St Mary’s – A juvenile Red-backed Shrike & a Pied Flycatcher were in Lower Moors, 8 Greenshanks, a Common & a Green Sandpiper were at Porth Hellick Pool, 2 Pied Flycatchers were in Holy Vale and another was in a garden on high Lanes. Bryher – The Short-toed Lark was Read more…
St. Mary’s – A Tree Pipit was on the Golf Course. Bryher – The Short-toed Lark and 5 Wheatears were on Shipman Head Down. Tresco – 2 Green Sandpipers, 14 Greenshanks, 5 Redshanks and a Black-tailed Godwit were on the pools. 37 Cory’s Shearwaters, a Great Shearwater, and a Pomarine Read more…
St. Mary’s – 2 Green Sandpipers and a Common Snipe were in Lower Moors. Bryher – The Short-toed Lark and the juvenile Dotterel were still on Shipman Head Down. Tresco – A Purple Heron flew over Abbey Gardens, also on the island were 5 Sanderlings. At sea – Birds seen Read more…
St. Mary’s – A female Common Redstart and 2 Crossbills were along the Dead Pine Walk on the Garrison. At sea – A daytime pelagic trip produced 2 Cory’s, 12 Great & 20 Manx Shearwaters, 150 European Storm-petrels and 3 Great Skuas. 3 Cory’s Shearwaters, 20 European Storm-petrels, a Great Read more…
Bryher – The Short-toed Lark and the juvenile Dotterel were still on Shipman Head Down. At sea – Birders on the evening pelagic trip saw a Cory’s Shearwater a Great Shearwater, 200 European Storm-petrels, 2 Great Skuas, 5 Arctic Terns, 50 Common Dolphins, 3 Blue Sharks and 2 Ocean Sunfish. Read more…
St. Mary’s – A Sooty, a Balearic & 5 Cory’s Shearwaters and 2 Great Skuas flew past Peninnis and another Cory’s Shearwater flew past Deep Point. Samson – 20 Curlews and 12 Sanderlings. Teän – 90 Curlews. At sea – A Balearic & 4 Great Shearwaters were seen from Read more…
St. Mary’s – The 6 Greenland White-fronted Geese were on Porth Hellick Pool and nearby the Little Ringed Plover was on the beach before returning to Lower Moors. Tresco – The 3 Ring-necked Ducks, a Tufted Duck & a Pochard were all still on the Great Pool. There was a Read more…
St. Mary’s – 9 Greenshank and a dunlin at Porth Hellick Pool, Greenshank at Old Town, 8 Wheatear on the airfield & 4 on Peninnis, 3 Pied Wagtail at Porthcressa and a Pied Flycatcher at Tremelethen. Elsewhere, 2 Grey Phalaropes were on the sea between the Garrison and St. Agnes. Read more…
St. Mary’s – *LESSER YELLOWLEGS* still at Porth Hellick Pool. Also Ruff, 6 Greenshank, 1 Green & 2 Common Sandpipers and an adult & juvenile Water Rail. 2 Mediterranean Gulls at Porthloo and Nightingale, 2 Pied & 4 Spotted Flycatchers on the Garrison. Whinchat & Wheatear on Peninnis At sea – Read more…
There is now a facility on BirdTrack for observers to submit their sightings from the Scillonian crossings. There are two new sites for Cornwall which are “At sea: Penzance to St Mary’s” and “At sea: Penzance to Wolf Rock”, and two new sites for Scilly “ At sea: St Mary’s Read more…