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BRANCH MATTERS from the Cliffs of Northern Greenland Winter Has Almost Surreptitiously Come Upon Us the Black-Breasted Geese Come Down After a Wet and Dreary Autumn CAIRDE EANLAITH NA GAILLIMHE BIRDWATCH GALWAY This is a local forum newsletter – www.birdwatchgalway.org contributions and comments are QUARTERLY NEWSLETTER – EDITOR: NEIL SHARKEY most welcome. Telephone: 086 1680856 e-mail:[email protected] Distributed by e mail only Issue No. 63 Nov. 2008 BRANCH MATTERS From the cliffs of Northern Greenland Winter has almost surreptitiously come upon us the black-breasted geese come down after a wet and dreary Autumn. The nights are to graze on the wind-bitten sedges of Inis Cé. WESTERN SANDPIPER, Omey Strand, colder, the air is crisper and winter birds of various They land in October, exhausted, Cleggan, Co. Galway, 13th September 2008. kinds have arrived all over the county. We feared bringing with them their almost-grown young. that it would be too early to record (many Golden Saturday the 13th September hadn’t gotten off to a Plover during the survey at the end of October but No one on these shores could ever find their nests, great start. For the last few weeks there had been good numbers were seen, particularly at Rahasane so in early times it was concluded regular reports of American waders from the Turlough and near Glenamaddy. White-fronted that they had hatched from the pupa-shaped goose southwest. That morning there had been a report of Geese and Whooper Swans have now arrived at barnacle – a Semipalmated Sandpiper, a juvenile American their regular winter haunts and we are looking out as fish, they were eaten on Fridays. Golden Plover and two Buff-breasted Sandpipers at for the Brent Geese to make an appearance soon. Carahane Strand, Co. Kerry alone. I just couldn’t Of course, we wouldn’t know which birds had In April they gather now, restless, broody, understand how I hadn’t managed to find a single arrived at which locations if it wasn’t for the great fatted on the scant grasses of a continent’s margin, thing here in west Galway for the last month and a number of committed and keen birdwatchers in the ready to leave for breeding grounds in Greenland’s half since I moved here. First port of call a small county. You will find some interesting reports of tundra. beach near the house produced nothing out of the unusual sightings in this issue of the Newsletter. It is ordinary. No hoped-for Buff-breasted Sandpiper on not given to everyone to spot such rarities but that Watching that nervous strut and clamour – the adjacent golf course either. As I began to turn really does not matter. We also need people who a tuning orchestra raucous before the signal back to the car it started to rain - it didn’t stop all help out with surveys, either as counters or record to rise on the wind weekend. keepers, compile the bird reports and Newsletters, in a harmony On to Omey Strand next. Omey Strand is organise talks AND attend them, represent old as hunger – technically a tombolo, a wide sandbar connecting BirdWatch at events or on statutory bodies, plan the name grips somewhere else, Omey Island with the mainland at low tide. The best branch events and mind general branch matters. In my father’s talk of ‘winter-birds’ in his class numbers of “smalls” in west Galway are usually other words, there is always something to be done in South Donegal, found here. My first scan through the mixed Ringed and everybody could make a contribution. the name his schoolmaster had given Plover and Sanderling flock caused me no The best way to become involved is to attend the to big boys and girls excitement. However, as I went through the flock for monthly branch meetings on Wednesdays where who sat in the back seats, a second time a small calidrid wader jumped out at we draw up plans, exchange sightings and discuss back from the Lagan, me. It was obviously a species I had never seen matters of interest to any Galway birdwatcher. With bound soon for Scotland, before. The combination of a very long fine bill, the month of December approaching, the branch already seasoned, partial webbing between the toes, the remnants Christmas get-together would also be a good their migratory patterns set. arrow head markings along the flanks especially on opportunity to meet other branch members and Moya Cannon the right and some retained bright chestnut upper enjoy the presentation of recent sightings by Tom scapulars got my heart racing as I knew I was Cuffe, followed by a drink and a chat. We are From Carrying the Songs, published by Carcanet surely looking at a Western Sandpiper! I had been looking forward to seeing a lot of our members in Press, 2007. With kind permission from Moya. hoping to add Semipalmated Sandpiper to my finds the Anno Santo then or at any other event listed in list but was not expecting this, to say the least. I the programme at the end of the Newsletter. rang Aonghus O’Donaill but due to dire mobile reception in the area he couldn’t make out what I was saying. He obviously knew I had picked Marianne ten Cate LITTLE BLUE HERON something up, why else would I be ringing him at The arrival, in early Oct, of this spectacular this time in the morning. All I could do was shout bird at Letterfrack was, by any standards a BIRDS IN POETRY “WESTERN SANDPIPER OMEY ISLAND” down major birdwatching event. All credit to the phone. I eventually managed to get a text out to Aonghus O Donaill and Dermot Breen who Moya Cannon, now living in Galway, was born in people and got talking to Killian Mullarney to first followed up a local lead and then Donegal and has published three impressive discuss the identification over the phone. I got some identified the bird. This American heron was a volumes of poetry, Oar, The Parchment Boat and, in record shots of the bird with my phone and sent first for Ireland and England and for all 2007, Carrying the Songs. In that collection the these onto Killian and a few others. I was later practical purposes a first for Europe. Over the poem ‘Winter Birds’ is a blend of the wonder of the joined by a few birders, one of whom managed to following days the sight was visited by seasonal visitation of migratory geese (in this get some good photographs. hundreds of UK and Irish birdwatchers and instance Barnacle Geese) and the experience of Later on in the day, as the tide approached, we had received considerable national publicity. migratory labourers from her native Donegal. to make a quick escape were we not to get trapped Congratulations to Dermot and Aonghus. out there. While going through the flock from the Also worthy of note was the amazing list of Pat Finnegan mainland I picked up an interesting wader flying in. birds recorder by Dermot Breen and others on Winter Birds I remarked to the lads “What’s this flying in? - Buff- Aran during Oct. This was really ground breasted Sandpiper!” Thankfully it landed but only breaking stuff. If you want to see the full story I have frequently seen, with my own eyes, more remained just in time for everyone to get a quick complete with brilliant photographs just key look before it was off again. than a thousand of these small birds hanging down into Google the words Aran and punkbirders on the sea-shore from one piece of timber, enclosed The Western Sandpiper remained in view for most (trust me - it works) of the day, spending a lot of time sleeping next to or in their shells and already formed. NS Giraldus Cambrensis, Topographia Hiberniae behind clumps of seaweed. The bird was last seen at 1630hrs as high tide finally moved it out of the area. It was seen very briefly the next day in CAIRDE EANLAITH NA GAILLIMHE BIRDWATCH GALWAY This is a local forum newsletter – www.birdwatchgalway.org contributions and comments are QUARTERLY NEWSLETTER – EDITOR: NEIL SHARKEY most welcome. Telephone: 086 1680856 e-mail:[email protected] Distributed by e mail only Issue No. 63 Nov. 2008 atrocious weather. A grand total of nine people saw the Tower of London, which was about the only survives to this day. It was a great experience, and the bird, which just goes to show how different memorable part of the day. one, which was hard to leave behind when I moved things are here compared to the UK. This was the The Ravens nested in the gorge each year, and it to Galway. Luckily, the Peregrine at Rahasane fourth record for Ireland, the last being at was interesting to see how close the Peregrines Turlough ensures I get my regular fix of this Ballydehob, Cork in 1999. would nest to the Raven’s nest site. Ravens often spectacular bird. Dermot Breen nest close to Peregrines because Peregrines keep The history below shows the successes and failures food in caches (holes in the rock, usually) around from the start of the watch to my final year. The PEREGRINES, COURTING COUPLES their nest site, and Ravens try to learn where the information is taken from the BOC web site, AND RAVEN(S) caches are so they can raid them. http://www.boc-bristol.org.uk/. I ended up doing the early shift every Sunday morning for five years. This involved getting to the 1998 One young fledged on the Clifton side. Before I moved to County Galway in September watch site at dawn, after picking up the club scope, 1997 Four young fledged on the Clifton side.
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