Latest bird sightings from the Islands
St. Agnes – 20 Sanderling, 2 Common Sandpiper and a Dunlin. Tresco – A Dunlin and a Sunfish north of the island. Samson – The Spoonbill was still present. Teän – A Whimbrel, 60+ Curlew and a Greenshank. There were still at least 4 Basking Shark in inter-island waters. Birders Read more…
St. Mary’s – A Whimbrel at Bar Point, a Mediterranean Gull at Porthloo, a Cuckoo at Giant’s Castle, a wheatear on Peninnis and 5 Greenshank, a Green & 6 common Sandpipers at Porth Hellick. Tresco – 14 Little Egret, a Marsh Harrier and 2 Common Sandpiper. Samson – The Spoonbill Read more…
St. Mary’s – A Kingfisher, a juvenile Cuckoo, 3+ Crossbill, a Green and 5 Common Sandpipers at Porth Hellick. A Wood Sandpiper briefly in the afternoon at Lower Moors. An evening pelagic trip produced a Wilson’s Storm-petrel, a Sooty Shearwater and an Arctic Skua.
St. Mary’s – 7 Greenshank, 6 Common, 5 Green & 2 Wood Sandpipers on Porth Hellick Pool, a Common Sandpiper by the quay and 2 Green Sandpipers on a pool behind the dump. Samson – The spoonbill was still present,
St. Mary’s – 7 Common Sandpiper & 2 Green Sandpiper at Porth Hellick and 2 Mediterranean Gulls at Porthloo. A Balearic Shearwater and a European Storm-petrel were seen from the Scillonian on the morning crossing from Penzance to St. Mary’s. Birders on a evening pelagic trip saw just 30 European Read more…
St. Mary’s – 4 Common Sandpiper, a Green Sandpiper and 6 Greenshank. 2 Mediterranean Gulls at Porthloo. St. Agnes – A Common Sandpiper, 10 Turnstone and 2 Whimbrel. Gugh – 3 Common Sandpiper. Bryher – An Arctic Tern.
St. Mary’s – An adult Mediterranean Gull at Porthloo. St. Agnes – 4 Green Sandpiper, a Common Sandpiper and 30+ Rock Pipit feeding on a newly cleared edge of the Big Pool. Tresco – 8 Little Egret and 17 Grey Heron. Bryher – A Common Sandpiper, 8 Redshank, 1 Greenshank, Read more…
St. Mary’s – A Common Sandpiper by the quay, a Marsh Harrier & a Green Sandpiper at Porth Hellick and 2 adult Mediterranean Gulls on Taylor’s Island, Porthloo. Two Manx Shearwaters and 26 Storm petrels ringed overnight at Peninnis Head. One of the Stormies was a control with a Museum Read more…
St. Mary’s – A Green Sandpiper, a Common Sandpiper and 7 Greenshank at Porth Hellick. A Basking Shark was seen off Peninnis. Samson – The Spoonbill still present. Annet – European-storm Petrel (15) trapped and ringed from on-board The Sapphire just off Annet overnight. Over 100 birds around the boat Read more…
St. Mary’s – 2 Green Sandpiper, a Common Sandpiper and 6 Greenshank at Porth Hellick. The daytime pelagic produced a Grey Phalarope, a Sooty shearwater, 5 Manx Shearwater, 40+ European Storm-petrel and 3 Great Skua. Also on the trip 6 Harbour Porpoise, a Bottle-nose Dolphin, a minke Whale & an Read more…