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Friday, 11 October 2019

White-rumped Sandpipers (yes, PLURAL) at Carrahane

Three White-rumped Sandpipers, Carrahane, 11th October 2019 (David O'Connor).

A really remarkable record, but amazingly, not the first time that three have been seen in Ireland - three were at the Roe Estuary in Derry in October 2018 - but this first time that three have been seen together in Kerry. However David thought there was a minimum of three, with flocks of waders highly mobile and unsettled. Be great if it proved to be four and the Kingdom could secure that record!

White-rumped Sandpiper, Carrahane, 11th October 2019 (David O'Connor).

White-rumped Sandpipers, Carrahane, 11th October 2019 (David O'Connor).

White-rumped Sandpipers, Carrahane, 11th October 2019 (David O'Connor).