They used to turn up every year at Nimmo's Pier in Galway but I've heard that's no longer the case.

Black-capped Pirate-pigeon.

So the question arrises about why everything was scored down. Was it because of a critical mind was looking at the articles more clearly or were they worried about accepting an article that would go against their bias.

No embarrassment or apologies necessary. I tell the birders I go out with that as a birder one will make mistakes and that I have birded so long that I have more than all of them combined.

Isn't it a Tricolored Heron?

What thermal imager did you use and how was it?

Yea, I couldn't believe it.

Of course Great Horned Owl is the correct name.

It became stronger later in the night.

I found in moving to the US that a lot of people saw it as a badge of honor with how many unused vacation days they had left over. We used to say that the US workers planned their vacation time around work whereas the Irish planned their work around vacations.
Make sure you use them all.

No. They are a lot slimmer and smaller and the facial features are so different.

We had our Kentucky Ornithological Society meeting at Kentucky Dam so we got people onto lifer birds from Caspian Terns to Golden-winged Warblers.

Did you see the Wilson's Phalarope that was hanging out there?