Friday’s birds were: St. Mary’s – The Icterine Warbler was still on the Garrison and 2 Wood Sandpipers, a Green Sandpiper, 12 Greenshanks & a Kingfisher were on Porth Hellick Pool. A Sooty, a Balearic and 61 Cory’s Shearwaters flew past Deep Point. St. Agnes – A Grey Phalarope, 60 Read more…
Friday’s birds were: St. Mary’s – 4 Dunlins & a Green Sandpiper were at Porth Hellick Pool and 6 Sandwich Terns were at Bar Point. Bryher – 28 Ringed Plover and 3 Willow Warblers. Inter-island waters – A Mediterranean Gull, 10 Common and 6 Sandwich Terns were in Tresco Channel. Read more…
Sunday’s birds were: St. Mary’s – 3 Wheatears were on the airfield. Tresco – 60+ Sanderlings, a Common Redshank, a Turnstone and 10+ Whimbrels. Teän – 2 Mediterranean Gulls. At sea – The daytime pelagic produced 2 Wilson’s Storm-petrels, a Cory’s, 3 Sooty & 3 Great Shearwaters, 2 Great Skuas, Read more…
Tuesday’s birds were: St. Mary’s – The only report was of a European Storm-petrel off the Garrison. Wednesday’s birds were: At sea – A Wilson’s Storm-petrel, a Great and 7 Cory’s Shearwaters were seen from the Scillonian III on the crossing from St. Mary’s to Penzance. Thursday’s birds were: St. Read more…
Tuesday’s birds were: St. Mary’s – 16 Sanderlings were on Porthloo Beach and a Turnstone was by Hugh Town Quay. St. Agnes – 15 Sanderlings. Gugh – A Common Sandpiper and 2 Turnstones. Annet – 50+ Puffins. Wednesday’s birds were: Annet – 60+ Puffins. Thursday’s birds were: Tresco – 14 Read more…
Monday’s birds were: St. Mary’s -7 Greenshanks were at Porth Hellick Pool and 4 Common Swifts were over the Garrison. Tresco – A Hobby, a Redshank, 7 Greenshanks and 5 Common Swifts. Annet – A juvenile Mediterranean Gull. Inter-island waters – An adult Mediterranean Gull was in the Roads, between Read more…
Tuesday’s birds were: St. Mary’s – 3 Cory’s Shearwaters flew past Deep Pont. St. Agnes – A Dunlin and a Hobby. At sea – A Sooty & 4 Cory’s Shearwaters were seen from the Scillonian III on the crossing from Penzance to St. Mary’s. Wednesday’s birds were: St. Mary’s – Read more…
Monday’s birds were: St. Mary’s – The only report was of a Greenshank at Porth Hellick. Tresco – 7 Pochards, 3 Greenshanks, 1 Redshank, 3 Whimbrels, 2 Common Buzzards and 3 Common Swifts. Annet – 100+ Manx Shearwaters offshore. At sea – A pelagic trip with a TV crew to Read more…
Tuesday’s birds were: St. Agnes – 4 Curlews and a Whimbrel were on St. Agnes. No reports for Wednesday. Thursday’s birds were: Bryher – A female Marsh Harrier. Tresco – 2 Common Swifts. Annet -140+ Manx Shearwaters and 2 Common Terns offshore. Friday’s birds were: St. Martin’s – A female Read more…