Green Sandpiper, Trabeg, 16th September 2016 (M.O'Clery).
Green Sandpiper, Trabeg, 16th September 2016 (M.O'Clery).
The upper estuary at Trabeg is much the best site to see Green Sandpipers in the SW of Ireland, with up to three present each August and September. This is one of the more accessible areas where river meets estuary and you would have to wonder how many of these distinctive waders go unnoticed each autumn in the largely inaccessible areas of creeks, muddy pool edges and tidal river stretches elsewhere in Kerry, such as Castlemaine Harbour.
