St. Mary’s – 130+ Cory’s Shearwaters passed Deep Pont, Giants’ Castle and Peninnis Head, also passed were 4 Sooty & 400+ Manx Shearwaters,a Great Skua and 4 European Storm-petrels. The Common Sandpiper was still on Porth Hellick Pool. St. Agnes Read more…
St. Mary’s – A Common Sandpiper was on Porth Hellick Pool and a Hobby flew over Innisidgen. Samson – The female Marsh Harrier was still present.
St. Mary’s – 2 Hobbies were seen several times at various locations on the island. 2 Swifts were over Hugh Town, 2 Greenshanks were on Porth Hellick Pool and a Wheatear was on Salakee Down. Tresco – 3 Greenshanks, a Read more…
St. Mary’s – 2 Greenshank and 2 Swifts at Porth Hellick Pool with another 6 Swifts over Longstone. A Sparrowhawk was at Old Town, a Common Buzzard was near Porth Hellick House and a Hobby was seen over the airfield Read more…
St. Mary’s – A Honey Buzzard flew over Hugh Town and was later seen flying SW over Tresco towards Samson. The Bee-eater flew over Trenoweth at 16:00 and was seen on wires at Maypole at 20:25 before flying back towards Read more…
St. Mary’s – A Bee-eater was heard calling near Old Town Church but was not seen. 2 Greenshanks & the first returning Green Sandpiper were on Porth Hellick Pool and 8 Swifts were over the island. Tresco – 3 Wigeon Read more…
The only birds reported on Wednesday were 20 European Storm-petrels on a shark fishing trip. Thursday’s birds were: St. Agnes – The Bee-eater flew over the old observatory. Tresco – The 3 unseasonal Wigeon were still on the Great Pool Read more…
St. Mary’s – The Black Kite flew from Tresco to St. Mary’s. where it was seen over Holy Vale before flying off high over Salakee. A Common buzzard was perched on trees near Porth Hellick House, nearby a Whimbrel, 2 Read more…
St. Mary’s – A Bee-eater flew over MacFarland’s Down towards Tresco. Tresco – The Black Kite spent the day on Tresco with the occasional visit to Bryher and the Bee-eater was heard but not seen. Also on the island were 2 Read more…
Saturdays birds were: Samson – Marsh Harrier. Western Rocks – 30 Puffins and a Arctic Skua. Sunday’s birds were: St. Mary’s – A Bee-eater was over MacFarland’s Down and later Pungie’s Lane. 5 Swifts were over Telegraph & one was Read more…