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Bird records 2003

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Selected Waterford bird records 2003
 
Bird records listed below, mostly relating to scarce migrants, have been submitted to the Irish Bird Report.  Any further records from 2003 or other years would be welcome.  Latest update 26 July 2005.
 
Species Count Age/sex Location Date Last date Comment
Little Bittern 1 Clonea 24-May-2003 exhausted, taken into care, died next morning
Little Egret 4 Belle Lake 23-Aug-2003 flew S
" 49 Tramore Backstrand 17-Aug-2003 high count
" 1 Annestown Bog 29-Mar-2003
" 1 Annestown Bog 5-May-2003
" 1 Clonea Strand 27-Oct-2003
" 1 Ballinard (Ballynacourty Point) 16-Nov-2003
" 14 Dungarvan 11-Oct-2003
" 1 Whiting Bay 2-May-2003
" 2 Goat Island, nr Whiting Bay 2-Nov-2003
Great White Egret 1 Dungarvan 18-Jan-2003 not submitted IRBC?
'Black Brant' 1 Dungarvan 1-Jan-2003 19-Jan-2003 Branta bernicla nigricans
'Dark-bellied' Brent Goose 1 Dungarvan 1-Jan-2003
Eider 1 1st-w m Clonea 19-Jan-2003 14-Feb-2003
Long-tailed Duck 1 Tramore Backstrand 26-Jan-2003
Surf Scoter 2 Ballyvooney Cove 5-Dec-2003 sex breakdown by date unclear
" 1 Ballyvooney Cove 8-Dec-2003
" 2 Ballyvooney Cove 18-Dec-2003
" 1 male Ballyvooney Cove 27-Dec-2003
" 2 Ballyvooney Cove 29-Dec-2003
" 1 male Ballyvooney Cove 30-Dec-2003
Goosander 1 female Dungarvan: Ballyneety 14-Jan-2003
" 2 females Dungarvan: Ballyneety 25-Jan-2003
" 1 female Dungarvan 13-Mar-2003
" 1 sex? Dungarvan: Ballyneety 18-Dec-2003
" 1 male Dungarvan: Ballyneety 22-Dec-2003
" 1 sex? Dungarvan: Ballyneety 23-Dec-2003
" 1 sex? Dungarvan 29-Dec-2003
Buzzard 3 nr Tramore Backstrand [precise site conf.] 1-Feb-2003
" 2 nr Tramore Backstrand [precise site conf.] 22-Feb-2003 1-Mar-2003
" 1 Piltown Cross, near Clashmore late-Sep-03
Little Stint 1 Dungarvan: Ballyneety 3-Oct-2003 14-Oct-2003 originally id'd as Semipalmated Sandpiper
" 1 Clonea Strand 16-Nov-2003 November record
Curlew Sandpiper 1 Clonea Strand 3-Sep-2003 at Ballinclamper
Whimbrel 1 Clonea Strand 19-Jan-2003 14-Feb-2003 winter record
" 615 Clonea Strand 27-Apr-2003 high count
" 69 Dungarvan: Kilminnin 27-Apr-2003
" 28 Ardmore Strand 2-May-2003
" 45 Clonea Strand 2-May-2003