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A really nice day with enough sunshine to make things feel comfortable, but a complete dearth of migrants on land and sea. Stopping off at Ferrybridge first, at least 16 Little Tern were occupying the concrete buoys out in the bay.  Two Whimbrel were barely the only waders on the exposed mud. On the Bill we gorged ourselves on food from the cafe, made tracks around the southern half of the island, indulged in cream tea, and sat lamenting our self-indulgence.  A perfect Saturday. Watching seabirds off the east cliffs had me enraptured for a while.    The cliffs were busy with Guillemot , Razorbill , Shag , and a couple of Fulmar soaring to and from the cliff-face. Moving onto Lodmoor later on in the afternoon provided a little more interest. A sole 1st summer Little Gull roosted on the edge of a scrape amongst the raucous Common Tern and Black-headed Gull . Waders were hardly plentiful but at least 30 summer plumaged Dunli...

A trip over to Ireland for my sister's wedding party but there were a couple of days for sightseeing. The Cliffs of Moher is disappointingly overrun with tourists, but not without reason as it's an impressive place.  The charge of six euros to enter the site seemed a little crude though.  Cashing in on a natural landscape was obviously the opportunity to steal a few shekels from the tourists. The cliffs were teeming with seabirds.  Plenty of Puffin , Guillemot , Razorbill , and Fulmar .  Two Red-billed Chough tumbled over the cliff face. The towns of Salthill and Galway are also worth a visit.