The sixth Seatrack survey of the year takes place
this coming weekend Sat 5th/Sun 6th October with a start time of 08:35am.
Priority will be given to the Saturday so as to compliment other seawatching
surveys being undertaken by FAME partners from headlands along the
West coast of Europe also on that date.
Weather looks set to be best in the
South West this weekend, particularly on Saturday with SW bearing winds
forecast.
If you would like to take part in
upcoming Seatrack surveys then please get in touch with
Niall Keogh at seatrack@birdwatchireland.ie
Moderate to strong SE winds with heavy rain over
the past few days has created some ideal seawatching conditions along the East
coast. Triple figure counts of Manx Shearwaters have been
recorded from Dalkey (Dublin), Six Mile Point (Wicklow) & Greenore Point
(Wexford) with some local highlights including a Sooty Shearwater off
Dalkey (Stephen McAvoy) & 2 Balearic Shearwaters off
Greenore Point (Killian Mullarney) both on 1st October and a Sabine's
Gull feeding with rafting Kittiwakes off Kilcoole on 2nd October (Niall
T. Keogh). Large numbers of auks, particularly Razorbills, have also been
noted.
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| Razorbills in flight © Chris Proctor |
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