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 (15/02) Greylag Goose – 1 flew over Pelistry Riding Stabled heading towards Tresco Russian White-fronted Goose – 1 flew over Pelistry Riding Stabled heading towards Tresco Spoonbill – 1 Samson Bar-tailed Godwit – 10 Porthloo Mediterranean Gull – 1 Porthloo Glaucous Gull – 1 again on the Read more…
Monday (08/02) Kumlien’s Gull – 1 was found at Morning Pont Cattle Egret – 4 still in a field opposite Parting Carn Eider – 1 Bar Point Golden Plover – 1 over Longstone Glaucous Gull – 1 again on the bird table in the garden Read more…
Monday (01/02) Cattle Egret – 4 Longstone Whimbrel – 1 Great Bay, St. Martin’s Purple Sandpiper – 10 Great Bay, St. Martin’s Glaucous Gull – 1 again on the bird table in the garden behind Star Castle Iceland Gull – 2 Porthloo Raven – 2 Bull’s Read more…
Monday (25/01) Fin Whale – 1 off blue Carn and the off Peninnis, 2 seen of Carn Wethers, St. Martin’s Humpback Whale –1 still near Samson Cattle Egret – 2 Longstone and 2 in the chicken field at Parting Carn (photo) Eider – 1 Read more…
Monday (18/01) Fin Whale – 2 off Peninnis Cattle Egret – 4 Longstone Mediterranean Gull – 10 below Tregarthen’s Car Park Glaucous Gull – 1 again in a garden behind the Star Castle which then flew towards Porth Cressa Iceland Gull – 1 also in Read more…
Monday (11/01) Cattle Egret – 2 Longstone Whimbrel – 1 Pendrathen Bar-tailed Godwit – 12 Pendrathen Woodcock – 1 by the Telegraph Radio mast Mediterranean Gull – 1 Morning Point on the Garrison Glaucous Gull – 1 in a garden behind Star Castle Iceland Gull – 2 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…