October 2005 Sightings
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| Images © Chris Benson 2005 | ||
| Ringing in Sligo and Galway in October turned up two species that are quite scarce in the west of Ireland. The Garden Warbler in the upper photo was trapped and ringed in a bog near Tuam, while the male (right) and female (left) Bramblings in the lower photos were ringed near Tubbercurry, Co. Sligo | ||
1 Gadwall (adult male)
1 Bar-tailed Godwit
4 Blacktailed Godwits
31.10.05 Cartron Inner Bay
3 Black-tailed Godwits
30.10.05 Cartron Marsh
1 Gadwall (adult male)
30.10.05 Cartron Inner Bay
2 Black-tailed Godwits
1 Mediterranean Gull
This adult winter Med Gull is most likely a different individual to the one seen earlier this month. A total of three have now been seen this month.
29.10.05 Lough Gara
10 Whooper Swans
10 Goldeneyes
29.10.05 Strandhill
1 Grey Plover
100 Golden Plovers
7 Greenshank
Seen from Killnaspurg Point.
27.10.05 Lissadell
400 Barnacle Geese
27.10.05 Cartron Marsh
1 Gadwall
3 Black-tailed Godwits
27.10.05 Cartron Inner Bay
3 Black-tailed Godwits
1 Ring-billed Gull
26.10.05 IT Sligo
5 Whooper Swans
11 Redwings
A good passage of autumn migrants.
24.10.05 IT Sligo
14 Whooper Swans
70 Oystercatchers
The Swans were seen flying south over the IT.
23.10.05 Cartron Inner Bay
3 Blacktailed Godwits
4 Redpolls
23.10.05 Cartron Marsh
1 Common Sandpiper
A late migrant.
23.10.05 IT Sligo
2 Redpolls
22.10.05 Cartron Marsh
1 Great Crested Grebe
1 Ring-billed Gull
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| Image © Mícheál Casey 2005 | |
| 21st October 2005: Female Scaup (centre foreground) on front lake, at Bunduff, Mullaghmore |
21.10.05 Mullaghmore
1 Great Northern Diver
45 Whooper Swans
1 Scaup (female)
20.10.05 Cartron Marsh
1 Gadwall (male)
20.10.05 Cartron Inner Bay
1 Great Crested Grebe
2 Goldeneyes
1 Greenshank
4 Black-tailed Godwits
1 Guillemot
Both the Grebe and the Guillemot are unusual in this part of Sligo Harbour.
19.10.05 Mullaghmore
2 Pinkfooted Geese
1 Scaup
Both early sightings. The Geese may possibly be the same ones seen earlier this year.
18.10.05 Strandhill Airport
20 Crossbills
The birds were seen flying and calling over the conifer plantation between the village and the airport (17.10.05).
18.10.05 Inishmurray
1 Lapland Bunting
2 Snow Buntings
Lapland Buntings are recorded annually in County Donegal, but there have been very few records in County Sligo.
13.10.05 Cartron Marsh
1 Whooper Swan
3 Black-tailed Godwits
1 Ring-billed Gull (third year)
The Whooper Swan was seen flying low over Sligo Town.
13.10.05 Cartron Inner Bay
3 Black-tailed Godwits
1 Mediterranean Gull
An adult winter Mediterranean Gull was seen feeding with Blackheaded Gulls at the Cartron sewage outflows. This represents the third "Med" Gull this year and the second this month.
13.10.05 Truskmore
30 Whooper Swans
Seen flying south at an altitude of around 1,000 metres.
12.10.05 Rosses Point
2 Redthroated Divers
2 Great Northern Divers (summer plumaged)
ca. 150 Eiders
ca. 300 Common Scoters
12.10.05 Cartron Marsh
2 Black-tailed Godwits
12.10.05 Cartron Inner Bay
2 Black-tailed Godwits
42 Turnstones
1 Redpoll
A high count of Turnstones for the site. As the birds were roosting, this total probably represents the number of Turnstones currently present in Sligo Harbour.
10.10.05 Mullaghmore
1 Redthroated Diver
7 Whooper Swans
08.10.05 Tuam, Co. Galway
1 Garden Warbler
Caught during a ringing session.
06.10.05 Westport Quay, Co. Mayo
10 Spoonbills
Two ringed individuals with the flock.
06.10.05 Cartron Marsh
25 Brent Geese
6 Blacktailed Godwits
1 Bartailed Godwit
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| Image © Mícheál Casey 2005 | |
| 4th October 2005: First winter Mediterranean Gull, Fish Quay, Sligo |
04.10.05 Silver Swan Bay
1 Mediterranean Gull (first winter)
The second Mediterranean Gull seen in County Sligo this year.
03.10.05 IT Sligo
4 Redpolls
02.10.05 Cartron Marsh
4 Whooper Swans
1 Gadwall (adult male)
5 Black-tailed Godwits
Three adult and one juvenile Whooper Swan were seen resting on mudflats between Gibraltar Point and Cartron Marsh.