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Birdwatching week in Ireland

  • 15-08-2017 6:37pm
    #1
    gzoladz
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    If you could spend one week birding anywhere in Ireland (End of October)...where would you go?

    Planning that at the moment...the candidates:

    1. Baltimore (Cork), from where I could cover Sherkill and Cape Clear Islands
    2. Belmullet and Achil (Mayo)
    3. Dingle Peninsula (Kerry)

    I have ruled out Wexford (love it, but been there many times), Donegal (very likely awful weather) and Waterford (I have one week, so would rather go further as I can do Wateford in fewer dasys).

    Connemara was an option, but it does not seem to be too good for birding.

    Any other idea / suggestion?


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  • #2
    Capercaillie
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    gzoladz wrote: »
    If you could spend one week birding anywhere in Ireland (End of October)...where would you go?

    Planning that at the moment...the candidates:

    1. Baltimore (Cork), from where I could cover Sherkill and Cape Clear Islands
    2. Belmullet and Achil (Mayo)
    3. Dingle Peninsula (Kerry)

    I have ruled out Wexford (love it, but been there many times), Donegal (very likely awful weather) and Waterford (I have one week, so would rather go further as I can do Wateford in fewer dasys).

    Connemara was an option, but it does not seem to be too good for birding.

    Any other idea / suggestion?

    Whalewatching trips off Baltimore would be good (weather permitting). You could see Fin whale, mjnke whale, humpback whale, common dolphins, bottlenose dolphins. Birds could include great shearwater, cory's shearwater, sabine's gull, sooty shearwater.

    Belmullet would be better in summer, but at end of October there will be plenty of Barnacle geese. They graze my farm during winter. It's a great sight seeing them fly in a dawn (1,000+ birds). A couple of Twite as well.


  • #3
    gzoladz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,210 ✭✭✭gzoladz


    Capercaillie wrote: »
    Whalewatching trips off Baltimore would be good (weather permitting). You could see Fin whale, mjnke whale, humpback whale, common dolphins, bottlenose dolphins. Birds could include great shearwater, cory's shearwater, sabine's gull, sooty shearwater.

    Belmullet would be better in summer, but at end of October there will be plenty of Barnacle geese. They graze my farm during winter. It's a great sight seeing them fly in a dawn (1,000+ birds). A couple of Twite as well.

    Interesting, thanks a lot. Yes I had tought about whalewatching from there so Baltimore seems to have loads to offer.

    I have only ever whalewatched once in Argentina (Peninsula Valdés) many years ago, never in Ireland.


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