BIRD REPORTS
Sunday 28th June 2015 IoS Bird Sightings
St. Mary’s – a Tufted Duck was on Porth Hellick Pool. Tresco – 5 Grey Herons, 5 Little Egrets and a Black-headed Gull. Teän – 8 Curlews.
St. Mary’s – a Tufted Duck was on Porth Hellick Pool. Tresco – 5 Grey Herons, 5 Little Egrets and a Black-headed Gull. Teän – 8 Curlews.
St. Mary’s – A Crossbill flew over Porth Hellick and appeared to land in the Kittydown pines. Bryher – A Hobby.
St. Martin’s – The Purple Heron, a Hobby and 20+ Common Swifts. Bryher – The Common Crane was seen in the morning and the evening. Annet – 200+ Manx Shearwaters were offshore. Inter-island waters – A 2nd summer Mediterranean Gull was in The Roads. At sea – 2 European Storm-petrels, a Great Skua and 7 Ocean Sunfish.
St. Mary’s – 4 Common Swifts over the airport. St. Agnes – A Wheatear and 3 Tufted Ducks. Tresco – The drake American Wigeon was still on the Great Pool.
St. Mary’s – A drake Tufted Duck was on Porth Hellick Pool. St. Agnes – 6 Common Swifts. Annet – 40 Manx Shearwaters offshore. At sea – 25+ European Storm-petrels from a short-range pelagic trip.
Tresco – The pair of American Wigeons were still on the Great Pool. Bryher – The Common Crane flew over Hell Bay Hotel towards Castle Down on Tresco. The Hooded Crow was still present. Samson – 12 Curlews. Teän – 2 Curlews.
St. Martin’s – The Purple Heron flew over Great Bay towards Wine Cove.
St. Mary’s – A **CEDAR WAXWING** was seen on and off in a garden in Trench Lane for about 90 minutes. This is a the first record for Scilly and was probably the bird reported at Rosehill by a non-birder on Read more…