To celebrate our 20th year, we have worked with UK Birding Pins to create our very own ISBG pin badge, featuring our logo designed by Scilly artist Ren Hathway. Pins are £5 and all the profits will go straight to Read more…
The Isles of Scilly are famed for diverse, beautiful and often rare wildlife. Autumn migration is where the magic really happens and this season is shaping up to be a classic year, with sightings already including Black Kites, Spotted Sandpiper, Read more…
Monday (12/07) Rose-coloured Starling – The bird near the police station had moved further along the road towards Parson’s field and was later back in the New Zealand flame tree. Another was near the Seven Stones Inn on St. Martin’s. Mistle Read more…
Monday (05/07) Red-Footed Falcon – 1 still on the Golf Course. Rose-coloured Starling – 1 in the allotments opposite Normandy house Iceland Gull – 1 was in a bare field at the junction of Telegraph Road and High Lanes and it or another Read more…
Monday (28/06) Wilson’s Storm-petrel – 1 was seen 5 miles southeast of St. Mary’s on the evening pelagic trip. (photo) Red-Footed Falcon – 1 still on the Golf Course. Rose-coloured Starling – 1 was on the west end of the beach on Old Read more…
Monday (21/06) Red-breasted Merganser – A pair were in Pelistry Bay off Toll’s Island late evening. Redwing – A very unseasonable bird was seen in a field near the Old Town Church. Tuesday (22/06) Marsh/Blyth’s Reed Warbler – An Acrocephalus Warbler heard on St. Agnes Read more…
Tuesday (15/06) EGYPTIAN VULTURE – There were several claims of it been seen on Tresco through a telescope from St. Mary’s. Despite several more claims, visiting birders on Tresco could not find it. There were 3 independent reports in the late afternoon Read more…
Sunday (13/06) Night Heron – A “probable” seen at 21:00 flying over Longstone Pochard – 3 females with broods 0f 7,4 & 3 ducklings Eider – A female off St. Martin’s Swift – 30 Tresco Black-tailed Godwit – 1 Tresco Iceland Gull – 1 Samson, 1 Read more…
Friday (04/06) Rose-coloured Starling – 1 at Carn Friars which flew towards Porth Hellick Down Friday (04/06) Knot – a summer-plumaged bird was on Green Island, Tresco (photo) Sunday (06/06) Rose-coloured Starling – 1again at Carn Friars Iceland Gull – 1 on St. Mary’s Read more…
Tuesday (01/06) Golden Oriole – 1 moved south through Holy Vale at 06:35 Quail – 1 flushed from the lower path by the reeds behind Porth Hellick bank flew towards Carn Friars Marsh Harrier – A female flew from Tresco to St. Mary’s Read more…
Friday (28/05) Red-rumped Swallow – 1 over John Batty’s Hill, St. Martin’s later seen St. Martin’s cricket pitch Quail – 1 flushed at Lower Town, St. Martin’s Golden Oriole – 1 at Higher Town, St. Martin’s Wood Sandpiper – 1 Porth Hellick Pool (photo) Read more…
Friday (21/05) Shelduck – 2 Porth Hellick Pool Turtle Dove – 1 in Old Town Churchyard Water Rail – 1 in Lower Moors was unseasonably late Iceland Gull – 1 Porthloo Cetti’s Warbler – 1 Porth Hellick, 1 Lower Moors Yellow Wagtail – 1 Porth Hellick Read more…