Tuesday – 3 drake Tufted ducks, 2 Swifts and a Lesser Redpoll on Tresco Wednesday – The only report of note was of a very young Cuckoo being fed by Rock Pipits on Porth Hellick Down, St Mary’s. Thursday – A singing Firecrest was in Lower Moors, St Mary’s and a Golden Read more…
Tresco – A Black-tailed Godwit and 3 Swifts. At sea – Another quiet pelagic trip produced just 6 European Storm-petrels and a Great Skua.
St. Mary’s – A Cuckoo at Porth Hellick. Bryher – A Hooded Crow. St. Martin’s – A Sooty Shearwater flew past the Daymark.
St. Mary’s – 2 Sandwich Terns were in Porthcressa Bay. Bryher – 4 Golden Plover. Tresco – 4 Sanderling
Bryher – A Hobby, a Dunlin and a Lesser Redpoll. Eastern Isles – Peregrines bred successfully. A family party of 5 birds was seen. At sea – Birders on a shark fishing trip saw just 10 European Storm-petrels and 6 Manx Shearwaters.
St. Mary’s – A singing Marsh Warbler by the Stephen Sussex hide at Porth Hellick also 4 Swifts were over the pool. St. Agnes – 2 Swifts Samson – A Grey Plover.
St. Mary’s – 3 Swifts and a Wheatear on Peninnis. Tresco – A Whimbrel and a Swift At sea – A very quiet pelagic trip produced just 10 European Storm-petrels
St. Mary’s – The Eider was still at Pendrethen, a Spotted Flycatcher was on Peninnis and a Lesser Redpoll was at Lower Moors. St. Agnes – 2 Bar-tailed Godwits. Inter-island waters – 25+ Common Terns in Tresco channel and 3 Sandwich Terns in The Roads.
Still very quiet on the islands. Birds seen on St Mary’s over the last three days were: Thursday – A Swift was over Hugh Town and the Eider was still at Pendrethen Friday – 2 Lesser Redpolls at Higher Moors, a Swift over Old Town and one over Porth Hellick. Read more…
St. Mary’s – A Lesser Redpoll at Higher Moors and a Whimbrel on Newman’s Island. At sea – Birders joining a fishing trip in the afternoon saw 5 European Storm-petrels and the first Wilson’s Storm-petrel of the year. An evening shark fishing trip produced 10 European Storm-petrels, 3 Arctic Read more…