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
A sunny greeting from the St Agnes Greenish Warbler just minutes off the boat this morning plus bonus shady farewell @ISBG_Scilly @scillyboating pic.twitter.com/PVe2Z70eru
— Jim Almond (@ShropsBirder) 9 October 2018
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…)
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…)
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…)
Whether close up on the Pittosporum or distant against the bracken, I could have watched the St Agnes Red-backed Shrike all day (and nearly did!) @ISBG_Scilly @scillyboating pic.twitter.com/EgSu2kZk40
— Jim Almond (@ShropsBirder) 9 October 2018
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…)
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…)
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…)
Scilly: Juv. Red backed Shrike on Castella Down, St Agnes today. pic.twitter.com/P6d5iWlvcA
— Beachy Birder (@BEACHYBIRDER) 5 October 2018
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…)
A selection from Thursday’s log call:
Tawny Pipit – 1 Bryher.
Wilson’s Snipe – A possible in Lower Moors.
Pectoral Sandpiper – 1 on the Great Pool, Tresco.
Buff-breasted Sandpiper – 1 in a field at Telegraph before flying to the Golf Course.
Rose-coloured Starling – A juvenile on St. Martin’s.
Common Rosefinch – 1 Bryher. (more…)
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…)