BIRD REPORTS
Thursday 13th August 2009 IoS Bird Reports
St Mary’s – *LESSER YELLOWLEGS* still at Porth Hellick Pool at 06.30hrs from Stephen Sussex Hide.
St Mary’s – *LESSER YELLOWLEGS* still at Porth Hellick Pool at 06.30hrs from Stephen Sussex Hide.
St Mary’s – *LESSER YELLOWLEGS* this afternoon at Porth Hellick Pool and showing well. Also 2 Common Sandpipers, 2 Greenshank and 3 Common Swift. MELODIOUS WARBLER at Porth Minnack by coastal track again today tho elusive. Thirty Sandwich Terns Porth Hellick Bay and Mediterranean Gull Porthloo Scilly Pelagics – Storm-petrel (45) Read more…
St Mary’s – MELODIOUS WARBLER at Porth Minnack by coastal track briefly at 11.30hrs and again this afternoon tho elusive. Med Gull (ad) again at Porthloo this morning. Scilly Pelagics – *WILSONS STORM PETREL* from pelagic this evening. Also Balearic Shearwater, Storm Petrel (15) and Manx Shearwater (2).
St. Mary’s – Juvenile Mediterranean Gull on Taylor’s Island, Porthloo. Also Common Sandpiper at Porthloo and Greenshank at Porth Hellick Tresco – 15 Grey Herons, Pintail and Common Sandpiper reported today
St Mary’s – Adult Med Gull still at Porthloo Scilly Pelagic – All day pelagic produced 2 Great, 2 Balearic & 10 Manx Shearwaters, 1 Arctic & 10 Great Skuas, 4 Arctic Terns, a Puffin , 70 European Storm-petrels, 4 Ocean Sunfish and 2 Blue Sharks were caught, tagged and Read more…
St. Mary’s – No sign of Marsh Sandpiper at Porth Hellick today but Green Sandpiper still. Adult & juvenile Med Gulls at Taylor’s Island, Porthloo. St Agnes – Northern Wheatear on island today Scilly Pelagic – All day pelagic produced – 2 *WILSONS STORM-PETREL*, 50 European Storm-petrels, 1 Balearic, 4 Great & Read more…
St Mary’s – **MARSH SANDPIPER** still at Porth Hellick Pool at 0830hrs and showing well. Also Green Sandpiper at Porth Hellick and adult Mediterranean Gull on Taylor’s Island, Porthloo. Bryher – Greenshank (2) on island today Scilly Pelagics – Evening pelagic/sharking trip on The Sapphire – *WILSON’S STORM-PETREL*, 2 Great Shearwaters, Great Read more…
St Mary’s – **MARSH SANDPIPER** still at Porth Hellick Pool today and showing well, also Green Sandpiper (3). *GREAT-WHITE EGRET* flew over Lower Moors and then out into The Roads towards Tresco at 16.45hrs but no further sign since.
St. Mary’s – **MARSH SANDPIPER** still at Porth Hellick Pool today. Adult and juvenile Mediterranean Gulls still at on Taylor’s Island, Porthloo. Also Swift over St. Marys. Tresco – Med Gull, Swift (5), Greenshank (6), Redshank, Dunlin, Sanderling and a Pochard on island today
There is now a facility on BirdTrack for observers to submit their sightings from the Scillonian crossings. There are two new sites for Cornwall which are “At sea: Penzance to St Mary’s” and “At sea: Penzance to Wolf Rock”, and two new sites for Scilly “ At sea: St Mary’s Read more…