Time: 0730-1905
Weather: F3 N (am), F3 NW (pm), dry, sunny & good visibility.
Observers: Niall T. Keogh, Neal Warnock, Des Higgins, Peter Gluth, Peter
Colston, Sharon Hogan, Andy Marshall, Victor Caschera, Jimmy Dowdall, John
Power, Dave Fox, Paul Keating, John N. Murphy, Finbarr MacGabhann, BirdWatch
Ireland Clare Branch et al.
Balearic
Shearwater: 2
Sooty
Shearwater: 6
Manx
Shearwater: 1200 East in 30 mins (am) & 485 West in 4.5 hrs (pm)
Arctic Skua: 6
Sandwich Tern: 1
Arctic Tern: 29
Black Guillemot: 1
Chough: 2 around the watch point
Ocean Sunfish: 1
Minke Whale: 1
Unidentified Whale sp: 1
Common Dolphin: 3
A short but busy passage of distant
Manx Shearwaters going the ‘wrong’ way early in the morning probably accounted
for most of the birds which drifted back the ‘right’ way throughout the
afternoon. Both Balearics were typical in that they were on their own &
quite close in, one of which put on a good show for the participants of the BirdWatch Ireland Clare Branch outing.
The most tantalising sighting of the day related to a series of large, distant splashes
from a breaching whale which was also seen to produce a blow on one occasion, behaviour
suggestive of Humpback more than anything else but not confirmed unfortunately.
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