Saturday (01/10) Common Rosefinch – 1 on a log pile at Helvear and 1 in the house garden on Gugh. Yellow-browed Warbler – 1 possibly 2 at Higher Moors near the road, 1 in a field at the Bay end of Pelistry Lane and 1 in the Standing Stones Field, Lower Moors. Read more…
Wednesday (28/09) Common Rosefinch – 1 was still between the 2 quays on Bryher (photo) , with a second bird in the same place late afternoon. Wryneck – 1 still at Deep Point Quarry, 1 on the coastal path near Giant’s Castle and 1 at Longstone just before dusk. Nightingale – 1 flushed Read more…
Saturday (24/09) Spotted Crake – 1 on the Great Pool, Tresco. Cory’s Shearwater – 1 seen from the Scillonian III on the morning crossing from Penzance to St. Mary’s. Great Shearwater – 2 flew past Deep Point , 3 past White Island, St. Martin’s and 12 seen from the Scillonian III on the Read more…
Wednesday (21/09) Pectoral Sandpiper – 1 on the Great Pool, Tresco. Curlew Sandpiper – 2 flew past the Swarovski Hide on the Great Pool, Tresco. Wood Sandpiper – 1 on the Great Pool, Tresco. Merlin – 1 in Lower Moors. Wryneck – 1 on the Old Town side of Peninnis. Great Spotted Woodpecker – 1 calling Read more…
Sunday (18/09) Ortolan Bunting – 1 still on the airfield. Short-toed Lark – 1 still on the airfield. Wryneck – 1 at Porthloo Boat Park, 2 at Green Farm, 1 by the Great Pool, Tresco, 1 Cromwell’s Castle, Tresco, 1 at Borough Farm, Tresco and 1 at Gimble Porth, Tresco. Hen Harrier – A Read more…
Thursday (15/09) Western Bonelli’s Warbler – 1 was near the tennis courts on Bryher. Ortolan Bunting – 1 on the south turning circle on the airfield. Short-toed Lark – 1 on the south turning circle on the airfield. Nightingale – A very elusive bird was in the small quarry just inland of the Woolpack Read more…
Monday (12/09) Common Rosefinch – 1 still near the dump by tennis court on Bryher. Red-backed Shrike – 1 still behind the Horse Paddock field on Bryher and 1 at Borough Farm, Tresco. Wryneck – 1 on the path from Porth Cressa to Buzza Tower, 1 in the Standing Stones Field, Lower Moors, 1 Read more…
Thursday (08/09) Baird’s Sandpiper – The juvenile had moved to the Abbey Pool, Tresco (photo). Pectoral Sandpiper– 1 was still on the Great Pool, Tresco. Red-backed Shrike – The juvenile was still in fields along Carn Friars Farm Track. Spotted Crake – 1 on the Great Pool. Tresco. Ruff – 2 on the Great Pool, Read more…
Monday (05/09) A trip to Tresco proved to be a real Waderfest: a Baird’s Sandpiper & 2 Pectoral Sandpipers (photo) were showing from the Swarovski hide and across the 2 pools other birds seen 6 Ruff, 5 Little Stint (photo), 1 Knot, 7 Curlew Sandpiper, 1 Wood Sandpiper, 12 Green Sandpiper, 2 Common Sandpiper, 18 Dunlin, 39 Black-tailed Godwit, 12 Greenshank, 13 Redshank, 1 Whimbrel, 7 Snipe and 3Oystercatcher, Read more…
Thursday (01/09) Great White Egret – 1 flew high west over Porth Hellick Pool. Pectoral Sandpiper still on the Great Pool, Tresco. Red-backed Shrike – The juvenile was still in the maze orchard along Carn Friars Farm Track. Osprey – 1 over St. Agnes. Great Shearwater – 12 on a sharking/birding trip 3 miles southwest of Bishop Read more…