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…
Sunday (21/11) Goosander – A female was in Old Town Bay before flying off over the airfield, this is a scarce bird on Scilly Siberian Chiffchaff – 3 Porth Hellick and 2 Lower Moors. Firecrest – 2 Porth Hellick. Little Egret – 2 Porthloo. Read more…
Tuesday (16/11) Spotted Sandpiper – 1 still on Porthloo Beach. Dusky Warbler – 1 still at Higher Moors between the road & Holy Vale and 1 in Lower Moors opposite the track to the Hilda Quick Hide. Yellow-browed Warbler – 1 near shooter’s Read more…
Saturday (13/11) Lesser Scaup – 1 still on the Great Pool, Tresco. Glossy Ibis – 1 still on Tresco in fields at south end of Pool Road, Tresco. Cattle Egret – 1 on Tresco with cattle at Middle Down then moving to Read more…
Tuesday (09/11) Lesser Scaup – 1 still on the Great Pool, Tresco. Glossy Ibis – 1 still on Tresco in a field by Rowesfield Cottage. Yellow-browed Warbler – 1 near the road on the track to Porth Hellick. Siberian Chiffchaff – 1+ Shooter’s Pool, Read more…
Saturday (06/11) Jack Snipe – 3 on Porth Hellick Pool. Yellow-browed Warbler – 1 on the Porth Hellick Loop Trail. Siberian Chiffchaff – 1 on the Porth Hellick Loop Trail and 3 in Lower Moors. Raven – 1 flew over Kittydown. Cetti’s Warbler – 1 Read more…
Arctic Warbler – 1 still on Content Lane. Western Subalpine Warbler – 1 still in the hedge at Content. Hoopoe – 1 on the school playing field on St. Martin’s. Snow Bunting – 1 on St. Martin’s. Hawfinch – 1 flew north over the Garrison. Glaucous Gull – a Read more…
Monday (01/11) Lesser Scaup – 1 still on the Great Pool, Tresco. Spotted Sandpiper – 1 still at Watermill Cove. Arctic Warbler – 1 on Content Lane (photo). Olive-backed Pipit – 1 still in the field next to Nowhere, Old Town. Glossy Ibis –1 still Read more…
Sunday (31/10) Lesser Scaup– 1 still on the Great Pool, Tresco. Spotted Sandpiper – 1 again at Watermill Cove. Olive-backed Pipit – 1 still in the allotment field next to Nowhere allotment. Glossy Ibis – 1 on Simpson’s Field, Tresco. Hoopoe – 1 flew Read more…
Saturday (30/10) Lesser Scaup – 1 still on the Great Pool, Tresco. Western Subalpine Warbler – 1 still in the fields east of Telegraph Road. Hoopoe –1 still at the north end of Popplestone Fields, Bryher, it or another flew over Toll’s Porth Read more…
Friday (29/10) After scrutiny of photographs, the Acro seen yesterday and identified as a putative Blyth’s Reed Warbler, has been re-identified as a Reed Warbler. Spotted Sandpiper – 1 still on St. Mary’s at Pendrathen. Western? Subalpine Warbler – A0n individual seen in fields east of Read more…