Friday’s birds were: St. Mary’s – 4 Dunlins & a Green Sandpiper were at Porth Hellick Pool and 6 Sandwich Terns were at Bar Point. Bryher – 28 Ringed Plover and 3 Willow Warblers. Inter-island waters – A Mediterranean Gull, 10 Common and 6 Sandwich Terns were in Tresco Channel. Read more…
There was an islands-wide influx of Wheatears with lots of birds on most headlands. St. Mary’s – Yesterday’s Pectoral Sandpiper at Porth Hellick Pool was briefly joined by a second bird which had earlier been seen on Tresco and at Lower Moors, also at Porth Hellick were 10 Greenshanks, 2 Read more…
St. Mary’s – 2 Whinchats, a Spotted & a Pied Flycatcher were on Peninnis, single Pied Flycatchers were at Longstone & Holy Vale and 2 more Whinchats were in Lower Moors. 9 Greenshanks were at Porth Hellick Pool. St. Agnes – There were signs of wader movement with 7 Sanderlings, Read more…
Friday’s birds were: Bryher – 7 Cory’s Shearwaters flew past Shipman Head. At sea – 4 Cory’s & 8 Balearic Shearwaters, 15 European Storm-petrels and 2 Grey Phalaropes were seen from the Scillonian III on the evening crossing from St. Mary’s to Penzance. Saturday’s birds were: St. Mary’s – A Read more…
Thursday’s birds were: St. Mary’s – The Western Bonelli’s Warbler was seen again in the pines halfway along Sandy Lane. St. Martin’s – A Dowitcher sp. was reported flying from White Island to Teän, present for a second day. At sea – An evening pelagic trip 7 miles SE of Read more…
Wednesday’s birds were: St. Mary’s – A Mediterranean Gull was at Porthcressa. At sea – A Pomarine Skua was seen from the Scillonian III on the evening crossing from St. Mary’s to Penzance. Thursday’s birds were: St. Agnes – A Green Sandpiper and a Whimbrel. Tresco – The Common Buzzard Read more…
St. Mary’s – 12 Greenshanks, 3 Green Sandpipers, a Water Rail, 2 Pied Flycatchers and a Spotted Flycatcher were at Porth Hellick. 8 Wheatears were on Peninnis and 3 were on the airfield. St. Agnes – A Green Sandpiper, a Common Sandpiper, a Dunlin and a Mediterranean Gull. St. Martin’s Read more…
FEA’S PETREL – 1 seen by birders returning to the mainland on the Scillonian. It was seen 57 minutes out of St. Mary’s and hence was in Scillonian waters.
SORA RAIL – 1 still on the Great Pool, Tresco.
Short-toed Lark – 1 still on St. Agnes.
Rose-coloured Starling – 1around Buzza Hill and another still on St. Agnes.
Spotted Crake – 1 still in Lower Moors.
Red-backed Shrike – 1 on Bryher. (more…)
St. Mary’s – Both the Buff-breasted Sandpiper & the Dotterel were still on the airfield and the Lapland Bunting & a Whinchat were on Peninnis. St. Agnes – A juvenile Rose-coloured Starling, a Wryneck and a Pied Flycatcher. At sea – A Sooty Shearwater was seen from the Scillonian on Read more…
St. Mary’s – The first-winter Bonaparte’s Gull was again in Porthcressa Bay briefly and an American Golden Plover and 2 Whimbrels flew over Hugh Town. The Buff-breasted Sandpiper was still on the airfield and was joined by a juvenile Dotterel. The Lapland Bunting was still on Peninnis and a Wryneck Read more…