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 October 2024
 12th October: 2 ringtail Hen Harrier, Imm. Male Marsh Harrier & 2 Great White Egret, Barranny, Lough Corrib (Ian O'Connor).
 12th October: Green Sandpiper, Caranavoodaun turlough (Sean Holland).
 12th October: Long-tailed Duck, Mweeloon (Sean Holland).
 12th October: 2nd yr. White-tailed Eagle, again present, Rahasane turlough.
 11th October: 25 Greenland White-fronted Goose, Rahasane turlough (Tom Murtagh).
 10th October: Hen Harrier, Male Marsh Harrier, Great White Egret & Kingfisher, Barranny, Lough Corrib (Ian O'Connor).
 10th October: 2 Yellow-browed Warbler, again present, Inishmore.
 10th October: Yellow-browed Warbler, Trident Garden, Bunowen (Dermot Breen).
 10th October: 50 Cory's Shearwater, 10 Great Skua, 10 Sooty Shearwater, Great Skua & 300-500 Common Dolphin, Slyne Head (John & Sue Brittain).
 10th October: 600 Cory's Shearwater, 550 Great Skua, Sooty Shearwater, Manx Shearwater & Great Skua, north of Inishbofin (Gerard Walshe).
 10th October: Common Rosefinch, Inishmore (Hugh Delaney).
 10th October: 72 Whooper Swan, Nr. Seal Colony, Inishmore (Chris Gwiazada).
 9th October: 2 Hen Harrier & Great White Egret, Barranny, Lough Corrib (Ian O'Connor).
 9th October: 22 Cory's Shearwater, Great Skua, 10 Whooper Swan & 9 Barnacle Goose, off Bun Gabhla, Inishmore (Hugh Delaney).
 9th October: 4 Yellow-browed Warbler, Inishmore (Hugh Delaney).
 9th October: 200 Cory's Shearwater, 20 Great Shearwater, Sabine's Gull, Great Skua & 5 Barnacle Goose, off West End, Inishbofin.
 9th October: Yellow-browed Warbler, Dolphin Hotel, East End, Inishbofin.
 9th October: 2 Yellow-browed Warbler, again present, graveyard, East End, Inishbofin.
 9th October: Lapland Bunting, West End, Inishbofin.
 9th October: Ring Ouzel, again present, West End, Inishbofin.
 9th October: Wryneck, again present, piggery by graveyard, East End, Inishbofin.
 9th October: Arctic Warbler, again present, East End, Inishbofin.
 8th October: Ring Ouzel & 2 Yellow-browed Warbler, Inishbofin.
 8th October: Arctic Warbler, again present, East End, Inishbofin.
 8th October: Wryneck, again present, graveyard, East End, Inishbofin.
 7th October: Yellow-browed Warbler, Spotted Flycatcher & 11 Barnacle Goose, Inishbofin (Dan Mantle).
 7th October: Wryneck, again present, graveyard, Inishbofin.
 7th October: 500 Cory's Shearwater, 100 Great Shearwater, 6 Sooty Shearwater, 28 Manx Shearwater, Great Skua, 2 Arctic Skua & 34 Storm Petrel, seawatch off Inishbofin (Dan Mantle).
 7th October: Great White Egret, again present, Kiltullagh Lough.
 7th October: Ruff, Black-tailed Godwit, 1,500 Golden Plover, 8 Ringed Plover, 7 Dunlin & Pintail, Glennamaddy turlough (Paul Troake).
 7th October: 2 Hen Harrier & Merlin, Barranny, Lough Corrib (Ian O'Connor).
 7th October: 2 Cory's Shearwater, 5 Manx Shearwater & Bottle-nosed Dolphin, Rossaveal-Inishmore ferry (Hugh Delaney).
 6th October: White-tailed Eagle, 3 ringtail Hen Harrier & Male Marsh Harrier, Barranny, Lough Corrib (Ian O'Connor).
 6th October: 100 Great Shearwater, 40 Cory's Shearwater & Great Skua, off north-west side of Inishmore (Dermot Breen).
 6th October: 30 Cory's Shearwater, Great Shearwater & Arctic Skua, Inishmore-Rossaveal ferry (Gerard Walshe).
 6th October: Turtle Dove, Bun Gabhla, Inishmore (Dermot Breen).
 6th October: 50 Gannet & 12 Cory's Shearwater, off Bun Gabhla, Inishmore (Chris Gwiazada).
 6th October: 20 Cory's Shearwater, Great Shearwater & Manx Shearwater, Rossaveal-Inishmore ferry (Dermot Breen).
 6th October: 1,200 Golden Plover, 300 Black-tailed Godwit, Gadwall, Whooper Swan & 2nd yr. White-tailed Eagle, Rahasane turlough (Andrea Parisi).
 6th October: Arctic Warbler, East End, Inishbofin (Ian & Neil Ellis).
 4th October: 2 Great White Egret, Barnaderg Bay (Dermot Breen).
 4th October: Kingfisher, Black River at Claran (Neil Sharkey).
 4th October: Juv. American Golden Plover, Omey Strand (Dermot Breen).
 3rd October: 13 Greenland White-fronted Goose, Rahasane turlough (Dermot Breen).
 3rd October: 3 Ruff, Little Stint, 2,200 Golden Plover, 6 Ringed Plover & Peregrine, Glennamaddy turlough (Sean Holland).
 3rd October: Pied Flycatcher, Priest's Garden, Inishbofin (Steve Millar & Tom Buckley).
 2nd October: Great-spotted Woodpecker, Derryclare Wood N.R. (Dermot Breen).
 2nd October: Yellow-browed Warbler, East End, Inishbofin.
 2nd October: Wryneck, again present, East End, Inishbofin.
 2nd October: Redwing, Bearna (David O'Keeffe).
 1st October: Wheatear, Mutton Island causeway, Galway city (Tom Cuffe).
 1st October: Hen Harrier & Great White Egret, Barranny, Lough Corrib (Ian O'Connor).
 1st October: 3 Ruff, 12 Black-tailed Godwit, 1,000 Golden Plover, 14 Dunlin, 43 Little Egret, 40 Tufted Duck & 18 Great-crested Grebe, Glennamaddy turlough (Paul Troake).
 1st October: Great White Egret, Kiltullagh Lough (Paul Troake).

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