Alan Hannington

Thursday’s birds were:

St. Mary’s – The female Little Bittern was still on the pool at Lower Moors and the Night Heron flew from the reeds at 21:20. A Whinchat was on Peninnis, a Hooded Crow was on the Golf Course, an Osprey was seen from MacFarland’s Down and a Hobby was over Porth Hellick.

Bryher – A Golden Oriole, a magnificent full summer Grey Plover, a Whinchat, 12 Spotted Flycatchers and 14 Common Whitethroats.

St. Martin’s – A Golden Plover, a Hobby and probably the same Osprey that was seen from MacFarland’s Down.

Tresco – A Common Buzzard.

Inter-island waters – A Great Northern Diver was seen from the Scillonian III off the Eastern Isles. Another 15 Great Northern Divers, 5 Common Terns and 450+ Manx Shearwaters were seen on the ‘Shearwater Special’ trip in the evening. (more…)

Great Northern Divers,The Roads, (Joe Pender)

Sunday’s birds were:

St. Mary’s – The Little Bittern was still in Lower Moors and the Night Heron was seen there in the, flying from Shooters’ Pool towards the Dump Clump. The Western Bonelli’s Warbler was still in the hedge that runs from the Standing Stones Field to the field opposite Nowhere. A Dotterel was still on the Golf Course, a Merlin flew over Hugh Town harbour and a Grasshopper Warbler was trapped and ringed at Porth Hellick. A Golden Oriole was near Porthloo chalets and 11 Common Swifts were over Lower Moors in the evening.

St. Agnes – 4 Dunlins, 2 Turtle Doves, 2 Common Swifts, a Richard’s Pipit, a Ring Ouzel, a late Redwing, 3 Spotted Flycatchers, a Common Redstart, 6 Common Whitethroats and a Siberian Chiffchaff.

Bryher – A Grey Plover, a Nightingale was singing early morning and a Great White Egret flew south at 16:00.

Gugh – A Whinchat.

Tresco – 2 Grey Plovers and 9 Dunlins.

Teän – A Bar-tailed Godwit.

Inter-island Waters – 14 Great Northern Divers were in The Roads (more…)

Thursday’s birds were: St. Mary’s – The Little Bittern was still on Lower Moors Pool early morning and the Night Heron was seen on Shooters’ Pool at 07:15 and on the main pool in the evening before flying towards the Dump Clump. The Western Bonelli’s Warbler was in a hedge Read more…

Monday’s birds were: St. Mary’s – The Little Bittern and the Little Ringed Plover were still at Lower Moors. A Night Heron was seen several times in the Porth Hellick/Holy Vale area in the daytime and flew into Shooters’ Pool, Lower Moors late evening. Tuesday’s birds were: St. Mary’s – Read more…

Friday’s birds were: Tresco – The 2 Black-winged Stilts were still on the Great Pool and also on the island were 20 Ringed Plovers, a Greylag Goose and a Common Buzzard. St. Mary’s – The Short-toed Lark was still on Peninnis and the Little Bittern, which had not been seen Read more…

Tresco – The 2 Black-winged Stilts were still on the Great Pool and the first Lesser Whitethroat of the year was also on the island. St. Mary’s – The Short-toed Lark was still showing well on Peninnis, a Golden Oriole flew through Porth Hellick and a Ring Ouzel was on Read more…

St. Mary’s – The female Little Bittern was still in Lower Moors, where there were also 2 Whinchats. A Golden Oriole flew from Porth Hellick towards Porth Hellick House, a Pied Flycatcher was on the Garrison and the Short-toed Lark & a Ring Ouzel were still on Peninnis. St. Agnes Read more…

A few final pics from Bryher yesterday. pic.twitter.com/zYceiYEaHR — Lewis Thomson (@LT_FoD) 25 April 2017 Tresco – The 2 Black-winged Stilts were still on the Great Pool. St. Mary’s – The female Little Bittern was still in Lower Moors and a Short-toed Lark & a Ring Ouzel were on Peninnis. Read more…

Tresco – The 2 Black-winged Stilts that flew from Lower Moors yesterday were relocated on Simpson’s Field, where there were also 5 Common Sandpipers. A male Common Redstart was at New Grimsby, a Blue-headed Wagtail was with cattle in a field along Pool Road and 2 Common Pochard were on Read more…

St. Mary’s – The female Little Bittern at Lower Moors was joined briefly in the early evening by 2 Black-necked Stilts and a Blue-headed Wagtail. This was the first record of BW Stilts on Scilly since 2005, unfortunately they were only present for 12 minutes before flying off. 5 Ring Read more…