St. Mary’s – 4 Green Sandpiper, 6 Common Sandpiper, a juvenile Ruff, a Whimbrel and a Crossbill at Porth Hellick. 4 Green Sandpiper at the pool behind the dump, 2 juvenile Mediterranean Gull at Porthloo, 4 Dunlin Hugh Town and Read more…
St. Agnes – 20 Sanderling, 2 Common Sandpiper and a Dunlin. Tresco – A Dunlin and a Sunfish north of the island. Samson – The Spoonbill was still present. Teän – A Whimbrel, 60+ Curlew and a Greenshank. There were Read more…
St. Mary’s – A Whimbrel at Bar Point, a Mediterranean Gull at Porthloo, a Cuckoo at Giant’s Castle, a wheatear on Peninnis and 5 Greenshank, a Green & 6 common Sandpipers at Porth Hellick. Tresco – 14 Little Egret, a Read more…
St. Mary’s – A Kingfisher, a juvenile Cuckoo, 3+ Crossbill, a Green and 5 Common Sandpipers at Porth Hellick. A Wood Sandpiper briefly in the afternoon at Lower Moors. An evening pelagic trip produced a Wilson’s Storm-petrel, a Sooty Shearwater Read more…
The African Bird Club is making available for purchase a number of the orginal plates from The Birds of Africa which Martin Woodcock has refused to sell until recently. You can view the paintings at http://www.africanbirdclub.org/club/paintingsales.html or via the ABC Read more…
St. Mary’s – 7 Greenshank, 6 Common, 5 Green & 2 Wood Sandpipers on Porth Hellick Pool, a Common Sandpiper by the quay and 2 Green Sandpipers on a pool behind the dump. Samson – The spoonbill was still present,
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…