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[Peter Phillips]

A nice day out yesterday in Donegal which included a trip to Tory for the Corncrakes....

http://toryislandbirdblog.blogspot.ie/

 

[rdspalm]

Tory Trip 1st June

Rather late but here is the Derry trio's bird list for 1st June. Quite a rough sea with swells up to 10 ft. Highlight of the day was Great Shearwater & at least 6 Basking Shark. See attached bird list. It was nice to meet Dublin birder Mark Stewart.

Roger Murray, Theo Campbell, Richard Smith

Richard Smith

 

[Peter Phillips]

Rather late but here is the Derry trio's bird list for 1st June. Quite a rough sea with swells up to 10 ft. Highlight of the day was Great Shearwater & at least 6 Basking Shark. See attached bird list. It was nice to meet Dublin birder Mark Stewart.

Roger Murray, Theo Campbell, Richard Smith

Richard Smith

Thanks for that Richard

 

[rdspalm]

Not much in the way of recorded visits to Tory this year?
I hope to get over next week.
Looking forward to an autumn trip or two this year, never know what may turn up.

Richard

 

[Peter Phillips]

A few good days on Tory Island following some north easterlies. Trip report and some photos here.........

http://toryislandbirdblog.blogspot.ie/

 

[rdspalm]

Arranmore Magheroarty & Blanket Nook

Southerly winds made our trip to Arranmore Island a bit of a damp squib. Overcast conditions with sea mist and low cloud spoiled birding. No sign of the Snowy Owl & no seabirds other than a few Gannets & gulls.

Walked the Burtonport Railway track footpath which offers excellent bird habitat. Must return next spring.

Sunday 22nd
Stopped at Bloody Foreland to check for anything passing. Wrong wind direction, still strong southerlies. Moved on to Magheroarty. It was good with many gulls feeding also Sanderling, Turnstone, & Oystercatcher.

New Lake devoid of duck, a few Mute Swan. On to Blanket Nook. An entirely different day, sunshine & 21c.

2 Bairds Sandpiper
3 Curlew Sandpiper
1 White Front Goose

Large flocks of Golden Plover & Lapwing.
Greylag Geese, 2 Whooper Swans
Bar Tailed Godwit, Black Tailed Godwit, Gt Crested Grebe, Little Grebe, Teal, Mallard.

The call at Blanket Nook (on our doorstep) turned a trying weekend into a good one.

Richard Smith & Theo Campbell

 

[Peter Phillips]

Arranmore 4th October

Gerard Murray, Chris Imgram and I met Robert Vaughan http://robertvaug.blogspot.ie/ on Arranmore on friday for a days birding. We had a reasonable day with 2 Yellow browed Warblers 2 Snow Buntings and a very showy Wryneck the best birds.

Some photos and a trip report here;

http://toryislandbirdblog.blogspot.ie/

 

[Peter Phillips]

Tory Island 14th/15th october

Gerard Murray and I spent a couple of productive days on tory on monday and tuesday. A trip report and some excellent photos of the candidate Eastern Yellow Wagtail M.t.tschutschensis taken by Gerard can be seen here;

http://toryislandbirdblog.blogspot.ie/

 

[Irish Kite]

Gerard Murray, Chris Imgram and I met Robert Vaughan http://robertvaug.blogspot.ie/ on Arranmore on friday for a days birding. We had a reasonable day with 2 Yellow browed Warblers 2 Snow Buntings and a very showy Wryneck the best birds.

Some photos and a trip report here;

http://toryislandbirdblog.blogspot.ie/

Good blog that - must take a trip up to Tory some time

 

[Peter Phillips]

2013 Tory Island Bird Report

Its now available... just email me at [email protected]. Its 50MB in size. I cant quite figure out why!!but its downloadable from google drive. There will also be a hard copy available to purchase in the coming weeks. I will let you know the details....

 

[Peter Phillips]

2011 Tory Island Bird Report

The printed edition of the 2011 Tory Island Bird Report is available to order now. It was previously only available as a download. Chris Ingram has kindly arranged to get the report printed. All proceeds from the sale of the report will go to charity.



Anyone who is interested in buying a copy should contact Chris at [email protected]

 

[rdspalm]

Tory Island Autumn 2014

Looks to have been quite a good Autumn on Tory so far. I'd appreciate if anyone visiting would post their sightings or a link to other reports here.
Many thanks,

Richard

 

[Peter Phillips]

Looks to have been quite a good Autumn on Tory so far. I'd appreciate if anyone visiting would post their sightings or a link to other reports here.
Many thanks,

Richard

Hi Richard. I have not been on here in a while most sightings from Tory are reported on the tory blog. Except I thing for a juvenile Iceland Gull found by the Kelly's in October.
http://toryislandbirdblog.blogspot.ie/

 

[Peter Phillips]

2014 Tory Bird Report

Please find the online version attached. The printed version should be available early in March and will contain more photos and hopefully an article about the Eastern Yellow Wagtail

 

[rdspalm]

Great report as ever Peter. Keep up the good work.

Richard