St. Mary’s – 3 Siberian Chiffchaffs & 3 Firecrests at Lower Moors, a Firecrest at Porth Hellick, a Firecrest at Rosehill, a Black Redstart at Little Porth and 3 Pale-bellied Brent Geese at Porth Mellon
St. Mary’s – The Water Pipit & Black Redstart were still by the quay car park, the Black Redstart was still at Little Porth and the 3 Pale-bellied Brent Geese & the Red-breasted Merganser were still at Porth Mellon. 2 Firecrests, 4 Siberian Chiffchaffs, a Yellow-browed Warbler, a Common Buzzard Read more…
St. Mary’s – The 3 Pale-bellied Brent Geese and the female Goldeneye were still at Porthloo. 14 Snipe flew over High Lanes, the Water Pipit was still on the beach below the quay car park and 2 Common Gulls, 20 Sanderlings & a male Black Redstart were at Little Porth. Read more…
St. Mary’s – 3 Pale-bellied Brent Geese, 7 Dunlin & 5 Common Gull at Porthloo. There was an impressive flock of waders on the airfield, with 300+ Golden Plovers, 50+ Lapwings, 20+ Ringed Plovers, 5 Dunlin, 5 Snipe and 3 Turnstones. At Porth Hellick there were 2+ Siberian Chiffchaffs, 2 Read more…
St. Mary’s – A female Goldeneye, a Red-breasted Merganser and 3 Pale-bellied Brent Geese at Porthloo. The Water Pipit & Black Redstart were still on the beach below the quay car park and a Little Grebe,12 Teal, a Jack Snipe, 6 Greenshank, a Redshank, a Grey Plover & 2 Firecrests Read more…
St. Mary’s – The cold weather continued to push much larger numbers of Snipe, Fieldfare, Redwing, Golden Plover & Lapwing than is usual on Scilly, e.g 200+ Lapwing and 120+ Golden Plover across with flocks of 85 Lapwing and 45 Golden Plover at Carn Friars. 3 Pale-bellied Brent Geese, a Read more…
St. Mary’s – A Spoonbill, 2 Firecrests, a Siberian Chiffchaff, 2 Jack Snipe, 17 Teal and 15 Lapwing at Porth Hellick, 2 Siberian Chiffchaff at Lower Moors and a Water Pipit & a Black Redstart on the beach below the Quay car park. St. Agnes – 30 Golden Plover, 10 Read more…
St. Mary’s – A very cold day but warmer than the mainland, with consequent cold weather movement. There were 30 Golden Plovers and 22 Lapwings on the airfield, there were other small flocks of Lapwing and Golden Plovers around the island as well as Redwings, Fieldfares. Chaffinches and Meadow Pipits Read more…