Wednesday, January 10, 2018

Snow Bunting at Howth Harbour

Irishbirding is a good resource for rarity news, and this morning it sent me to Howth Harbour where three Snow Buntings have been seen regularly. Sure enough, the were foraging on the sloping, sea.ward side of the wall. They were very confiding, much more so than I'm used to in New York, the ones at Jones' Beach were quite flighty.

Other birds included 6 or 7 Purple Sandpipers on the rocks, a single Red-throated Diver just offshore, and a distant Fulmar coming in to a roost on Ireland's Eye.

ebird list for the day

Snow Bunting, one of the cutest birds I know!


Several Purple Sandpipers along the splash zone
Red-throated Diver

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