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…
St. Mary’s – A Spoonbill, 2 Firecrests, a Siberian Chiffchaff, 2 Jack Snipe, 17 Teal and 15 Lapwing at Porth Hellick, 2 Siberian Chiffchaff at Lower Moors and a Water Pipit & a Black Redstart on the beach below the Read more…
St. Mary’s – A very cold day but warmer than the mainland, with consequent cold weather movement. There were 30 Golden Plovers and 22 Lapwings on the airfield, there were other small flocks of Lapwing and Golden Plovers around the Read more…
St. Mary’s – A Water Pipit & a Black Redstart on the beach below the Quay car park. Another Black Redstart at Little Porth and a Brambling & a Great Northern Diver flew over Hugh Town. A Siberian Chiffchaff was Read more…
St. Mary’s – The 3 Pale-bellied Brent Geese at Porth Mellon were joined by a fourth bird and a Spoonbill was at Porth Hellick. 16 Bar-tailed Godwits, 9 Curlews, a Whimbrel & a Common Gull at Bar Point. a Black Read more…
St. Mary’s – Today was a day for Firecrests with 3 at Porth Hellick, 2 in Lower Moors and 1 in the Dump Clump. also on the island were 3 Pale-bellied Brent Geese at Porth Mellon and a Little Grebe Read more…