Today is Thursday 23rd May 2013. Rare birds found in Ireland in past years on 23rd May:
Honey Buzzard
South Slob, Wexford, 2009.
Citrine Wagtail
Tacumshin Lake, Wexford, 2007.
Temminck's Stint
Paddy's Dub, Lough Beg, Derry, 2004.
Tawny Pipit
Great Saltee Island, Wexford, 1992.
Red-footed Falcon
Near Clifden, Galway, 1991.
6th Irish Record
Bee-eater
Marathon Gas Platform, Cork, 1989.
Tawny Pipit
Hook Head, Wexford, 1988.
Ring-billed Gull
Sandymount Strand, Dublin, 1981.
8th Irish Record
Roller
Castlegregory, Kerry, 1958.
Found dead
Hobby
Lucifer Shoals Lightship, Wexford, 1890.
Taken alive. 7th Irish Record
Statistics compiled by Joe Hobbs. E&OE.
First for Western Palearctic
23rd May. No WP firsts are known for this date.



