Willow Warbler
3 Chiffchaff
1 Goldcrest

I have some photos from Derek Charles and  Anton Meenan from the last couple of weeks and will try to upload them later...

Claire Anne Meenan

Juvenile Red-breasted Flycatcher

Claire sent this photo of today's Red breasted Flycatcher



Thank Claire

13/14Th September

I had emails from Derek Charles and Chris Ingram who were on Tory this weekend

Hi Peter
A few of my and Majellas sightings from the weekend.

13th september
From Ferry
1 Arctic Skua
1 Pomarine Skua

1 juv Little Stint the lake
1 juv Little Stint west beach found by Derek Brennan
1 juv Knot the lake
40 Wheatear
1 Juvenile Red Backed Shrike, just seen twice near club / Kings House
2 Chiffchaff
2 Willow Warbler
Hybrid Black Duck
2 Whooper Swan
1 Pochard the Lake
2 Buzzard

14th September
5 juvenile Lesser Black Backed Gulls in the harbour first thing all in full juvenile plumage
23 Knot the Lake

1 Juvenile Cuckoo, back of Priests House
1 Juvenile Barred Warbler Magic Bush
1 Gadwall the lake
Hybrid Black Duck
1 juvenile Tufted Duck
2 Sooty Shear from Ferry
 

Chris Ingram 17/18th September

Chris sent me a text me to say he found a Red breasted Flycatcher in Antons east end patch today.

Yesterday Chris had;

1 Yellow Wagtail
1 White Wagtail
3 Willow Warblers
1 Mistle Thrush
1 Cuckoo( per Anton)

No ferry to the island this weekend on All Ireland Sunday as Donegal are playing.

Derek Charles

I had an email from derek who was on Tory this weekend

 Hi Peter
a few from the weekend, very few if any migrants!

Juvenile Pec Sand Lake
3 juvenile Tufted Duck
2 Whooper Swans
6 Dunlin
5 Golden Plover
1 Bonxie over island
4 Willow Warbler.
4 Chiffchaff
1 Buzzard
1 Kestrel
1 Peregrine
4 Chough
15 Wheatear
1 Water Rail at the Magic Bush
14 Teal
2 Gadwall
and 1 female Black Duck hybrid and i suspect there was another  Black Duck hybrid as well
1 Black Tailed Godwit
2 Skylark
1 Swan Goose!!
2 Canada Goose in a pen!! hope they dont escape!! 

Hope you get out soon, we had lovely weather!

6th september

From twitter...

1 Pectoral Samdpiper West Lake
1 Great Skua
5 White Wagtails

(D.Charles, M. Callaghan,  J Dowdall, V Cashera )

Antony Mcgeehan 5th September

TORY BIRD LIST 5 SEPTEMBER 2014

Light north wind, mostly overcast.

PIED FLYCATCHER 1 (Anton’s brother’s garden, just east of y-junction, east of West Town).

WILLOW WARBLER 2
CHIFFCHAFF 1 (moulting juvenile)
GOLDCREST 1
CORNCRAKE 1
REED BUNTING 6
SKYLARK 1
STARLING 260
WHEATEAR 21
PIED WAGTAIL 7
WHITE WAGTAIL 2
ROCK DOVE/FERAL PIGEON 42
TREE SPARROW 32
LINNET 9
SONG THRUSH 5
MEADOW PIPIT 350 minimum
ROCK PIPIT 50 minimum
SWALLOW 15
WREN 10
[Zero Robins, Stonechats, Dunnock, Blackbird]
SPARROWHAWK I juvenile female
KESTREL 1 juvenile
PEREGRINE adult and juvenile
GREY HERON 1adult (two f-w at sea between Tory and Inishbofin)
CHOUGH 4
RAVEN 5
HOODED CROW 10
TEAL 11
MALLARD 12
WIGEON 15
GADWALL 2
MUTE SWAN 2
WHOOPER SWAN 2
SNIPE 1 on island but 55 over-head in flock
RINGED PLOVER 40
TURNSTONE 80
DUNLIN 7
WHIMBREL 1
CURLEW 6
REDSHANK 7
LAPWING 10
OYSTERCATCHER 36
BLACK-TAILED GODWIT 1
From boat: SOOTY SHEARWATER 3, MANX 15, BONXIE 3, ARCTIC SKUA 2.

Pied Flycatcher by Antony Mcgeehan

Anton's Corncrake photos

Some photos from this spring...

from this year