St. Mary’s – A Melodious Warbler showed well in the evening in the pines by the summerhouse at Longstone café. A Lapwing, a Dunlin, a Green Sandpiper, a Common Sandpiper, 9 Greenshanks and 25 Ringed Plovers were at Porth Hellick. Read more…
St. Mary’s – 600+ Cory’s and 200+ Great Shearwaters were flew past Giant’s Castle mid-afternoon. Teän – 2 Whimbrels and a Mediterranean Gull. Inter-island waters – A Mediterranean Gull was in Tresco Channel. At sea– A Wilson’s Storm-petrel, 19 European Read more…
At sea – The daytime pelagic trip continued to produce the birds with counts of 1 Wilson’s Storm-petrel, 30+ European Storm-petrels, 150+ Cory’s, 90+ Great, 50+ Sooty &3000+ Manx Shearwater and 13 Great Skuas. Seen in the water were a Read more…
St. Mary’s – A Spotted Redshank flew north over Porth Hellick Pool. At sea – 27 European Storm-petrels, 5 Cory’s, a Balearic, a Sooty & 3 Great Shearwaters and 20+ Common Dolphins were seen from the Scillonian III on the Read more…
St. Mary’s – 5 Common Sandpipers were on Porthcressa Beach. 10 Greenshanks, a Redshank, 2 Green Sandpipers and 4 Dunlins were on Porth Hellick Pool. 6 Green Sandpipers and a Common Snipe were on Lower Moors Pool. Bryher – A Read more…
St. Mary’s – 11 Greenshanks and a Redshank were on Porth Hellick Pool. Bryher – 8 Ringed Plover.
St. Agnes – A Whimbrel, a Common Sandpiper, a Black-tailed Godwit and 3 Northern Wheatears. At sea – There were 2 short-range pelagic trips the totals were: Daytime – 35 Cory’s, 17 Great, 1 Balearic. 31 Sooty and 500 Manx Read more…
St. Mary’s – A Common Sandpiper was on Porthloo Beach. At sea – 5 Great Shearwaters and 3 European Storm-petrels were seen from the Scillonian III on the crossing from Penzance to St. Mary’s. Shearwaters continued to perform – 150 Read more…
St. Mary’s – A Kingfisher was on Porth Hellick Pool. Bryher – A Dunlin. St. Martin’s – A Northern Wheatear. Inter-island waters– 2 Mediterranean Gulls were in Tresco Channel. At sea – A Cory’s, 34 Sooty, a Balearic and 2 Read more…
St. Mary’s – The first returning Northern Wheatear of the autumn was seen on Porth Hellick Down and a Mediterranean Gull was at Porthloo. St. Agnes – 10 Curlews a Turnstone and a Common Sandpiper were on Browarth. At sea Read more…