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…
Wednesday (06/01) Humpback Whale – 1 off the west side of Peninnis, it or another in the Roads Cattle Egret – 2 Longstone Common Scoter – 3 in Crow sound Spoonbill – 1 flew over Hugh Town Harbour then Old Town Bay and then Read more…
Friday (01/01) Humpback Whale – 1 between Annet and Samson Finn Whale – 4 off Deep Point, 1 south of Peninnis Head, then in Porth Cressa Bay Cattle Egret – 4 still at Longstone Siberian Pink-footed Goose – 1 on Porth Hellick Pool Russian White-fronted Goose – Read more…
Sunday (27/12) Little Bunting – 1 still at the Dump Allotments Great Northern Diver – 1 Porth Cressa Whimbrel – 3 in Bread and Cheese Cove, St. Martin’s Woodcock – 1 Lower Moors Iceland Gull – 2 Porthloo Great Spotted Woodpecker – 1 Porth Hellick Loop Read more…
Wednesday (23/12) Very few birds reported and a day of foul weather Little Bunting – 1 still in the Dump allotments Great Northern Diver – 1 Perpitch Bay & 1 Higher Town Bay, both St. Martin’s Iceland Gull – 1 Porthloo, 1 flew Read more…
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 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 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 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 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 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 Read more…