Saturday (19/12) Fin Whale – 1 off Giant’s Castle Cattle Egret – 4 Rowesfield, Tresco Red-throated Diver – 1 flew past Giant’s Castle Great Northern Diver – 1 Porth Cressa, 1 flew past Giant’s Castle, 1 Great Bay, St. Martin’s Sooty Shearwater – 2 flew past Giant’s Castle Manx Shearwater – 2 flew past Giant’s Read more…
Monday (14/12) Great Northern Diver – 2 Great Bay, St. Martin’s Manx Shearwater – 1 flew west past Giant’s Castle Purple Sandpiper – 1 flew west past Giant’s Castle, 1 Great Bay, St. Martin’s Great Skua – 1 flew west past Giant’s Castle Yellow-legged Gull – 3 Morning Point on the Garrison Iceland Gull – 1 Read more…
Wednesday (09/12) Fin Whale – 1 probably 2 off St. Martin’s Siberian Greylag Goose – 1 still in the usual field at the top of Kittydown Russian White-fronted Goose – 1 still in the usual field at the top of Kittydown Grey Plover – 1 Porth Hellick Bar-tailed Godwit – 1 Pendrathen Purple Sandpiper – 4 Great Read more…
Sunday (06/12) Dusky Warbler – 1 Shooters’ Pool, Lower Moors Pallas’s Warbler – 1 trapped, ringed and released at Porth Hellick Ringing Station was the latest ever record on Scilly. It was later seen behind the ringing lanes near the small pool on Carn Friars Farm (photo) Cattle Egret – 1 flew north Read more…
Wednesday (02/12) Cattle Egret – 4 on the Great Pool, Tresco, seen later at Borough Farm, Tresco Siberian Greylag Goose – 1 on Porth Hellick Pool Russian White-fronted Goose – 1 on Porth Hellick Pool Wigeon – 4 on the Great Pool, Tresco Pintail – A drake and a female on Abbey Pool, Tresco Shoveler – A drake Read more…
Saturday (28/11) Dusky Warbler – 1 Lower Moors Whooper Swan – 6 flew northeast over Porth Hellick Siberian Greylag Goose – 1 still in the usual field at the top of Kittydown Russian White-fronted Goose – 1 still in the usual field at the top of Kittydown Great Northern Diver – 1 off the west side of Read more…
Scilly continues to provide good birds, some of them were: Wednesday (25/11) Dusky Warbler – 1 still in Lower Moors and 1 at Tremelethen Farm Siberian Greylag Goose – 1 still in the usual field at the top of Kittydown Russian White-fronted Goose – 1 still in the usual field at the top of Kittydown Read more…
Saturday (21/11) Dusky Warbler – 1 still in Lower Moors and 1 at Longstone Cattle Egret – 4 in a field behind the New Inn, Tresco Siberian Greylag Goose – 1 still in the usual field at the top of Kittydown Russian White-fronted Goose – 1 still in the usual field at the top of Kittydown Read more…
Wednesday (18/11) Dusky Warbler – 1 Porth Hellick near the leat between the pool and the beach Kumlien’s Gull – 1 in Porth Cressa Bay then flew towards Town Bay, later at Morning Point (photo) Siberian Greylag Goose – 1 still in the usual field at the top of Kittydown Russian White-fronted Goose – 1 still Read more…
Saturday (14/11) Dusky Warbler – 1 still in Holy Vale Woodlark – 1 flushed from the top field on the Peninnis Farm Trail Whimbrel – 13 Innisidgen Woodcock – 1 in the Dump Clump, 1 Longstone Jack Snipe – 1 Higher Moors Swallow – A late bird over the Mermaid Carpark Yellow-browed Warbler – 1 in the Read more…