Monday (08/02) Kumlien’s Gull – 1 was found at Morning Pont Cattle Egret – 4 still in a field opposite Parting Carn Eider – 1 Bar Point Golden Plover – 1 over Longstone Glaucous Gull – 1 again on the bird table in the garden behind Star Castle Iceland Gull – 2 Porthloo, 1 Morning Point Read more…
Monday (01/02) Cattle Egret – 4 Longstone Whimbrel – 1 Great Bay, St. Martin’s Purple Sandpiper – 10 Great Bay, St. Martin’s Glaucous Gull – 1 again on the bird table in the garden behind Star Castle Iceland Gull – 2 Porthloo Raven – 2 Bull’s Porth, St. Martin’s Tuesday (02/02) Cattle Egret – 4 Longstone Great Read more…
Monday (25/01) Fin Whale – 1 off blue Carn and the off Peninnis, 2 seen of Carn Wethers, St. Martin’s Humpback Whale –1 still near Samson Cattle Egret – 2 Longstone and 2 in the chicken field at Parting Carn (photo) Eider – 1 Skirt Island, Tresco Common Scoter – 3 NNE of the Eastern Read more…
Monday (18/01) Fin Whale – 2 off Peninnis Cattle Egret – 4 Longstone Mediterranean Gull – 10 below Tregarthen’s Car Park Glaucous Gull – 1 again in a garden behind the Star Castle which then flew towards Porth Cressa Iceland Gull – 1 also in the same garden behind the Star Castle later with another Read more…
Monday (11/01) Cattle Egret – 2 Longstone Whimbrel – 1 Pendrathen Bar-tailed Godwit – 12 Pendrathen Woodcock – 1 by the Telegraph Radio mast Mediterranean Gull – 1 Morning Point on the Garrison Glaucous Gull – 1 in a garden behind Star Castle Iceland Gull – 2 Porthloo Merlin – 1 over Carn Thomas, Hugh Town Tuesday (12/01) Read more…
Wednesday (06/01) Humpback Whale – 1 off the west side of Peninnis, it or another in the Roads Cattle Egret – 2 Longstone Common Scoter – 3 in Crow sound Spoonbill – 1 flew over Hugh Town Harbour then Old Town Bay and then at Porth Hellick, 1 Samson Common Sandpiper – 1 Little Porth Read more…
Friday (01/01) Humpback Whale – 1 between Annet and Samson Finn Whale – 4 off Deep Point, 1 south of Peninnis Head, then in Porth Cressa Bay Cattle Egret – 4 still at Longstone Siberian Pink-footed Goose – 1 on Porth Hellick Pool Russian White-fronted Goose – 1 on Porth Hellick Pool , both this and the Read more…
Sunday (27/12) Little Bunting – 1 still at the Dump Allotments Great Northern Diver – 1 Porth Cressa Whimbrel – 3 in Bread and Cheese Cove, St. Martin’s Woodcock – 1 Lower Moors Iceland Gull – 2 Porthloo Great Spotted Woodpecker – 1 Porth Hellick Loop Yellow-browed Warbler – 1 Porth Hellick Loop Siberian Chiffchaff – 2 Shooters’ Read more…
Wednesday (23/12) Very few birds reported and a day of foul weather Little Bunting – 1 still in the Dump allotments Great Northern Diver – 1 Perpitch Bay & 1 Higher Town Bay, both St. Martin’s Iceland Gull – 1 Porthloo, 1 flew over Bay View Terrace (opposite Porth Mellon Industrial Estate) Redpoll – Read more…
Saturday (19/12) Fin Whale – 1 off Giant’s Castle Cattle Egret – 4 Rowesfield, Tresco Red-throated Diver – 1 flew past Giant’s Castle Great Northern Diver – 1 Porth Cressa, 1 flew past Giant’s Castle, 1 Great Bay, St. Martin’s Sooty Shearwater – 2 flew past Giant’s Castle Manx Shearwater – 2 flew past Giant’s Read more…