ISBG News
SeaWatch SW update……..
The SeaWatch SW website has recently been updated as we reach the halfway point of the 2009 field season. To view this month’s bumper news edition see: http://www.seawatch-sw.org (more…)
BIRD REPORTS
Saturday 29th August 2009 IoS Bird Reports
St. Mary’s – Ruff & Wood Sandpiper at Porth Hellick Pool but no sign of the Lesser Yellowlegs. 8 Wheatear, 2 White Wagtails and a Tree Pipit at Peninnis Head. Nightingale on the Garrison and Arctic Skua offshore Bryher – BUFF-BREASTED Read more…
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Friday 28th August 2009 IoS Bird Reports
St. Mary’s – *LESSER YELLOWLEGS* still at Porth Hellick Pool. Also Ruff, 2 Common Sandpiper. An adult & juvenile Mediterranean Gull at Porthloo and 10 Common Terns in The Roads. Tresco – BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPER on Castle Down today. Also pale-bellied Brent Goose, 2 Read more…
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Thursday 27th August 2009 IoS Bird Reports
St. Mary’s – *LESSER YELLOWLEGS* still at Porth Hellick Pool. Also Ruff, Common Sandpiper and 6 Greenshank on Porth Hellick Pool. An adult & juvenile Mediterranean Gull at Porthloo and 30+ Sandwich Terns and 2 Common Terns in The Roads Samson– Read more…
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Wednesday 26th August 2009 IoS Bird Reports
St. Mary’s – *LESSER YELLOWLEGS* still at Porth Hellick Pool. Also Ruff. Elsewhere, 2 Mediterranean Gulls at Porthloo, 30+ Sandwich Terns at Porthcressa. Scillonian crossing from St. Mary’s to Penzance: Balearic, 7 Manx & 2 Sooty Shearwaters, 13 European Storm-petrels and Read more…
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Tuesday 25th August 2009 IoS Bird Reports
St. Mary’s – *LESSER YELLOWLEGS* still at Porth Hellick Pool. Also Ruff. Elswhere, 2 Mediterranean Gulls (adult & juvenile) at Porthloo and Nightingale, 2 Pied & 4 Spotted Flycatchers on the Garrison. Another very quiet evening pelagic produced just 40 European Read more…
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Monday 24th August 2009 IoS Bird Reports
St. Mary’s – *LESSER YELLOWLEGS* still at Porth Hellick Pool. Also Ruff, 6 Greenshank, 1 Green & 2 Common Sandpipers and an adult & juvenile Water Rail. 2 Mediterranean Gulls at Porthloo and Nightingale, 2 Pied & 4 Spotted Flycatchers on Read more…
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Sunday 23rd August 2009 IoS Bird Reports
St. Mary’s – *GREAT REED WARBLER* at Porth Hellick Pool today. Also *LESSER YELLOWLEGS* still and Ruff. Nightingale again near the Garrison tennis court and Spotted and Pied Flycatchers nearby. Med Gull (2) on Taylor’s Island, Porthloo Daytime pelagic – 8+ *WILSON’S Read more…
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Saturday 22nd August 2009 IoS Bird Reports
St. Mary’s – *LESSER YELLOWLEGS* still at Porth Hellick Pool. Also Ruff still and Nightingale again near the Garrison tennis court. St. Agnes – Wryneck below The Parsonage Daytime pelagic – Great Shearwater, second summer pale morph Pomarine Skua, 3 Sooty Read more…
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Friday 21st August 2009 IoS Bird Reports
St. Mary’s – *LESSER YELLOWLEGS* still at Porth Hellick Pool. Also Ruff (2). Med Gull (2) at Porthloo and Nightingale seen briefly near the tennis court on the Garrison this morning. Tresco – Pintail (2), Wigeon, Black-tailed Godwit, Redshank (8), Read more…