Alan Hannington

The Gyr was seen again on Tresco on  7th March and there was also the first Wheatear of the year there. A Spoonbill was on Bryher on the 8th. There are currently up 10 Firecrests on St. Agnes.

St Mary’s – Golden Plover (3) on airfield and Kingfisher at Porth Hellick pool (Thanks J.Pender)

Apologies for the lack of recent reports. Relatively quiet as to be expected over the last few months with one or two exceptions:   Up to 5 Short- eared Owls and a Long-tailed Duck through out on Tresco. Still good numbers of winter thrushes around the islands including a few Read more

Tresco – 8 Pochard, 1 female Tufted Duck, 4 Wigeon, 150+ Redwing, 7+ Lapwing, 2 Grey Plover, 12+ Fieldfare, 57 Coot, 136 Black-headed Gulls, 3 Dunlin, 83 Sanderling, 58 Turnstone, BLACK DUCK, Long-tailed Duck, 2 Pintail, Sparrowhawk, Great Northern Diver, 12 Redshank & 6 Greenshank. Elsewhere, Black-throated Diver and fem. Read more

St Mary’s – Balearic Shearwater flew East past Porth Hellick Bay at 12.05hrs and c40 Lapwing over Porth Hellick area. There seemed to be fewer Redwings and Fieldfare about today

Tresco – BLACK DUCK  again briefly on Abbey Pool. Also Long-tailed Duck, 3 Shoveler (2 male 1 fem) and Canada Goose. Six Short-eared Owls between Pentle Bay and the Woodpile.1 Dunlin on the beach at Pentle and 8+Great Northern Divers off shore. Mistle Thrush and Sparrowhawk Pool Road. 3 Pochard (2 male 1 fem), Read more

Sunday 17th January 2010 – 2 Spoonbill still on Samson, 3 Slav Grebes from Innisidgen and Black Redstart at Old Town beach. Friday 15th January 2010 – Mistle Thrush on the Golf Course, lots of Redwings everywhere, plenty of Fieldfare ( ie. 14 on the Primary School Playing field ). Read more

Thursday 7th Flocks of Fieldfare and Lapwing are still arriving on the islands and Redwing seem to be popping up from every verge – still no snow. Friday 8th The Black Duck was on Tresco early in the day then flew over Porth Mellon towards Lower Moors at 9.15am but Read more

HAPPY NEW YEAR! Friday 1st The Black-necked Grebe was on the Bryher side of Tresco Channel today and the Black Duck was again seen on the Abbey Pool and one of the Short-eared Owls was also in the Pentle Bay area. At Porth Hellick the Siberian Chiffchaff reappeared as did Read more

Wednesday 30th A visit to Tresco found little change with the Black Duck and the Long-tailed Duck on the Abbey Pool and two Short-eared Owls were again in the Pentle Bay area. A Sparrowhawk was in Lower Moors and a male Merlin zipped past Porth Loo. Thursday 31st A very Read more