Rose coloured Starling - Rinevella bay

 A year ago to the week that I got to see the Rose coloured Starling at Hags Head.

Late news of bird had me on the road in the morning to Rinevella bay, south Clare. A message beeped to say the bird was there... and there it was hanging out with 3 adult European Starlings on a wire overlooking a garden next to the seafront.

The rain was consistant and the birds were moving about feeding but they never joined the juvenile Starling flock that were feeding near the Cows and beach shoreline, As the rain got a bit heavy I relocated them on the Sea Wall rocks, looking Grumpy and wet.

Royal Tern - Rinavella Bay , Clare, Ireland

Late evening bird news said that the Royal Tern (2nd Irish record, 1st for Clare) that is frequenting Beale Strand in Kerry had left the roost and headed across the Shannon to Clare.

I had a hunch that the bird would turn up at Rinevella bay on the reef that Sandwich, Arctic and Common Terns use to roost.

I was walking the shoreline of the bay toward the reefs with my daughter Grace when sure enough at 9:15 this monster of a Royal Tern showed up.

` Got ya`

The Tern did the rounds in and out of the bay not settling on the reef for long (maybe due to a knackered right leg)  until 10:50 it moved on

I relocated the bird feeding offshore just around the coast at Carrigaholt bay around 3pm 

To get home and find that my Image Stabilizer was off  and with Shaky exited hands and my photos  were not the best ,,,,,,

Never Mind aye!

Rinevella bay