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March 2010
 
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Thurs 11 Mar: 
WHITING BAY:  Wheatear & Black Redstart.
 
Sun 7 Mar: 
DUNGARVAN:  Sandwich Tern off Ballynagaul pier - first of the year.
BRICKEY CANAL (nr Dungarvan):  Green Sandpiper & 2 Kingfishers.
BLACKWATER VALLEY:  Male Green-winged Teal at Camphire.
 
Sat 6 Mar: 
DUNGARVAN: Adult Mediterranean Gull at Barnawee, Whimbrel at Knockanpower Lower, 2 Gadwall at Killongford, BLACK BRANT at the Cunnigar, and Kingfishers at Barnawee & behind Nissan garagae on Youghal Road.
WHITING BAY:   Male Wheatear & 18 Sanderling.
 
Fri 5 Mar: 
WHITING BAY:  Wheatear - first of the year.
Nr KILMACTHOMAS: 10-15,000 Starlings at dusk.
 
Thurs 4 Mar: 
DUNGARVAN:  Adult Ring-billed Gull at Ballynagaul.
BRICKEY RIVER (nr Dungarvan):  Green Sandpiper.
 
Tues 2 Mar: 
Nr DUNGARVAN:  2 Buzzards east, high overhead.
Nr BUNMAHON:  Male Grey Partridge (ringed bird), presumably escaped or released.
 
Mon 1 Mar: 
DUNGARVAN:  Kingfisher at Barnawee.
RAM HEAD:  3 Fin Whales & 20 Common Dolphins.

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Recent 'bird of the day' from www.bto.org/birdatlas (see also earlier dates):

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Preliminary Nov-Feb 2007-10 distribution @ 08/03/2010

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Little Grebe, Tramore boating lake, 7 March 2010 © N McCarthy

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Kingfisher, Brickey canal, 7 March 2010 © D Clarke

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Snipe, Brickey canal, 7 March 2010 © D Clarke

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Wheatear, male, Whiting Bay, 6 March 2010 © D Clarke

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Black Brant, adult, the Cunnigar, 6 March 2010 © M Cowming

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Kingfisher, Dungarvan, 28 Feb 2010 © D Clarke

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Blackcap, male, Dungarvan, 28 Feb 2010 © D Clarke

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Whooper Swans, Blackwater at Dromana, 21 Feb 2010 © D Clarke

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Green Sandpiper, Blackwater valley, 21 Feb 2010 © D Clarke

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Greylag Geese, including neck-band "NBX", Coolfin, 19 Feb 2009 © D Clarke

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Mediterranean Gull, 1st-winter, Tramore Boating Lake, 14 Feb 2009 © M Cowming

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Smew, female or imm, Tramore Boating Lake, 14 Feb 2009 © M Cowming

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Common Dolphin, melanic individual, Ram Head, 1 Feb 2010 © A Malcolm

Note: Sightings listed here are reports, not necessarily authenticated records.  * = species for which the Irish Rare Birds Committee currently requires substantiating descriptions or photographs.  Records are regularly updated, and older records added or amended where necessary .  Many thanks to observers who provided records above - any further records (current or older) would be appreciated.  
 
Please email any sightings, or text details of scarcer species to 0861701599.

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