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…
Thursday (08/09) Baird’s Sandpiper – The juvenile had moved to the Abbey Pool, Tresco (photo). Pectoral Sandpiper– 1 was still on the Great Pool, Tresco. Red-backed Shrike – The juvenile was still in fields along Carn Friars Farm Track. Spotted Crake – 1 on the Great Pool. Tresco. Ruff – 2 on the Great Pool, Read more…
Monday (05/09) A trip to Tresco proved to be a real Waderfest: a Baird’s Sandpiper & 2 Pectoral Sandpipers (photo) were showing from the Swarovski hide and across the 2 pools other birds seen 6 Ruff, 5 Little Stint (photo), 1 Knot, 7 Curlew Sandpiper, 1 Wood Sandpiper, 12 Green Sandpiper, 2 Common Sandpiper, 18 Dunlin, 39 Black-tailed Godwit, 12 Greenshank, 13 Redshank, 1 Whimbrel, 7 Snipe and 3Oystercatcher, Read more…
Thursday (01/09) Great White Egret – 1 flew high west over Porth Hellick Pool. Pectoral Sandpiper still on the Great Pool, Tresco. Red-backed Shrike – The juvenile was still in the maze orchard along Carn Friars Farm Track. Osprey – 1 over St. Agnes. Great Shearwater – 12 on a sharking/birding trip 3 miles southwest of Bishop Read more…
Sunday (28/08) The final daytime Birders’ Special Pelagic trip 6 miles southwest of St. Agnes produced a Wilson’s Storm-petrel, 60 European Storm-petrel, 46 Great Shearwater, 17 Cory’s Shearwater, 4 Sooty Shearwater, 3 Balearic Shearwater, 2000 Manx Shearwater, 8 Grey Phalarope, 9 Sabine’s Gull, 3 Great Skua, an Arctic Skua, 100 Short-beaked Dolphin and a Blue Shark. Booted Warbler – 1 was found at Higher Moors on the Read more…
Wednesday (24/08) Pectoral Sandpiper – The first of the autumn was 1 seen from the Swarovski Hide on the Great Pool, Tresco. Red-backed Shrike – 1 in the hedge of a field on the other side the Pool Road opposite the track to Swarovski Hide, Tresco. Black-tailed Godwit – 14 on Abbey Pool, Read more…
Saturday (20/08) The daytime Birders’ Special pelagic trip 6 miles south of St. Mary’s was again excellent, sighting included: 19 Wilson’s Storm-petrel (including a flock 10), 200 European Storm-petrel, 5 Cory’s Shearwater, 33 Great Shearwater, 6 Sooty Shearwater, 500 Manx Shearwater, a Great Skua, 2 Grey Phalarope, 60 Short-beaked Common Dolphin, an Ocean Sunfish, and a Blue Shark. Spotted Crake – 1 still on Porth Read more…
Tuesday (16/08) The evening joint birding/sharking 3 miles southwest of Bishop’s rock, continued the excellent sighting from the birder’s special pelagic trips, sighting included: 8 Wilson’s Storm-petrel, 60 European Storm-petrel, 20 Cory’s Shearwater, 20 Great Shearwater, 2 Sooty Shearwater, 500 Manx Shearwater, 2 Mediterranean Gull, a Yellow-legged Gull, a breaching Minke Whale (photo), an Ocean Sunfish, 2 Blue Shark and a 300 lb+ Porbeagle Shark (photo). The Read more…