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 (12/04) Great White Egret – 1 on Bryher, present since at least Friday (photo) Cattle Egret – 4 on Tresco Coal Tit – 1 on Pool Road, Tresco. This is a scarce bird on Scilly (photo) Hoopoe – 1 by Buzza Tower flew towards Read more…
Monday (05/04) Hoopoe – 1 in a garden behind Star Castle (photo) Iceland Gull – 1 Porthloo, 1 in a ploughed field by Longstone Cottage Great Spotted Woodpecker – 1 in the horse paddocks at Content Ring Ouzel – 1 Carn Friars Pied Flycatcher – Read more…
Monday (29/03) Hoopoe – 1 Bread and Cheese Cove, St. Martin’s Cattle Egret – 4 High Lanes Shoveler – 4 on Porth Hellick Pool Great Northern Diver – 1 Porth Cressa, 1 off St.Martin’s Little Egret – 1 Porthloo Golden Plover – 3 on the airfield Iceland Read more…
Monday (22/03) Cattle Egret – 4 Sandy Lane later on Tresco Pochard – 3 pairs displaying on Tresco Eider – 2 off the Golf Course Black-throated Diver – An adult winter-plumaged bird between the Golf Course and Tresco Great Northern Diver –20 off the Golf Read more…
Monday (15/03) Common Tern – 1 flying east past Carn Near, Tresco was the first of the year Cattle Egret – 4 in the cattle field behind High Lanes GreylagGoose – 1 Tresco Russian White-fronted Goose – 1 Tresco Great Northern Diver – 1 Porth Cressa Read more…
Monday (08/03) Fin Whale – 2 past past the airport and then Tolman’s Point Cattle Egret – 4 Tresco Black-throated Diver – 1 seen from the Golf Course looking towards Bathing House Beach, Tresco Slavonian Grebe – 1 coming into breeding plumage, seen from Read more…
Monday (01/03) BrentGoose – 1 in Hugh Town Harbour Red-breasted Merganser – 1 Lawrence Bay, St. Martin’s Whimbrel – 4 Pelistry Iceland Gull – 1 at Tregarthen’s Hotel car park Raven – 1 Salakee Mistle Thrush – 1 Salakee Black Redstart – 1 Porthcressa White Wagtail – 4 Read more…
Monday (22/02) Brent Goose – A pale-bellied bird on the Great Pool, Tresco Shoveler –2 on the Great Pool, Tresco Eider – 1 off Skirt Island, Tresco Great Northern Diver – 2 just off Par Beach, St. Martin’s Bar-tailed Godwit – 16 Pendrathen Little Gull – Read more…
Monday (22/02) Brent Goose – A pale-bellied bird on the Great Pool, Tresco Shoveler –2 on the Great Pool, Tresco Eider – 1 off Skirt Island, Tresco Great Northern Diver – 2 just off Par Beach, St. Martin’s Bar-tailed Godwit – 16 Pendrathen Little Gull – 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…