9/11: a few shots of the lingering Red-breasted Flycatcher & Pallas’s Warbler on Helvick Head today (PMW)

The tiny Pallas's Warbler at Helvick Head, Co. Waterford today. #rare #birds #BirdsSeenIn2025 @watbirds.bsky.social #IrishBirding

8/11: Red-breasted Flycatcher & Firecrest ringed today along with 3 Blackcaps & 5 Chiffchaffs (AA)

8/11 1314: YELLOW-BROWED WARBLER & Siberian Chiffchaff, Ardmore (AO’B)

8/11 1124: YELLOW-BROWED WARBLER (new), Red-breasted Flycatcher, Firecrest, Black Redstart & Swallow on Brownstown this morning (DW MC PA AA)

8/11 0950: Pallas’s Warbler still at Helvick (DO’S GK TK AK JAP), also the Red-breasted Flycatcher (CF)

8/11 0820: Red-breasted Flycatcher still present on Brownstown Head (MC)

7/11: PALLAS’S WARBLER (5th county record), YELLOW-BROWED WARBLER & RED-BREASTED FLYCATCHER on Helvick Head (JAP)

7/11: RED-BREASTED FLYCATCHER (6th site record) at the chalet garden before heading inland towards the willow garden, FIRECREST at ‘Paddyfield corner’, Black Redstart, Siberian Chiffchaff (in willow garden), 8 Common Chiffchaffs & a Blackcap (DW)

22/10: YELLOW-BROWED WARBLER, Helvick Head (BP per irishbirding)

19/10 (Sunday): CATTLE EGRET at airport / Cloghernagh cross, near Tramore Backstrand (JR); Garden Warbler at Ballymacart Cove (RT)

17/10: Another YELLOW-BROWED WARBLER ringed on Brownstown Head this morning (MAD PMW) - 3rd in 6 days !

17/10 1352: FIRECREST at entrance to Fenor Bog (AMcN)

15/10 1320: HOBBY at Lisselan, Tramore Backstrand (AK)

A few more of today’s Radde’s Warbler - part of a good catch of 66 new birds including 14 Chiffs, 3 Blackcaps, 7 Goldcrests, 16 Goldfinches & 2 Meadow Pipits

14/10: RADDE’S WARBLER ringed in the willow garden, Brownstown Head this morning (PMW) - the 3rd ringed in same garden in the last 10 Octobers (2016-2025), 6th Co Waterford (& 3rd Brownstown) record

12:10 1704: female RING-NECKED DUCK at Knockaderry Reservoir (MC), with 8 Tufted Duck

12/10: YELLOW-BROWED WARBLER ringed in the willow garden, Brownstown Head this morning (PMW)

Late roundup of some other recent GLOSSY IBISES from Monday (6/10), when 17+ at 3 west Waterford locations - 12+ at Kinsalebeg flying towards Youghal Bridge (DCl), 2 in flooded fields near Killongford, Dungarvan (DW), & 3 near Ballinclamper / Ballynacourty, Clonea Bay (DCl)

8/10: 2 SPOONBILLS & a GLOSSY IBIS at Kilmacleague, Tramore Backstrand (JR)

8/10 1002: ISABELLINE WHEATEAR still present at Ballinclamper, Clonea Bay (FO’C)

7/10 0755: AMERICAN PIPIT showing well at Rathmoylan Cove (DW)

Ireland’s third Isabelline Wheatear was showing very well over the border in Dungarvan this morning. Hopefully have something more colourful to post tomorrow from west Cork.

A few more shots of today’s American Pipit at Rathmoylan Cove

6/10: AMERICAN (BUFF-BELLIED) PIPIT with 25 Rock Pipits on rocks / beach at Rathmoylan Cove this afternoon (PMW) - 4th Co Waterford record

5/10 (Sunday): BAIRD’S SANDPIPER at Kinsalebeg (DW) - 6th Co Waterford record

ISABELLINE WHEATEAR still present at Ballinclamper, Clonea Bay at 7:45am - same location as yesterday on rocks below house next to beach (CF)

5/10: ISABELLINE WHEATEAR on the beach at Ballinclamper, Clonea Bay (FO’C) - 1st Co Waterford & 3rd Irish record

29/9: Turtle Dove at Abbeyside soccer club, Dungarvan (DL)

27/9: TREE PIPIT, Helvick Head (CF)

25/9: 2 YELLOW-BROWED WARBLERS (1 since yesterday) & a Common Redstart, Helvick Head (FO’C)

20/9 1011: GLOSSY IBIS in fields near Clonea strand (JG)

20/9: Whinchat, Pied Flycatcher, 2 Spotted Flys, Grasshopper Warbler, 3 Reed Warblers, 7 Blackcaps, a Willow Warbler, c.10 Chiffchaffs & 10 Wheatears on Brownstown (incl Coolum glen) (DW MC)

Given the season, some potential/target autumn-to-early-winter additions still needed for the Co Waterford list, based on national / adjacent-county status, local habitat / coverage, optimism & personal bias! Suggested best bets underlined - some hopefully just days/weeks away…

15/9: juvenile GREY PHALAROPE on Tramore boating lake since yesterday & another off Tramore pier (MC)

14/9 1622: juvenile SABINE’S GULL, Whiting Bay (DS DB); earlier, 2 GLOSSY IBISES flying past Dungarvan hospital in Ballyneety direction (per DCl)

A busy enough start to the autumn season - latest updates on waterfordbirds(dot)com - with expectations high for the coming weeks…

9/9: SABINE’s GULL off Brownstown Head late in evening (MC)

9/9: SABINE’s GULL off Brownstown Head late in evening (MC)

9/9: single GLOSSY IBIS flew from Lisselan to Pickardstown, Tramore Backstrand (JR); juvenile GREY PHALAROPE on sea off Ballinard, Clonea Bay (FO’C)

8/9 (Mon) 1824: 3rd-calendar-year SPOONBILL flying W at Trá na mBó, Bunmahon (DW)

8/9 1144: 12 GLOSSY IBISES & 2 SPOONBILLS in western Tramore Backstrand (AJ)

7/9 1417: HOOPOE along road outside main gardens, Brownstown Head (DW)

7/9 1346: GLOSSY IBIS at N end of Lisselan, viewed from road at Quillia (DW)

7/9: 4 CORY’S, 3 Sooty, 820 Manx Shearwaters, 4 Arctic Skuas, single adult LONG-TAILED SKUA, Bonxie, Pomarine Skua, Storm Petrel, Tufted Duck male, Common Scoter, Puffin & Black Guillemot W past Ram Head (seawatch 08:55-11:25, PMW)

7/9 1110: Pied Flycatcher & 2-3 Spotted Flycatchers next-door to main willow garden (MC)

6/9 1733: GLOSSY IBIS briefly at Lisselan, Tramore Backstrand before it continued E, Grey Phalarope still at Lisselan, since yesterday (MC)

6/9: 2 adult LONG-TAILED SKUAS, 2 juv SABINE’S GULLS, 5 Storm Petrels, 9 Arctic Skuas, 2 juv Puffins, <50 Manx Shearwaters & several distant unidentified small skuas, Helvick Head (seawatch 14:05-16:20, DW CF)

4/9: TREE PIPIT, Grasshopper Warbler, Willow Warbler & small nos of Chiffchaffs, Whitethroats, Grey Wagtails & Reed Buntings (MC)

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