Friday (15/10) Monarch Butterfly – 1 flew over Porth Hellick Beach (photo). Spotted Sandpiper – Relocated at Watermill Cove. Dusky Warbler – 1 at Hugh House on the Garrison. Red-rumped Swallow – 1 ranging from Watermill to Peninnis showed regularly over Porth Hellick. Red-throated Read more…
Thursday (14/10) Spotted Sandpiper – 1 on rocks at the north end of Porthloo Beach (photo) and later moved to Toll’s Porth. Radde’s Warbler – 1 at Redan “D” the flew towards Morning Point, the Garrison. Red-throated Pipit – 1 flew from St. Read more…
Tuesday (12/10) Rustic Bunting – 1 still in the Longstone area. Little Bunting – 1 still on St. Martin’s in the fields behind the Cricket Pitch. Serin – 1 still at Parting Carn (photo). Red-breasted Flycatcher – 1 near the Seven Stones Inn, St. Martin’s. Short-toed Read more…
Wednesday (13/10) Rustic Bunting – 1 still in the Longstone area. Red-throated Pipit – 1 briefly in a same field as the Serin at Parting Carn (photo). Serin – 1 still in a field at Parting Carn. Common Rosefinch – 1 on seaweed at St.Warna’s Read more…
Rustic Bunting – 1 on the track to Longstone. Red-throated Pipit – 1 Castle Down, Tresco. Pectoral Sandpiper – 1 on the Great Pool, Tresco and 1 Porth Hellick Bay. Little Bunting – 1 at Higher Town, St. Martin’s and a “probable” flew low Read more…
Sunday (10/10) American Buff-bellied Pipit – There was an unconfirmed report of 1 on Toll’s Island, Pelistry. American Golden Plover – 1 commuting between Castle Down, Tresco and Shipman Head Down, Bryher. Pectoral Sandpiper – 1 on the Great Pool, Tresco. Little Bunting – Read more…
Friday (08/10) Pectoral Sandpiper – 1 still on Abbey Pool, Tresco. Sabine’s Gull – 1 seen from the Scillonian III on the morning crossing from Penzance to St. Mary’s. Spotted Crake – 1 seen briefly from the IOSBG Hide in Lower Moors. Red-breasted Read more…
Wednesday (06/10) Woodchat Shrike – The subspecies badius“Balearic” Shrike was still on Helvear. Pectoral Sandpiper – 2 on the Great Pool Red-breasted Flycatcher – 1 still in the Middle Town pines, St. Martin’s (photo). Common Rosefinch – 1 still at Porth Killier, St. Agnes. Dotterel – Read more…
Monday (04/10) American Buff-bellied Pipit – 1 still on St.Agnes. Woodchat Shrike – The subspecies badius“Balearic” Shrike was still on Helvear, another bird, a juvenile of the nominate race “Senator”, was at Little Arthur Farm, St. Martin’s. Pectoral Sandpiper – 2 still on Abbey Pool, Read more…
Sunday (03/10) American Buff-bellied Pipit – 1 at Saint Warna’s Cove, St. Agnes (photo) was the first American passerine on the islands this autumn. Woodchat Shrike – The subspecies badius “Balearic” Shrike was still on Helvear. Buff-breasted Sandpiper – 1 still on Shipman Head Down. Read more…