Our summer visitors 2022

OldRio

Well it's that time of year again. I checked my records for 2020 and 2021. Both years by this date I'd recorded both swallows and the Cuckoo here in Leitrim.

Nothing yet.

New Home

I heard my first swallows on the 28th of March. No cuckoos whatsoever, I'm afraid.

Birdnuts

Between my place in North Mayo and my folks back in North Kildare I have clocked in temporal order since Early March Wheater, Sandwich Tern,Chiffchaff, Sand Martin and Blackcap

getoutadodge

yesterday i heard my first cuckoo...in rialto..believe it or not

Birdnuts

Got Swallow and House Martin in Kildare yesterday

Birdnuts

An early Grasshopper Warbler added to the list yesterday

fits

Saw first swallow yesterday in Carlow.

Bsal

Saw my first two Swallows today at Dublin airport.

Swallows in NW Donegal over the weekend.

whodafunk

Swallow in Kilkenny 17/04 and Dublin 18/04

fryup

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118931023#Comment_118931023

in Rialto?? are you sure it wasn't a homing pigeon?

OldRio

Heard my first Grasshopper Warbler this morning beside the loch.

It just makes you smile.

DBB

First cuckoo for me yesterday afternoon (April 26th) on the bogs northeast of Kinnegad, a spot that has turned up my first cuckoo-of-the-year more than once!

OldRio

First cuckoo and swallow yesterday. Co. Leitrim.

Later than average.

Birdnuts

Anyone else notice a big increase in Whitethroats this year?? Seem to be everywhere in any suitable habitat anywhere I've been in the country this past month on 2 mini breaks. Good few Swifts about too but alot less Swallows

OldRio

Around these parts, South Leitrim, the place is full of swallows. The most we've seen in a number of years.

pawrick

Swallows nesting in my shed again this year, thats every year over the past 7 I've lived here. Only one pair this year. Hearing lots of bird sounds from the lake in the nearby field but havent a clue what I'm hearing, we get a lot of birds from Lough Ree spending the nights there and luckily there is a decent waterways guy locally who takes the odd pitcture to post on his fb.

fryup

Anyone watching Springwatch on bbc2??

They featured the amazing Nightjar yesterday, do we ever get it in Ireland?😶

Bsal

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119208749#Comment_119208749

I've been watching, it's such a beautiful bird, incredible plumage and eyes.

Birdnuts

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119208749#Comment_119208749

Very scarce now - probably only a handfull of pairs breed here every year

fryup

now? i never knew we had them in the first place

whereabouts are they - east coast?

DBB

I heard one calling just after midnight one night a good few weeks ago... was it late April/early May? Rural part of north Offaly. Not unlike the sound a grasshopper makes, but not the same either!

Birdnuts

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119213382#Comment_119213382

Very random in their appearance - Forth Mtn in Wexford was the only recent regular location. Their nocturnal habits make them very hard to detect.

Bsal

Lot's of swallows passing through my area in Swords the past few days. Always sad to see them go.

New Home

They left my neck of the woods last weekend. 😞

New Home

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119598177#Comment_119598177

But a few of the house martins are still around!

pawrick

Still hanging around in my area but definitely seeing them gather readying to set off. I had two broods reared this summer in my shed again.

x567

Surprising number of swallows still around east Clare over the last few days. Quite a few seen this evening. Some that I’ve seen at closer quarters have quite immature plumages…

(Sorry, should be in the 2023 thread)