Tuesday (26/10) Lesser Scaup – The first-winter bird was still on the Great Pool, Tresco. Hoopoe – 1 at Great Par, Bryher. Richard’s Pipit – 1 in the fields north of the bakery on St. Martin’s. Wryneck – 1 between the south end of Popplestone Bay and the Great Pool, Bryher (photo). Little Bunting – Read more…
Monday (25/10) Lesser Scaup –The first-winter bird seen off Gugh had moved to the Great Pool, Tresco. Spotted Sandpiper – 1 still at Watermill before flying towards Innisidgen. Red-throated Pipit – 1 circled over Lower Moors calling before flying towards the airfield. Hoopoe – 1 at Gweal Hill, Bryher. Hawfinch – 1 at Higher Newford Read more…
Sunday (24/10) If all the sightings are confirmed it was a 7 Pipit Day on St. Mary’s: Meadow, Rock, Tree, Water, Richard’s, Olive-backed & Blyth’s. Blyth’s Pipit – A vocal bird flew west over the airfield towards Old Town and then flew into fields at Porth Minnick. Lesser Scaup – A juvenile Read more…
Saturday (23/10) Hoopoe – 1 still on St. Agnes. Red-breasted Flycatcher – 1 still in the Parsonage Garden and 1 on Barnaby Lane, both St. Agnes. Woodlark –1 on the Sunnyside Farm Trail. Water Pipit – 3 in the ploughed field at Parting Carn. Olive-backed Pipit – A “very probable” flew over the school playing Read more…
Friday (22/10) Spotted Sandpiper – 1 still at Watermill Cove (photo). Hoopoe – What was presumably the bird that was on St. Mary’s yesterday had moved to St. Agnes, where it was seen at various sites. Red-throated Pipit – A “possible” was seen in the courtyard of the old school at Carn Thomas Read more…
Thursday (21/10) Spotted Sandpiper – 1 still at Watermill Cove. Olive-backed Pipit – A “possible” near Troy Town, St. Agnes. Hoopoe – 1 flew in off the sea at Porth Minnick and was then seen at various locations around St. Mary’s including Porth Hellick, Giant’s Castle, 1 Trenoweth, 1 Newford Duck Pond, the Read more…
Wednesday (20/10) Another wet and windy day. Spotted Sandpiper – 1 again at Watermill Cove. Red-breasted Flycatcher – 1 in the Parsonage Garden, St. Agnes. Woodlark – 1 flew over Newford Duck Pond and was seen briefly on telegraph wires over a field on Pungies Lane. Water Pipit – 1 in a field at Read more…
Tuesday (19/10) A wet and windy day, consequently there were less people in the field and less birds reported, Spotted Redshank – 1 still on the Great Pool, Tresco. Jack Snipe – 1 on Lower Moors Pool, 1 on Porth Hellick Pool and 1 on the Abbey Pool, Tresco. Yellow-browed Warbler – 1 Read more…
Monday (18/10) Blyth’s Reed Warbler – 1 near Grinlinton House on St. Agnes. Bluethroat – 1 still on Bryher. Woodlark – 1 in the field opposite Newford Duck Pond(photo). Red-backed Shrike – 1 in the bracken just above Tregear’s Porth, south of Watermill Cove. Spotted Redshank – 1 still on the Great Pool, Tresco. Jack Read more…
Sunday (17/10) Monarch Butterfly – 1 was seen again, this time flying over Maypole towards Borough Farm. Dusky Warbler – 1 still in the bushes at Newford Duck Pond and 1 seen from the ISBG Hide in Lower Moors. Red-throated Pipit – 1 flew over Watermill Lanetowards Trenoweth. Bluethroat – 1 still at Gweal Hill, Read more…