10/2 1514: WATER PIPIT at Ballinclamper, Clonea Bay (FO’C)

Distant crops of very actively feeding Firecrest at Ballyquin today

8/2 1200: male FIRECREST at Ballyquin, near Ardmore (PMW)

25/1: 4 RING-NECKED DUCKS (2 adult males & 2 females) at Knockaderry Reservoir today (DW) - a new record-count for a Co Waterford location

1/1/2025: 6 CATTLE EGRETS at Gortahilly, near Ballymacaw (JD); DUSKY WARBLER at Anne Valley (JPM); 3 RING-NECKED DUCKS & Long-tailed Duck at Knockaderry Res (MC); RING OUZEL at Mahon Falls (DW); SPOTTED SANDPIPER at Ballynagaul & 2 Slavonian Grebes off Ballinacourty Pier (DW)

26/12 1055: CETTI’S WARBLER heard singing at Ballinlough, near Kill (DW) - new (3rd) location for the species in Co Waterford

25/12: 2 unseasonal male Ring Ouzels (apparently 1st-winter & adult) at Mahon Falls, Comeragh Mountains this morning (DW)

22/12 1250: 4 CATTLE EGRETS at Kilmacleague, Tramore Backstrand (DW)

14/12: Dusky Warbler still present at Anne Valley & Spotted Sandpiper at Ballynagaul, Dungarvan (SG)

12/12: DUSKY WARBLER still present at Anne Valley (JDM), Marsh Harrier at Blackwater Valley (ADM) & Slavonian Grebe off pitch & putt course, Dungarvan (TM)

9/12 1014: DUSKY WARBLER still at Dunhill end of Anne Valley (SM TB)

7/12 1304: DUSKY WARBLER still showing at Anne Valley, same area (just below N carpark) as yesterday (MC)

6/12 1017: DUSKY WARBLER still showing well along Anne Valley (MC), further N towards Dunhill village & c.250 S of car park at N end of Anne Valley walk

4/12 1009: DUSKY WARBLER at Anne Valley, feeding & calling frequently along stream 1.2 km upstream from Dunhill Castle (DS) - 2nd ever Co Waterford record (same finder as the Brownstown Head October 2024 bird!)

2/12 1507: SPOTTED SANDPIPER again at Ballynagaul, Dungarvan (GK)

22/11: YELLOW-BROWED WARBLER at Ardmore, in willows near W end of cliff walk (AA); Scaup & CATTLE EGRET at Lisselan, Tramore Backstrand (MC); male GOOSANDER at Ballyneety, Dungarvan (AA)

21/11 0919: 3 RING-NECKED DUCKS (male, female & 1st-w male) at Knockaderry Reservoir this morning (MC)

A hugely significant publication from the great RJ Ussher in the Irish Naturalist of 1897: Great Auk bones in kitchen middens at Tramore Sandhills - barely 2 km (as the auk can’t fly!) from the 1834 live capture of the species between Brownstown Head & Ballymacaw, Co Waterford

16/11 1405: female/1st-winter-type MARSH HARRIER at Clashmore Broads, Blackwater Valley (MC)

15/11 1026: Spotted Sandpiper again inside Ballynagaul Pier, Dungarvan (CF)

14/11 1126: Spotted Sandpiper still at Ballynagaul Pier, Dungarvan (FO’C)

13/11: juvenile SPOTTED SANDPIPER at Ballynagaul Pier, Dungarvan this morning (RT) - 7th Co Waterford record

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