Monday (19/07) Balearic Shearwater – 2 on a evening pelagic trip 6 miles south of St. Mary’s. Sooty Shearwater – 1 on the evening pelagic trip. European Storm-petrel – 1 on the evening pelagic trip. Dark-bellied Brent Goose – The unseasonal bird was in Bathinghouse Porth, Tresco. Pochard – 5 on the Great Pool, Tresco. Green Sandpiper – Read more…
Monday (12/07) Rose-coloured Starling – The bird near the police station had moved further along the road towards Parson’s field and was later back in the New Zealand flame tree. Another was near the Seven Stones Inn on St. Martin’s. Mistle Thrush – 1 in a field at Maypole Triangle. Long-tailed Skua – Read more…
Monday (05/07) Red-Footed Falcon – 1 still on the Golf Course. Rose-coloured Starling – 1 in the allotments opposite Normandy house Iceland Gull – 1 was in a bare field at the junction of Telegraph Road and High Lanes and it or another at Great Bay, St. Martin’s Siskin – 2 have been feeding Read more…
Monday (28/06) Wilson’s Storm-petrel – 1 was seen 5 miles southeast of St. Mary’s on the evening pelagic trip. (photo) Red-Footed Falcon – 1 still on the Golf Course. Rose-coloured Starling – 1 was on the west end of the beach on Old Town Bay, then on the roof of nowhere. European Storm-petrel – Read more…