Sightings

Tuesday’s birds were:

St. Mary’s – There was an influx of Common Swifts with 25+ at Telegraph.

Bryher – A Common Swift and a Lesser Whitethroat.

St. Agnes – A Whimbrel and 3 Common Swifts.

Wednesday’s birds were:

St. Mary’s – A Hobby was over the island and a White Wagtail was at Old Town.

Bryher – The Lesser Whitethroat was still on the island.

Tresco – 3 Common Swifts.

At sea – A Wilson’s Storm-petrel was seen from the Research Vessel “Celtic Explorer” 86 miles SW of St. Agnes, yes, it was in the Scilly recording area! (more…)

Sunday’s birds were:

St. Mary’s – A Hobby was at Porth Hellick and a Lesser Redpoll was at Shooters’ Pool, Lower Moors.

Bryher – A Hooded Crow.

At sea – A Sooty Shearwater, 40+ European Storm-petrels and a Great Skua were seen on the evening short-range pelagic trip.

There were no reports on Monday or Tuesday.

Wednesday’s birds were:

At sea – A Balearic Shearwater and 2 European Storm-petrels were seen from the Scillonian III on the morning crossing from Penzance to St. Mary’s.

Thursday’s birds were:

St. Agnes – A Hobby.

Tresco – 2 Common Pochards and a Common Swift.

St. Martin’s – A Raven. (more…)

Tuesday’s birds were:

St. Mary’s – The 2 Night Herons were still at Porth Hellick.

St. Martin’s – A first-summer male Red-footed Falcon was seen at Bread and Cheese Cove, near the Daymark.

Tresco – 3 Common Pochards, a Common Buzzard and 4 Swift.

Wednesday’s bird, the only report was from

St. Mary’s – A Hobby was seen at Porth Hellick.

Thursday’s birds were:

St. Mary’s – The 2 Night Herons were seen in Holy Vale at 06:50.

Tresco – A Grey Plover, 2 Dunlin’s, 5 Whimbrels and a White Wagtail.

Annet – 280+ Manx Shearwaters were seen offshore.

At sea – 20+ European Storm-petrels and 2 Great Skuas were seen on the evening short-range pelagic trip. (more…)

Saturday’s birds were: St. Mary’s – The Night Heron flew from Porth Hellick towards Holy Vale and a Marsh Harrier flew over Porth Hellick. 3 Turtle Doves were near the dump and 2 European Storm-petrels were trapped and ringed at Read more…

Thursday’s birds were: St Mary’s – a fist-summer male Red-footed Falcon flew over the airfield and was relocated in the Salakee Downs/Giant’s Castle area where it spent the rest of the day. At times it was in the air with Read more…

Tuesdays Birds were: St Mary’s  – The Night Heron was still in Carn Friars/Porth Hellick area in the morning and later on three birds were present there. 2 Lesser Redpolls were at Porth Hellick. St Agnes – The Short-toed Lark Read more…

Saturday’s birds were: St. Mary’s – The female Little Bittern was still in Lower Moors and a Honey Buzzard flew over Parting Carn at 07:50. Tresco – A Great Northern Diver, 3 Common Pochards, 5 Whimbrels and Swifts. Sunday’s birds Read more…

Thursday’s birds were: St. Mary’s – The female Little Bittern, a Golden Oriole and a Lesser Redpoll were at Lower Moors. The Woodchat Shrike was still on Porth Hellick Down and then flew to fields behind the hides at Porth Read more…

Sunday’s birds were:

St. Mary’s – The female Little Bittern was still on Lower Moors Pool.

St. Agnes – 4 Whimbrels, a Common Redstart and a Lesser Whitethroat.

Bryher – A real Scilly rarity – a Yellowhammer! (more…)

Thursday’s birds were:

St. Mary’s – The female Little Bittern was still on the pool at Lower Moors and the Night Heron flew from the reeds at 21:20. A Whinchat was on Peninnis, a Hooded Crow was on the Golf Course, an Osprey was seen from MacFarland’s Down and a Hobby was over Porth Hellick.

Bryher – A Golden Oriole, a magnificent full summer Grey Plover, a Whinchat, 12 Spotted Flycatchers and 14 Common Whitethroats.

St. Martin’s – A Golden Plover, a Hobby and probably the same Osprey that was seen from MacFarland’s Down.

Tresco – A Common Buzzard.

Inter-island waters – A Great Northern Diver was seen from the Scillonian III off the Eastern Isles. Another 15 Great Northern Divers, 5 Common Terns and 450+ Manx Shearwaters were seen on the ‘Shearwater Special’ trip in the evening. (more…)