Monday The Lesser Kestrel was at Porth Hellick Down, a Merlin was on the Garrison and an Osprey was on St. Martin’s. The Hoopoe was still at Carn Friars, the Snow Bunting was again on Holgate’s Green and the Short-eared Owl was ranging from Old Town to Trewince. A Great Northern Diver was in Read more…
Saturday The Lesser Kestrel was still on Porth Hellick Down, a Common Buzzard was over Tresco and a Hooded Crow was at Higher Town, St. Martin’s. 2 Willow Warbler were at Porth Hellick & 1 was in Lower Moors, 2 Redwing were on the Garrison and the Snow Bunting was still on Read more…
It looks like the 2 Chough may have gone, there have been no reports since Thursday 26/03, let’s hope they are prospecting on one of the uninhabited Eastern Islands. Tuesday The Lesser Kestrel was still at Porth Hellick Down and a Snow Bunting was near Tregarthen’s Hotel Read more…
There have been no reports of the 2 Chough since Thursday 26/03 Friday The Lesser Kestrel was seen at Porth Hellick Down & Deep Point, a Great Northern Diver was at Porthloo and 2 Sandwich Tern were on buoys in Hugh Town Harbour. A Greenland Wheatear was at Porth Hellick and Read more…
Monday – The Lesser Kestrel was still in the Porth Hellick Down, Deep Point area and the 2 Chough were seen flying past Porthloo. 5 Golden Plover, a Merlin & 10 Wheatear were on the Airfield. 2 Manx Shearwater were seen from The Scillonian III, a Great Skua flew past Deep Point and a Black-tailed Read more…
Thursday – The Lesser Kestrel was still on Porth Hellick Down. Around 30 Sand Martins were on St.Mary’s and single Swallow were seen at Longstone & Porth Hellick. A Firecrest and a Siskin were at Longstone. Friday – The Lesser Kestrel and a Woodcock were still on Porth Hellick Down. Saturday – The Lesser Kestrel was still on Porth Read more…
Monday 16/03 The adult male LESSER KESTREL was still on Porth Hellick Down and was seen on a post at Carn Friars , the 2 Chough flew from Giant’s Castle towards Porth Hellick and the first Wheatear of the tear were seen, 2 on Porth Hellick Read more…
Wednesday 11th A Great Northern Diver was in Town Bay and a Jack Snipe was flushed from a field at Porth Hellick. On Bryher there were 3 Grey Plover and 6 Great Northern Diver offshore. Also seen were 10 Linnet which on Scilly tend to be the avian harbingers of Read more…
On St. Mary’s the 2 Chough, the Black-necked Grebe and a few Black Restart were present throughout. The ring-tailed Hen Harrier that has been around all winter put in intermittent appearances on the island and there were sporadic reports of Read more…
Apologies for the lack of sightings! A lot of our committee members have been away for the winter. Key highlights include: The pair of Chough have been present the whole winter and have been seen roaming between Peninnis and Toll’s Read more…