St. Mary’s – 7 Common Sandpiper & 2 Green Sandpiper at Porth Hellick and 2 Mediterranean Gulls at Porthloo. A Balearic Shearwater and a European Storm-petrel were seen from the Scillonian on the morning crossing from Penzance to St. Mary’s. Read more…
St. Mary’s – 4 Common Sandpiper, a Green Sandpiper and 6 Greenshank. 2 Mediterranean Gulls at Porthloo. St. Agnes – A Common Sandpiper, 10 Turnstone and 2 Whimbrel. Gugh – 3 Common Sandpiper. Bryher – An Arctic Tern.
St. Mary’s – An adult Mediterranean Gull at Porthloo. St. Agnes – 4 Green Sandpiper, a Common Sandpiper and 30+ Rock Pipit feeding on a newly cleared edge of the Big Pool. Tresco – 8 Little Egret and 17 Grey Read more…
St. Mary’s – A Common Sandpiper by the quay, a Marsh Harrier & a Green Sandpiper at Porth Hellick and 2 adult Mediterranean Gulls on Taylor’s Island, Porthloo. Two Manx Shearwaters and 26 Storm petrels ringed overnight at Peninnis Head. Read more…
St. Mary’s – A Green Sandpiper, a Common Sandpiper and 7 Greenshank at Porth Hellick. A Basking Shark was seen off Peninnis. Samson – The Spoonbill still present. Annet – European-storm Petrel (15) trapped and ringed from on-board The Sapphire Read more…
St. Mary’s – 2 Green Sandpiper, a Common Sandpiper and 6 Greenshank at Porth Hellick. The daytime pelagic produced a Grey Phalarope, a Sooty shearwater, 5 Manx Shearwater, 40+ European Storm-petrel and 3 Great Skua. Also on the trip 6 Read more…
St. Mary’s – 3 Mediterranean Gulls (2 adults and one first winter) at Porthloo. 6 Greenshank, a Common Sandpiper and a Green Sandpiper at Porth Hellick. St. Martin’s – 60 Sanderling and a Kestrel. Samson – A Spoonbill on White Read more…
St. Mary’s – A Mediterranean Gull in the Porthloo/Porth Mellon area. St. Martin’s – A Wheatear. St. Agnes – a Common Tern, a Willow Warbler and a Wheatear. The 2 Wheatears above follow a belated report of 2 on Castle Read more…
St. Mary’s – A Kingfisher, a Common Sandpiper and 6 Greenshank at Porth Hellick. Tresco – A Hobby, a Marsh Harrier and a Common Sandpiper. Samson – The Spoonbill still present
St. Mary’s – A Whimbrel over Holy Vale and an adult Mediterranean Gull on Porthloo beach. Tresco – 6 Redshank, a Common Snipe, 3 Tufted Duck and 10 Grey Heron. Despite the fog the birders on the daytime pelagic trip Read more…