A dull blustery day across Scilly today. Birding was difficult but an obvious arrival of black redstarts, a common rosefinch on the edge of town, a showy Richard’s pipit, and the eastern yellow wagtail putting on a good show on Tresco kept everyone ticking over! #ScillyBirds pic.twitter.com/KGTYFpVuAK — Isles of Read more…

Friday 12th October 2018 IoS Bird Sightings

A selection from Friday’s log call:

Greenish Warbler – 1 still on St. Agnes.

Tawny Pipit – 1 Bryher.

Eastern Yellow Wagtail – 1 still on the Great Pool, Tresco.

Little Bunting 1behind the Post Office on St. Agnes.

Cattle Egret – 1 Great Pool, Tresco.

Barred Warbler – 1 Porth Hellick.

Bluethroat – 1 near Nag’s Head Rock, St. Agnes. (more…)

Thursday 11th October 2018 IoS Bird Sightings

A selection from Thursday’s log call:

Greenish Warbler – 1 still on St. Agnes.

Tawny Pipit – 1 Bryher.

Eastern Yellow Wagtail – 1 which was on the Great Pool and then Borough Farm, Tresco was sound recorded.

Red-throated Pipit – 1 heard on Peninnis.

Little Bunting – 1behind the Post Office on St. Agnes.

Richard’s Pipit – 1 on Peninnis moved to the Golf Course.

Cattle Egret – 9 Tresco.

Barred Warbler – 1 Porth Hellick. (more…)

Wednesday 10th October 2018 IoS Bird Sightings

A selection from Wednesday’s log call:

Greenish Warbler – 1 still on St. Agnes.

Tawny Pipit – 1 Bryher.

Eastern Yellow Wagtail – 1 Tresco.

Red-throated Pipit – 1 St. Martin’s

Little Bunting – 1 St. Agnes.

Richard’s Pipit – 1 St. Agnes.

Cattle Egret – 5 on Tresco and 4 Pelistry.

Rose-coloured Starling – A juvenile on St. Martin’s.

Common Rosefinch – 1 Bryher.

Barred Warbler – 1 Porth Hellick. (more…)

Tuesday 9th October 2018 IoS Bird Sightings

A selection from Tuesday’s log call:

Greenish Warbler – 1 still on St. Agnes.

Tawny Pipit – 1 Bryher.

Cattle Egret – 5 on Tresco.

Rose-coloured Starling – A juvenile on St. Martin’s.

Common Rosefinch – 1 High Lanes.

Barred Warbler – 1 Porth Hellick.

Red-backed Shrike – 1 St. Agnes. (more…)

Monday 8th October 2018 IoS Bird Sightings

A selection from Monday’s log call:

Greenish Warbler – 1 on St. Agnes.

Tawny Pipit – 1 Bryher.

Red-throated Pipit – 1 on St. Agnes.

Aquatic Warbler – A bird thought by some to be this species was very elusive in bracken at Porth Mellon.

Cattle Egret – 5 on Tresco.

Rose-coloured Starling – A juvenile on St. Martin’s.

Common Rosefinch – 1 Maypole and 1 Gugh.

Barred Warbler – 1 Porth Hellick. (more…)

Saturday 6th October 2018 IoS Bird Sightings

A selection from Saturday’s log call:

Tawny Pipit – 1 Bryher.

Wilson’s Snipe – A possible in Lower Moors.

Buff-breasted Sandpiper – 1 on the airfield.

Cattle Egret – 5 on the Great Pool, Tresco and 1 seen at several locations on St. Mary’s.

Rose-coloured Starling – 2 juveniles on St. Martin’s.

Barred Warbler – 1 Porth Hellick.

Red-backed Shrike – 1 St. Agnes. (more…)

Friday 5th October 2018 IoS Bird Sightings

A selection from Friday’s log call:

Tawny Pipit – 1 Bryher.

Wilson’s Snipe – A possible in Lower Moors

Buff-breasted Sandpiper – 1 on the airfield.

Glossy Ibis – 1 circled St. Agnes and landed briefly in the middle of the island before flying off northwest.

Cattle Egret – 6 on the Great Pool, Tresco.

Rose-coloured Starling – 2 juveniles on St. Martin’s.

Common Rosefinch – 2 Bryher.

Corncrake – 1 Bryher.

Red-backed Shrike – 1 St. Agnes. (more…)

Wednesday 3rd October 2018 IoS Bird Sightings

A selection from Wednesday’s log call:

Tawny Pipit – 1 Bryher.

Pectoral Sandpiper – 1 on the Great Pool, Tresco.

Rose-coloured Starling – A juvenile on St. Martin’s.

Melodious Warbler – 1 Lower Moors.

Common Rosefinch – 1 St. Agnes.

Whooper Swan – the first of the autumn made a brief stop on Porth Hellick Pool before settling on the Great Pool, Tresco.

 Spoonbill – 1 on Green Island, Samson.

Red-breasted Flycatcher – 1 on Pool Road, Tresco. (more…)