I managed a trip to the Loop today 3rd January with very little about due to the wet day and rough weather prior to my visit. There were up to 500 Fieldfares and 350 Redwings throughout the headland and around the light. One large female Peregrine and a Kestrel were hunting around the lighthouse gardens where a Snipe, 20 Rock Pipits and two Stonechats were evading capture. Five Razorbills, 18 Kittiwake and 25 Gannet were feeding off the tip with Fulmars and Common Gulls. Over 100 Rock Doves were feeding in a farmyard just east of Crotty's Farm at Cavan Cross.
In Kilbaha there were 8 Chaffinch and two Collared Doves in the gardens with three Great Northern Divers feeding in the harbour.
Ross Bay had a further two Great Northern Divers, one Greenshank, 25 Turnstone and 60 Oystercatchers. No birds passed the Bridges of Ross.
Cloghaun Lough water levels were very high and waders were pushed up on the land with two Greenshank feeding the flooded back end of the lough along with 35 Curlew, 20 Ringed Plover, 40 Turnstone, 50 Oystercatchers, 6 Snipe, 40 Teal and two Eurasian Wigeon.
(JNM)
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