Monday (10/10) Swainson’s Thrush – 1 still in Racket Town Cottage Garden, Tresco. American Buff-bellied Pipit – Carn Friars Farm in the field opposite the sign to Porth Hellick Down Burial chamber. Olive-backed Pipit – 1 in a field at Trenoweth. Short-toed Lark – 1 seen briefly at the bottom of Barnaby Lane, St. Read more…
Friday (07/10) Swainson’s Thrush – 1 still in Racket Town Cattage garden, Tresco. Greenish Warbler – 1 still in the Parsonage Garden, St. Agnes was very elusive. Little Bunting – 1 on the St, Agnes side of Gugh Bar flew towards Cove Vean, Common Rosefinch – 1 still in the Peninnis allotments. Cattle Egret – Read more…
Tuesday (04/10) Greenish Warbler – A very mobile bird was around the Parsonage Garden, St. Agnes. Little Bunting – 1 still in the field next to the bakery on St. Martin’s (photo). Common Rosefinch – 1 still around the Sycamore tree in Peninnis allotments and it or another briefly in a garden in Read more…
Saturday (01/10) Common Rosefinch – 1 on a log pile at Helvear and 1 in the house garden on Gugh. Yellow-browed Warbler – 1 possibly 2 at Higher Moors near the road, 1 in a field at the Bay end of Pelistry Lane and 1 in the Standing Stones Field, Lower Moors. Read more…
Wednesday (28/09) Common Rosefinch – 1 was still between the 2 quays on Bryher (photo) , with a second bird in the same place late afternoon. Wryneck – 1 still at Deep Point Quarry, 1 on the coastal path near Giant’s Castle and 1 at Longstone just before dusk. Nightingale – 1 flushed Read more…
Saturday (24/09) Spotted Crake – 1 on the Great Pool, Tresco. Cory’s Shearwater – 1 seen from the Scillonian III on the morning crossing from Penzance to St. Mary’s. Great Shearwater – 2 flew past Deep Point , 3 past White Island, St. Martin’s and 12 seen from the Scillonian III on the Read more…
Wednesday (21/09) Pectoral Sandpiper – 1 on the Great Pool, Tresco. Curlew Sandpiper – 2 flew past the Swarovski Hide on the Great Pool, Tresco. Wood Sandpiper – 1 on the Great Pool, Tresco. Merlin – 1 in Lower Moors. Wryneck – 1 on the Old Town side of Peninnis. Great Spotted Woodpecker – 1 calling Read more…
Sunday (18/09) Ortolan Bunting – 1 still on the airfield. Short-toed Lark – 1 still on the airfield. Wryneck – 1 at Porthloo Boat Park, 2 at Green Farm, 1 by the Great Pool, Tresco, 1 Cromwell’s Castle, Tresco, 1 at Borough Farm, Tresco and 1 at Gimble Porth, Tresco. Hen Harrier – A Read more…
Thursday (15/09) Western Bonelli’s Warbler – 1 was near the tennis courts on Bryher. Ortolan Bunting – 1 on the south turning circle on the airfield. Short-toed Lark – 1 on the south turning circle on the airfield. Nightingale – A very elusive bird was in the small quarry just inland of the Woolpack Read more…
Monday (12/09) Common Rosefinch – 1 still near the dump by tennis court on Bryher. Red-backed Shrike – 1 still behind the Horse Paddock field on Bryher and 1 at Borough Farm, Tresco. Wryneck – 1 on the path from Porth Cressa to Buzza Tower, 1 in the Standing Stones Field, Lower Moors, 1 Read more…