Great clear full moon night at Galley Head catching Storm Petrels with a good team. 264 caught including 3 controls from elsewhere in 3 hours @NPWSIreland @_BTO @BirdWatchIE @GlengarriffWood

Rather quiet Killarney NP CES 7 yesterday with just 25 birds from 13 species. Although adult female and a very dark juv G-s Woodpecker and a juv Reed Bunting can’t be sniffed at. Also did the two Barn Owl nest sites with broods of 4 and 3 chicks @NPWSIreland @_BTO @BirdWatchIE

Lesser Black-backed Gull project work today in Roaringwater Bay. 204 colour ringed from 3 islands including @CCBOIE and 14 Herring Gull. Seems to be a productive season here and a fabulous day to be island hopping! @NPWSIreland @_BTO @BirdWatchIE

CES 7 at Clogheen Marsh was steady with 54 birds of 15 species. Highlight was the first bird of the morning - a retrap Long-eared Owl from last November. Over 2/3 of the rest was warblers including the first juvenile Sedge @NPWSIreland @_BTO @BirdWatchIE

RT @PortofCork: Port of Cork’s Common Tern Breeding Project is in full swing! 🐣. Hatching began at the start of June, and during a recent b….

Wonderful day giving budding Canadian ringer Adam Ross a flavour of some of the projects in Cork. Firstly, Rook ringing as part of a RAS, then ringing 99 Common Tern chicks as part of @PortofCork project with @bomah and lastly a nest of 3 Buzzard chicks @NPWSIreland @_BTO

Our last Peregrine nest site of the year, followed by our first few West Cork Barn Owl nest sites checked this week. Seems to be a decent year with a good number of healthy chicks, also a pair of Stock Dove chicks @NPWSIreland @_BTO @BirdWatchIE @AlanMc_23 @GlengarriffWood

CES 6 at Clogheen Marsh was only just manageable between the various weather fronts, but a decent session with 61 birds of 15 species. Lots of fledglings including the first juvenile Reed Warbler @NPWSIreland @_BTO @BirdWatchIE

Our second new Cuckoo is ‘Cuach Inchi’, a 2nd year male that was tagged at Inchi More above Ballingeary on 2nd June. Inchi has already moved over 1600km firstly to Pembrokeshire in Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿, then through France 🇫🇷 before arriving east of Madrid, Spain 🇪🇸 on Wednesday 3/3

The first new Cuckoo is ‘Cuach Glen’, an adult male who was tagged in the hills above Glengarriff on 23rd May. Glen has already started his migration and by Sunday was at Rame Head near Plymouth, England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @GlengarriffWood @NPWSIreland @COSullivanTD 2/3

Irish Cuckoo Update - Cores has now moved to near Limoges in central France, but the big news is that there are now two extra tagged Cuckoos out there both from Cork. These two birds are wearing a different device that send data via mobile phone network @NPWSIreland @_BTO 1/3

CES session 5 @LakeHotel Killarney NP was quiet, but a couple of notable individuals amongst the 22 birds. Our first ever juvenile Reed Bunting, seem to get flooded out most years and a retrap Reed Bunting originally ringed in 2022! @NPWSIreland @_BTO @BirdWatchIE @KerryBirdNews

Irish Cuckoo Tagging Project Update - after just over 6 weeks on breeding grounds in Killarney NP, Cores is on migration! Brief stop on Kerry side of Beara peninsula on 10th before quick departure to SW Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 BIG NEWS NEXT WEEK! @NPWSIreland @_BTO @BirdWatchIE @KerryBirdNews

Great day out doing raptor nests. Another 2 Peregrines sites ringed in Cork as well as a Kestrel nest right in Cork City! But the most amazing find was amongst mostly corvid remains was the remains of a HOOPOE in one of the Peregrine nests!! @NPWSIreland @_BTO @BirdWatchIE

Clogheen Marsh CES session 4 produced the first 5 juveniles of the year in amongst the 54 birds of 18 species. A good mix including our first Kingfisher of the year, a retrap adult from 2024, also a side catch of 3 Mallard and a Moorhen @NPWSIreland @_BTO @BirdWatchIE

CES session 4 @LakeHotel Killarney NP produced 53 birds of 13 species. It was heavily dominated by juvenile birds in particular Blue Tits and Long-tailed Tits, but also Treecreeper and 2 Kingfisher @NPWSIreland @_BTO @BirdWatchIE @AlanMc_23 @Thalie__K 🪶

A couple of our ongoing RAS projects. Rooks in our Enniskeane now getting busy inc birds from 2019. Rock Doves @CCBOIE getting some great survival data including BH that was ringed in 2016 which keeps breaking @_BTO longevity records! @NPWSIreland @BirdWatchIE @MaryCadogan1

Nice resighting of one of the juvenile Lesser Black-backed Gulls rehabbed by Wildlife Rescue Cork last year. It is alive and well sunning itself on a beach near Porto, Portugal last week doing the normal migration it should be doing @NPWSIreland @_BTO @BirdWatchIE 🪶

Monitoring Cork Peregrine nest sites today. 6 sites in total, 3 of which had chicks still too small and 3 which were ringed with broods of 2, 2 and 4. Corvids seemed to be exclusively on the menu! @NPWSIreland @_BTO @BirdWatchIE

CES 3 at Killarney NP was fairly decent with 35 birds of 12 species. Highlights being a pair of Siskin, 4 Treecreeper and a new occurrence for this site an adult Chiffchaff! Lots of juvs now around too @NPWSIreland @_BTO @KerryBirdNews @BirdWatchIE @LakeHotel