January 2007 Sightings
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| December 2006 <<< |
January 2007
| 25th January 2007 Strandhill |
720+ Common Scoter off Strandhill Beach (W. Woodrow) |
| 21st January 2007 Rahaberna, N. of Sligo Town |
Female Blackcap in garden at Grange (D. Cotton) |
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20th January 2007 Yellow Strand, Ballyconnell |
First year Iceland gull on beach (D. Cotton) |
| 14th January 2007 Lissadell |
19 Shoveler (N. Raftery) |
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14th January 2007 Gibraltar Point |
1st winter Iceland Gull (M.Casey) |
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12th January 2007 Grange |
Male Blackcap in garden at Grange (per D. Cotton) |
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9th January 2007 Gibraltar Point |
111 Shelduck during a storm, a very high count. (S. Feeney) |
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| Images © Mícheál Casey 2007 | |
| 7th January 2007: This Woodcock was mist-netted and ringed near Tubbercurry. Ireland's small breeding population of Woodcock is supplemented in winter by an influx of continental birds, moving south and west from Scandinavia and northern Europe. The number of continental migrants varies from year to year depending mainly on weather. Because this species is legally hunted throughout Europe, there is a relatively high chance of this ring being recovered, thus shedding further light on the origins of Sligo's wintering Woodcock. |
| 7th January 2007 Ballyconnell Strand |
Female Black Redstart on the beach. (D. Cotton) |
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6th January 2007 Rahaberna, Sligo town |
1 male Blackcap feeding on Cotoneaster berries (D. Cotton) |