This juvenile Spotted Sandpaper was at Rough Point today, found by holidaying birder Paul Troake. The bird was frequenting the rocky shoreline of the very north-east of the Magharees Peninsula and was somewhat wary and flighty.
Juvenile Spotted Sandpiper, Rough Point, 29th August 2017 (M.O'Clery).
Juvenile Spotted Sandpiper, Rough Point, 29th August 2017 (M.O'Clery).
This is the eighth record for Kerry after the first, a summer-plumaged adult, at Dunquin in 1994, followed by records at Listowel (1994), Black Rock (2009), Tuosist (2011), Baile an Reannaigh (2012), near Ross Castle (2012) and on Skellig Michael (2016).
Juvenile Spotted Sandpiper, Rough Point, 29th August 2017 (M.O'Clery).
Juvenile Spotted Sandpiper, Rough Point, 29th August 2017 (M.O'Clery).
Juvenile Spotted Sandpiper, Rough Point, 29th August 2017 (M.O'Clery).
