Waterford Birds

10/2 1514: WATER PIPIT at Ballinclamper, Clonea Bay (FO’C)

Distant crops of very actively feeding Firecrest at Ballyquin today

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8/2 1200: male FIRECREST at Ballyquin, near Ardmore (PMW)

25/1: 4 RING-NECKED DUCKS (2 adult males & 2 females) at Knockaderry Reservoir today (DW) - a new record-count for a Co Waterford location

1/1/2025: 6 CATTLE EGRETS at Gortahilly, near Ballymacaw (JD); DUSKY WARBLER at Anne Valley (JPM); 3 RING-NECKED DUCKS & Long-tailed Duck at Knockaderry Res (MC); RING OUZEL at Mahon Falls (DW); SPOTTED SANDPIPER at Ballynagaul & 2 Slavonian Grebes off Ballinacourty Pier (DW)

26/12 1055: CETTI’S WARBLER heard singing at Ballinlough, near Kill (DW) - new (3rd) location for the species in Co Waterford

25/12: 2 unseasonal male Ring Ouzels (apparently 1st-winter & adult) at Mahon Falls, Comeragh Mountains this morning (DW)

22/12 1250: 4 CATTLE EGRETS at Kilmacleague, Tramore Backstrand (DW)

14/12: Dusky Warbler still present at Anne Valley & Spotted Sandpiper at Ballynagaul, Dungarvan (SG)

12/12: DUSKY WARBLER still present at Anne Valley (JDM), Marsh Harrier at Blackwater Valley (ADM) & Slavonian Grebe off pitch & putt course, Dungarvan (TM)

9/12 1014: DUSKY WARBLER still at Dunhill end of Anne Valley (SM TB)

7/12 1304: DUSKY WARBLER still showing at Anne Valley, same area (just below N carpark) as yesterday (MC)

6/12 1017: DUSKY WARBLER still showing well along Anne Valley (MC), further N towards Dunhill village & c.250 S of car park at N end of Anne Valley walk

4/12 1009: DUSKY WARBLER at Anne Valley, feeding & calling frequently along stream 1.2 km upstream from Dunhill Castle (DS) - 2nd ever Co Waterford record (same finder as the Brownstown Head October 2024 bird!)

2/12 1507: SPOTTED SANDPIPER again at Ballynagaul, Dungarvan (GK)

22/11: YELLOW-BROWED WARBLER at Ardmore, in willows near W end of cliff walk (AA); Scaup & CATTLE EGRET at Lisselan, Tramore Backstrand (MC); male GOOSANDER at Ballyneety, Dungarvan (AA)

21/11 0919: 3 RING-NECKED DUCKS (male, female & 1st-w male) at Knockaderry Reservoir this morning (MC)

A hugely significant publication from the great RJ Ussher in the Irish Naturalist of 1897: Great Auk bones in kitchen middens at Tramore Sandhills - barely 2 km (as the auk can’t fly!) from the 1834 live capture of the species between Brownstown Head & Ballymacaw, Co Waterford

16/11 1405: female/1st-winter-type MARSH HARRIER at Clashmore Broads, Blackwater Valley (MC)

15/11 1026: Spotted Sandpiper again inside Ballynagaul Pier, Dungarvan (CF)

14/11 1126: Spotted Sandpiper still at Ballynagaul Pier, Dungarvan (FO’C)

correction: 6th record

13/11: juvenile SPOTTED SANDPIPER at Ballynagaul Pier, Dungarvan this morning (RT) - 7th Co Waterford record

Red-breasted Flycatcher

Red-breasted Flycatcher

Pallas’s Warbler

Pallas’s Warbler

9/11: a few shots of the lingering Red-breasted Flycatcher & Pallas’s Warbler on Helvick Head today (PMW)

Pallas's Warbler - a tiny bird perched in a Sycamore tree showing its characteristic wing bars and crown stripes.

The tiny Pallas's Warbler at Helvick Head, Co. Waterford today. #rare #birds #BirdsSeenIn2025 @watbirds.bsky.social #IrishBirding

8/11: Red-breasted Flycatcher & Firecrest ringed today along with 3 Blackcaps & 5 Chiffchaffs (AA)

8/11 1314: YELLOW-BROWED WARBLER & Siberian Chiffchaff, Ardmore (AO’B)

8/11 1124: YELLOW-BROWED WARBLER (new), Red-breasted Flycatcher, Firecrest, Black Redstart & Swallow on Brownstown this morning (DW MC PA AA)

8/11 0950: Pallas’s Warbler still at Helvick (DO’S GK TK AK JAP), also the Red-breasted Flycatcher (CF)