BIRDS
SEEN ON THE BEARA PENINSULA, WEST COUNTY CORK, IRELAND, MAY 1999 (Click
the mini-map to view a large map showing the location and to find links
to the Dursey Page and Dursey Photo Album.)
I was very unlucky on this
holiday not to see a vagrant European bee eater which for 6 days was in
the area where I was staying. When informed of its habitual location (a
garden at the east end of Crow Head), I immediately went looking for it,
only to be told that it had flown off a few hours earlier! The sighting
of black guillemot was, however, very good. Choughs are common on the Beara
Peninsula and all the crows are of the hooded variety.
