Sunday (12/11) Waxwing – 1 in a garden in Old Town. Firecrest – 2 in Lower Moors at the Rosehill end. Siberian Chiffchaff – 1 in Lower Moors at the Rosehill end. Wigeon – 1 0n Shooters’ Pool. Kingfisher – 1 in Old Town Bay. Merlin – 1 over the Sunnyside Farm Trail. Swallow – 2 late Read more…
HEADLINE NEWS ***CAPE MAY WARBLER*** – 1 was found on Bryher on Friday (photos). See below for further details. Monday (06/11) Waxwing – The 2 birds feeding on apples at the Moorwell Allotments were joined by a third bird. Purple Sandpiper – 1 roosting on rocks in Porth Hellick Bay. Golden Plover – 1 Read more…
Wednesday (01/11) GREY-CHEEKED THRUSH – 1 was still present in the fields at the bottom of Rocky Hill. Little Bunting – 1 still in afield along Sandy Lane and 1 still near the fire station at New Grimsby, Tresco, Red-breasted Flycatcher – 1 in Holy Vale. Wigeon – 1 on Porth Hellick Pool. Golden Read more…
Saturday (28/10) GREY-CHEEKED THRUSH – 1 was still present in the field at the bottom of Rocky Hill. PADDYFIELD WARBLER –1 showed briefly at Porth Hellick just inside the gate at the seaward end of the boardwalk. Red-breasted Flycatcher – 1 on the Porth Hellick Loop Trail. Glossy Ibis – 1 on the main Read more…
Wednesday (25/10) More non-bird headlines the AMERICAN PAINTED LADY was still in a field on Sandy Lane and another was found dead in Trench Lane, Old Town. This is the 6th Scilly Record and the 3rd in the last 4 days. Hume’s Warbler – A “very probable” at Cove Vean, St. Agnes. Dusky Warbler –1 still Read more…
Sunday (22/10) More non-bird headlines 2 more GREEN DARNERS, both on St, Agnes, constituting the 5th & 6th for Scilly and the 8th & 9th for Britain. Also seen was an AMERICAN PAINTED LADY at Content (the 4th for Scilly) and 2 more MIGRATORY LOCUSTS in field s below the airport, an amazing mixture of American and African species. The Read more…
PELAGIC NEWS: A review of all photographs taken off Scilly of claimed Scopoli’s Shearwaters has revealed that the total of confirmed Scopoli’s was 28! Considering thar there were only 3 British Records (2 of which were from Scilly) before July 2023, this an astounding figure. All bar 1 were in the period July 28th to August Read more…
Monday (16/10) Red-eyed Vireo – 1 in scrub between Apple Tree Glade and Watch Hill, Bryher (photo). Radde’s Warbler – 1 calling and showing occasionally by the recycling bins on the Garrison Campsite. Glossy Ibis – 1 around St. Mary’s favouring the area around the plastic covered field between Carreg Dhu and Parting Carn Cattle Read more…
Saturday (14/10) Pallid Harrier – The juvenile flew over the Shooting Club on the Garrison, then over Hugh Town, where it landed at Shooters’ Pool (photo) for a couple of hours before flying over Old Town, (over Peninnis Head and out to sea. Wison’s Snipe – A bird photographed at Porth Hellick Read more…
Tuesday (10/10) Richard’s Pipit – 1 or 2 around St. Mary’s 1 at end of Barnaby Lane, St. Agnes. And 1 on Bryher. Glossy Ibis – 1 still in field in the polythene covered field between Carreg Dhu and Parting Carn before flying to the field at the junction to Green Farm/ Read more…