St. Mary’s – With no wind and flat calm conditions were ideal for looking at the sea. Watches from the Garrison, MacFarland’s Down and Innisidgen produced 3 Slavonian Grebes, a Black-necked Grebe, a Black-throated Diver, 43 Great Northern Divers, 30+ Read more…
St. Mary’s – An Eider, 7 Common Scoters, 14 Great Northern Divers and a Slavonian Grebe on the sea viewed from Star Castle. Seen from Bar Point were another 15 Great Northern Divers, another Slavonian Grebe, 3 Whimbrel , 3 Read more…
St. Mary’s – 4 Siberian Chiffchaffs & 3 Firecrests at Porth Hellick, 3 Firecrests in Lower Moors and 7 Great Northern Divers off Bar Point & 2 Waxwings over
St. Mary’s – A female Cetti’s Warbler, 4 Siberian Chiffchaffs. a Firecrest, a Skylark and 3 Blackcaps
St. Mary’s – 3 Siberian Chiffchaffs & 3 Firecrests at Lower Moors, a Firecrest at Porth Hellick, a Firecrest at Rosehill, a Black Redstart at Little Porth and 3 Pale-bellied Brent Geese at Porth Mellon
St. Mary’s – The Water Pipit & Black Redstart were still by the quay car park, the Black Redstart was still at Little Porth and the 3 Pale-bellied Brent Geese & the Red-breasted Merganser were still at Porth Mellon. 2 Read more…
St. Mary’s – The 3 Pale-bellied Brent Geese and the female Goldeneye were still at Porthloo. 14 Snipe flew over High Lanes, the Water Pipit was still on the beach below the quay car park and 2 Common Gulls, 20 Read more…
St. Mary’s – 3 Pale-bellied Brent Geese, 7 Dunlin & 5 Common Gull at Porthloo. There was an impressive flock of waders on the airfield, with 300+ Golden Plovers, 50+ Lapwings, 20+ Ringed Plovers, 5 Dunlin, 5 Snipe and 3 Read more…
St. Mary’s – A female Goldeneye, a Red-breasted Merganser and 3 Pale-bellied Brent Geese at Porthloo. The Water Pipit & Black Redstart were still on the beach below the quay car park and a Little Grebe,12 Teal, a Jack Snipe, Read more…
St. Mary’s – The cold weather continued to push much larger numbers of Snipe, Fieldfare, Redwing, Golden Plover & Lapwing than is usual on Scilly, e.g 200+ Lapwing and 120+ Golden Plover across with flocks of 85 Lapwing and 45 Read more…