Rónán McLaughlin

@MaliHalls @BirdGuides @RareBirdAlertUK Thank you, yeah it was bigger than I expected.

@romclaughlin @BirdGuides @RareBirdAlertUK Beauty Ronan...Good comparison too

Well folks it’s been a while! Now and again a bird so monstrous is found you just have too! Grey-headed lapwing at Low Newton, Northumberland earlier today. @BirdGuides @RareBirdAlertUK huge congrats Gary on finding this beauty.

@Stewchat @BirdGuides @RareBirdAlertUK Many thanks. No, I had the pleasure of a nice spin up the A1, Newcastle resident nowadays.

@birdingstandard @MeathBirder @BMcCloskey_98 @JohnMur92523137 @cianbirder @Oileaniarthair brown envelope in the post, mind you I was covered in brown after this one lol.

@MeathBirder @BMcCloskey_98 @JohnMur92523137 @cianbirder @Oileaniarthair In fairness, I think @romclaughlin can compete on that score.

Fantastic views of this Male and Female Little Ringed Plover with @cianbirder @Oileaniarthair #scarcemigrants #springbirding

Dear #Donegal is there any chance you lot will cop yourselves on, some of us would like to get home at some stage!

@discoverirl And not a hotel in sight!

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@BMcCloskey_98 @bobolink5 There’s some seawatching to be had in the morning I reckon!

@bobolink5 @romclaughlin Blowing an absolute hoolie on Galley too...

Excuse the language, Jesus h Christ!! Full blown hurricane force at Kinsale Alpha. #StormEllen that gusts to 180kph.

That’s a new sustained windspeed Irish record for the month of August, previous was 83kph at Malin Head August 1973, 1 kph short of the highest gust recorded for the month of August in Claremorris in 1999.

Monkey puzzle tree is no more!

Roche's Point SW46 knots (85)kph gust to 77 knots 88mph or 143 kph #StormEllen #cork

From 13 knots at 2126 to 54 knots at 2214! #StormEllen

@IomJD About 26 nautical miles offshore.

@romclaughlin How far offshore Rónán?

@KildareMet Looks like it was 90knots just after 2000, I didn’t see that!

@romclaughlin Over 90 knots?

Sustained violent storm 11 at kinsale Alpha, 68 knots, 78mph or about 126kph. Cork harbour, east cork and west Waterford take heed.

@KildareMet Near live here.

Kinsale rig now recording gusts to 80 knots 92 mph or just short of 150 kph fugroweather.com/WeatherMonitor… #StormEllen

@florNEWS About an hour and a half and it will go southwest, worst will be east cork west Waterford.

@romclaughlin More of a side-eye then, cos we haven’t had any winds at all yet...

Anyone know what this is..? Dead calm, blue patch, just off the coast from us here in Baltimore...seems to be sucking the strong winds into some kind of vortex... #storm #stormellen #redalert

@MetEireann is keeping the situation under review and cannot rule out further status red warnings in connection with #StormEllen says Head of Forecasting Evelyn Cusack