Tuesday (04/10) Greenish Warbler – A very mobile bird was around the Parsonage Garden, St. Agnes. Little Bunting – 1 still in the field next to the bakery on St. Martin’s (photo). Common Rosefinch – 1 still around the Sycamore tree in Peninnis Read more…
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 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 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. 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 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, 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 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 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 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, Read more…