Sightings

4th November 2009 St. Mary’s – 3 Black Redstarts and a first-winter Mediterranean Gull at Little Porth, single Black Redstarts at Giant’s Castle & Watermill, Merlin over the golf course, Golden Plover on the airfield, 7 Teal at Porth Hellick Read more

OLIVE-BACKED PIPIT still in the Marigold field on Sunnyside Farm Trail, BLUETHROAT still in the new extension of Lower Moors at Rosehill, Yellow-browed Warblers on Porth Hellick Loop and near Shooters’ Pool, Lower Moors, Siberian Chiffchaff at Higher Moors pumping Read more

Below is a list of birds of note from the last week in October. Not the greatest week in history but just enough to keep the week ticking over. (more…)

St Mary’s – Richard’s Pipit at Porthloo lane in pig field opposite Bishops View this morning and Ring Ouzel briefly. Yellow-browed Warbler at Porth Hellick at Seaward end in sallows. St Agnes – *OLIVE BACKED PIPIT* on Browarth briefly this Read more

St. Mary’s – A Pintail & Kingfisher at Newford Duck pond, 2 Jack Snipe on Porth Hellick Pool and Yellow-browed Warblers in Holy Vale & Lower Moors. A Richard’s Pipit on Porthloo Lane, a Snow Bunting on Toll’s Island and Read more

St. Mary’s – A Pintail at Newford Duck pond, 3 Common Scoter in the roads, 6 Sooty Shearwaters & 2 Great Skuas past Peninnis, 3 Jack Snipe on Porth Hellick Pool and a juvenile Arctic Tern on the Beach. A Read more

There was an influx of Skylark (150+ on St. Mary’s), Chiffchaffs (100+St. Agnes), and Black Redstarts (27 St. Agnes, 30+ St.Mary’s) St. Mary’s – 1 Whooper Swan early morning on Lower Moors, A Pintail on Newford Duck Pond, a summer Read more