Welcome indeed - the more people watching dundalk bay the better - on the last iweb count in December, with limited hours of daylight and not a great tidal situation, i tried to see how many species i could get in a single day (6 hours) - the result is below - a total of 77 species. I believe that it should be fairly easy to hit 100 species on a good day September/October. For 2005, in terms of raritities, the best were probably the white-rumped and pectoral sandpipers, the little auk, the gull-billed tern and the ring necked duck, black redstart - there are probably others...(past rarities have included American Bittern, Little Bittern, Night Heron, Blue-winged Teal, Green-winged Teal, King Eider, Gyr Falcon, Baird's Sandpiper, Broad-billed Sandpiper, Dowitcher sp., Lesser Yellowlegs, Wilson's Phalarope, Laughing Gull, Franklin's Gull, Forster's Tern, White-winged Black Tern, Pallid Swift, Rufous-tailed Rock Thrush, Radde's Warbler, Hobby, Black-throat Diver etc etc)
Bar-tailed Godwit
Black Guillemot
Blackbird
Black-headed Gull
Black-tailed Godwit
Blue Tit
Buzzard
Coal Tit
Collared Dove
Common Gull
Common Scoter
Coot
Cormorant
Curlew
Curlew sandpiper
Dipper
Dunlin
Dunnock
Firecrest
Golden Plover
Goldeneye
Goldfinch
Great Black-backed Gull
Great Crested Grebe
Great Northern Diver
Great Tit
Greenfinch
Greenshank
Grey Heron
Grey Plover
Guillemot
Herring Gull
Hooded Crow
House Sparrow
Jackdaw
Kestrel
Kingfisher
Knot
Lapwing
Less Black-backed Gull
Light-bellied Brent Goose
Linnet
Little Egret
Little Grebe
Magpie
Mallard
Meadow Pipit
Merlin
Mistle thrush
Moorhen
Mute Swan
Oystercatcher
Pied Wagtail
Pintail
Red-breasted Merganser
Redshank
Red-throated Diver
Reed Bunting
Ringed Plover
Rock Pipit
Rook
Sanderling
Scaup
Shag
Shag
Shelduck
Shoveler
Song thrush
Starling
Stonechat
Teal
Tree sparrow
Turnstone
Whooper Swan
Wigeon
Wood pigeon
Wren