August 2012

St. Mary’s – 2 Tufted Ducks were on Porth Hellick Pool and 2 Swifts were over Lower Moors. Tresco – 20 Greenshanks, 1+ Redshanks, 3 Green Sandpipers and a Ruff. St. Agnes – A Common Redstart

St. Agnes – 2 Whimbrels. Gugh – A Common Sandpiper. At sea – A Great Shearwater and 3 Great Skuas were seen from the evening Scillonian crossing

St. Mary’s – 12 Turnstones were below the quay car park. Tresco – 18 Greenshanks, 7 Redshanks, a Green Sandpiper, 2 Sanderlings, 2 Dunlins, 22 Ringed Plover, 4 Swifts and a Common Buzzard. At sea – A Sabine’s Gull, 2 Pomarine Skuas, a Great Skua and 30 European Storm-petrels were Read more…

St. Mary’s – 4 Siskins were at Telegraph and 3 Swifts were at Trenoweth. Samson – A Great Northern Diver was offshore. St. Agnes – 4 Wheatear.

St. Mary’s – A Sooty Shearwater flew past Deep Point and 4 Greenshanks & a Green Sandpiper were on Porth Hellick Pool. Tresco – 20 Greenshanks and 7 Little Egrets

St. Mary’s – 30 Cory’s Shearwaters, 5 Great Shearwaters, a Sooty Shearwater, a Balearic Shearwater and a Great Skua flew past Deep Point between 19:30 and 20:30. St. Agnes – 120 Cory’s Shearwaters, 2 Sooty Shearwaters and a Great Skua flew past Horse Point between 16:45 and 17:45. Little Egrets Read more…

St. Mary’s – 5 Siskins were on high Lanes and 2 Mediterranean Gulls were at Porthloo. At sea – The best short-range pelagic trip so far this year produced 2 Wilson’s Storm-petrels, 11 Cory’s Shearwaters, 5 Great Shearwaters, a Sooty Shearwater, 70 European Storm-petrels, a Sabine’s Gull and a Pomarine Read more…

St. Mary’s – 3 Crossbills & 2 Siskins were at Innisidgen and 4 Mediterranean Gulls were at Porthloo. Tresco – 14 Greenshanks, 3 Common Sandpipers, a Common Buzzard and 3 Common Swifts

St. Mary’s – 6 Greenshanks were on Porth Hellick Pool and a Mediterranean Gull was at Porthloo. St. Agnes – 9 Curlews, a Whimbrel, 7 Sanderling and a Common Swift.

St. Mary’s – 2 Curlews and a Whimbrel were at Porthloo. Crossbill (juv) and Siskin (juv) ringed a Innisidgen Tresco – 13 Greenshanks, 4 Green Sandpipers, 6 Common Sandpipers, a Dunlin, 3 Common Swifts, 2 Peregrines, a Common Buzzard, a Little Egret and 7 Grey Herons. Bryher – 2 Whimbrels, Read more…