Friday’s birds were: St. Mary’s – A Spotted Crake was on Lower Moors Pool early morning, also there were 4 Green Sandpipers & a Greenshank and a Hobby flew over. Nearby the Wryneck showed occasionally on the path and wires beside the Standing Stones Field. Another Wryneck was on the Read more…
St. Mary’s – The 2 Pectoral Sandpipers were still on Porth Hellick Pool and the Wryneck was still in the Standing Stones Field at the Old Town end of Lower Moors. Bryher – A Spotted Flycatcher and a Common Whitethroat. St. Martin’s – 4 Northern Wheatears. At sea – The Read more…
St. Mary’s – The 2 Pectoral Sandpipers, a Lapwing, a Black-tailed Godwit, a Common Sandpiper, a Dunlin, 11 Greenshanks and a Pied Flycatcher were at or around Porth Hellick Pool. 2 Green Sandpipers and a Greenshank with very yellow legs were on Lower Moors Pool. Nearby a Wryneck was in Read more…
St. Mary’s – 2 Pectoral Sandpipers, 2 Green Sandpipers, a Common Sandpiper, 11 Greenshanks, a Black-tailed Godwit, a Lapwing, a Hobby and 2 Kingfishers were all at Porth Hellick. Bryher – 6 Dunlins and a Spotted Flycatcher. At sea – 2 Cory’s Shearwaters were just west of the Northern Rocks. Read more…
St. Mary’s – There were 2 juvenile Pectoral Sandpipers, 7 Greenshanks, a Lapwing, a Common Sandpiper and a Water Rail on Porth Hellick Pool. 2 Green Sandpipers were on Lower Moors Pool, 3 Mediterranean Gulls were at Porthloo and a Merlin was over Hugh Town. At sea – 2 Cory’s Read more…
St. Mary’s – The juvenile Pectoral Sandpiper & the Lapwing were still on Porth Hellick Pool, a Green Sandpiper & 2 Greenshanks were at Lower Moors and 2 Mediterranean Gulls were off the Garrison. At sea – A Wilson’s Storm-petrel was seen southeast of Giant’s Castle from the Scillonian III Read more…
St. Mary’s – The Lapwing and a juvenile Pectoral Sandpiper were on Porth Hellick Pool. At sea – The daytime Birders’ Special pelagic trip produced 2 Wilson’s Storm-petrel, 60 European Storm-petrels, 15 Cory’s Shearwaters, 2 Great Shearwaters, 9 Sooty Shearwaters, a Balearic Shearwater, 7 Great Skuas, 100 Common Dolphin and Read more…
St. Mary’s – 3 Cory’s Shearwaters flew past Peninnis Head and the Lapwing and 8 Greenshanks were on Porth Hellick Pool. St. Martin’s – A Northern Wheatear and 2 Ravens. At sea – A European Storm-petrel, a Cory’s, a Great, 2 Sooty and 2 Balearic Shearwaters were seen from the Read more…
St. Mary’s – The Lapwing, a Common Sandpiper, a Dunlin, a Redshank and 10 Greenshanks. A Common Sandpiper was at Bar Point. Tresco – 12 Little Egrets, a Mediterranean Gull and a Northern Wheatear. At sea – 10 European Storm-petrels, a Cory’s, a Balearic, 4 Great & 7 Sooty Shearwaters Read more…
St. Mary’s – The Lapwing & Common Sandpiper were still on Porth Hellick Pool and 2 Green Sandpipers a Greenshank & a Redshank were on Lower Moors Pool. Bryher – 3 Dunlins, a Hooded Crow and the first Pied Flycatcher of the autumn. At sea – A Cory’s, a Great Read more…