Latest bird sightings from the Islands
St. Mary’s – The 3 Ring-necked Ducks and a drake Pochard were still on Porth Hellick Pool. The 6 Greenland White-fronted Geese were still on Carn Friars Farm in the field behind the ringing station. St. Agnes – A Glaucous Gull and 2Linnets. Linnets do not usually winter on Scilly Read more…
St. Mary’s – The 3 Ring-necked Ducks were still on Porth Hellick Pool and the 6 Greenland White-fronted Geese were still on Carn Friars Farm in the field behind the ringing station. A Glaucous Gull was at Thomas Porth. St. Agnes – The Greylag Goose was on Porth Killier.
St. Agnes – The Glaucous Gull and an Iceland Gull were on the Campsite Beach. St. Mary’s – An Iceland Gull (probably the St. Agnes bird) was on Porthloo Beach. . The 3 Ring-necked Ducks were still on Porth Hellick Pool and a Greylag Goose flew over Lower Moors towards Read more…
St. Mary’s – A Little Auk and 2 Great Northern Divers flew east past Peninnis Head. The 3 Ring-necked Ducks were still on Porth Hellick Pool and the 6 Greenland White-fronted Geese were still on Carn Friars Farm on the field behind the ringing station.
St. Agnes – The Glaucous Gull was at St. Warna’s Cove.
St. Mary’s – The 3 Ring-necked Duck were still on Porth Hellick Pool and the 6 Greenland White-fronted Geese were in a field behind the ringing station. 2 Brent Geese were off Bar Point. St. Agnes – A first-winter Glaucous Gull was feeding on a dead seal and a dead Read more…
St. Mary’s – The 3 Ring-necked Duck and the 6 Greenland White-fronted Geese were still on Porth Hellick Pool
St. Mary’s – The only report was of a Golden Plover was on the airfield
St. Mary’s – The 3 Ring-necked Ducks, the 6 Greenland White-fronted Geese and the pair of Pochard were still on Porth Hellick Pool. 2 Dark-bellied Brent Geese were at Pendrathen and 2 Firecrests were at Longstone. Samson – A female Common Eider was offshore. Inter-island Waters – 2 Slavonian Grebes Read more…
St. Mary’s – The 3 Ring-necked Ducks, the 6 Greenland White-fronted Geese and the pair of Pochard were still on Porth Hellick Pool. A Long-eared Owl was in Holy Vale, a Little Auk was off the Creeb and a juvenile Glaucous Gull flew from Porthloo towards the golf course.