Great Northern Diver c.16
Common Scoter c.300
Stejneger's Scoter 1 adult drake ex.
Black Guillemot 1
Cromone, Co. Kerry
Pale-bellied Brent Geese c.20
Pale-bellied Brent Geese at Cromane (JFC)
Glenbeigh, Co. Kerry
Dipper 1 ex. nest building
Dipper at Glenbeigh (JFC)
5km west of Rossbeigh, Co. Kerry
Great Northern Diver 76 ex.
Common Scoter c.200
Flock of Great Northern Divers just west of Rossbeigh
St. Finian's Bay
Chough 4
St. Finian's Bay
Chough at St. Finian's Bay (JFC)
Ballinskelligs Bay
Great Northern Diver 7
Long-tailed Duck 4 drakes
Scaup 4
Common Scoter c.300
Scandinavian Herring Gull 1 2w
Wheatear 2 nearby mountain pass
Great Northern Diver at Ballinskelligs Bay
Presumed second-winter Scandinavian Herring Gull at Ballinskelligs Bay
Considering the location, this brute of a second-winter Herring Gull with a Glaucous Gull-like bicoloured bill, deserved careful scrutiny. Whilst its staring pale eye, dark belly, primarily dark tertials, dark hindneck and upper mantle and very dark underwing coverts could all be construed as smithsonianus characters, the white bases to its tail feathers, barred undertail-coverts and barred scapulars all count against such an identification rendering it much more likely a second-winter Scandinavian Herring Gull L.a. argentatus.
Scenery around the Ring of Kerry
