St. Mary’s – 9 Greenshanks, 2 Common Sandpipers & a White Wagtail were on Porth Hellick Pool and a Cory’s Shearwater flew past Porth Hellick Down. St. Agnes – 4 Black-tailed Godwits and a flypast Cory’s Shearwater. Pelagic trip – A daytime birders special logged a Wilson’s Storm-petrel, 200+ European Read more…
Pelagic trip – The highlights of the daytime birder special were : a Wilson’s Storm Petrel, 15 European Storm Petrels, 13 Cory’s, 5 Great & 2 Balearic Shearwaters, an Arctic & 2 Great Skuas, 3 Common Scoters, a Sunfish, 2 Blue Sharks, 4 Harbour Porpoise and 20 Common Dolphins
Scillonian – A Sabine’s Gull, a Sooty Shearwater and 3 European Storm-petrels were seen on the crossing from Penzance to St. Mary’s. Pelagic trip – The birders special in the evening produced an incredible 200+ Cory’s Shearwaters, 40+ Great Shearwaters, 4 Sooty Shearwaters, 25 European Storm Petrels, 4 Great Skuas Read more…
Tresco – 6 Sanderlings, 2 Whimbrels, 2 Common Sandpipers and 17 Ringed Plovers. Bryher – A Common Swift. St. Agnes – A Whimbrel and a Common Swift. Annet – A Common Swift and 60+ Manx Shearwaters offshore. Samson – A Ruff. At sea – A Great Shearwater was seen from Read more…
St. Mary’s – A Whimbrel was at Telegraph. At sea – 2 Sooty Shearwaters were seen from the Scillonian
St. Mary’s – 8 Greenshanks, 2 Green Sandpipers and a Kingfisher were at Porth Hellick Pool. 2 Green Sandpipers were on the pool in Lower Moors. Tresco – A Kingfisher was on the Great Pool. St. Agnes – 6 Great & 2 Cory’s Shearwaters, a European Storm-petrel and 2 Great Read more…
St. Mary’s – The Hippolais warbler was seen again at Carn Friars and was identified as Melodious Warbler. 7 Greenshanks, 3 Green Sandpipers and a Kingfisher were at Porth Hellick. 4 Green Sandpipers were at Lower Moors. 133 European Storm-petrels and 2 Manx Shearwaters were ringed overnight at Deep Point. Read more…
Pelagic trip – 14 Cory’s & 3 Great Shearwaters, 40+ European Storm-petrels, a juvenile Little Gull, a Great Skua and an Arctic Skua. St. Mary’s – A Common Sandpiper was on Porth Hellick Pool. Tresco – 4 Whimbrels. Samson – A Whimbrel
Pelagic trip – A Great, 7 Cory’s & 30 Manx Shearwaters, a Wilson’s Storm-petrel, a Great Skua, 40 Common Dolphins, 5 Blue Sharks and superb views of a Leatherback Turtle. St. Mary’s – A Firecrest was on Lower Broome, the Garrison, a Crossbill flew over the Country Guest House at Read more…
Pelagic trip – A Cory’s & 10 Great Shearwaters, 30+ European Storm-petrels and 2 Blue Sharks were caught, tagged & released. St. Mary’s – 8 Greenshanks were on Porth Hellick Pool. St. Martin’s – A Mediterranean Gull