Monday (01/11) Lesser Scaup – 1 still on the Great Pool, Tresco. Spotted Sandpiper – 1 still at Watermill Cove. Arctic Warbler – 1 on Content Lane (photo). Olive-backed Pipit – 1 still in the field next to Nowhere, Old Town. Glossy Ibis –1 still Read more…
Sunday (31/10) Lesser Scaup– 1 still on the Great Pool, Tresco. Spotted Sandpiper – 1 again at Watermill Cove. Olive-backed Pipit – 1 still in the allotment field next to Nowhere allotment. Glossy Ibis – 1 on Simpson’s Field, Tresco. Hoopoe – 1 flew Read more…
Saturday (30/10) Lesser Scaup – 1 still on the Great Pool, Tresco. Western Subalpine Warbler – 1 still in the fields east of Telegraph Road. Hoopoe –1 still at the north end of Popplestone Fields, Bryher, it or another flew over Toll’s Porth Read more…
Friday (29/10) After scrutiny of photographs, the Acro seen yesterday and identified as a putative Blyth’s Reed Warbler, has been re-identified as a Reed Warbler. Spotted Sandpiper – 1 still on St. Mary’s at Pendrathen. Western? Subalpine Warbler – A0n individual seen in fields east of Read more…
Thursday (28/10) Lesser Scaup – The first-winter bird was still on the Great Pool, Tresco. Blyth’s Reed Warbler – An Acrocephalus warblernear Shooter’s Pool, Lower Moors was thought by some observers to be this species. Spotted Sandpiper – 1 still at Watermill Cove. Hoopoe – 1 Read more…
Wednesday (27/10) Lesser Scaup – The first-winter bird was still on the Great Pool, Tresco. Spotted Sandpiper – 1 again among the rocks at Watermill Cove. Hoopoe – 1 still Popplestone Fields/Bay area, Bryher. Serin – 1 in a garden of the Coastguard Cottages, Read more…
Tuesday (26/10) Lesser Scaup – The first-winter bird was still on the Great Pool, Tresco. Hoopoe – 1 at Great Par, Bryher. Richard’s Pipit – 1 in the fields north of the bakery on St. Martin’s. Wryneck – 1 between the south end of Read more…
Monday (25/10) Lesser Scaup –The first-winter bird seen off Gugh had moved to the Great Pool, Tresco. Spotted Sandpiper – 1 still at Watermill before flying towards Innisidgen. Red-throated Pipit – 1 circled over Lower Moors calling before flying towards the airfield. Hoopoe – Read more…
Sunday (24/10) If all the sightings are confirmed it was a 7 Pipit Day on St. Mary’s: Meadow, Rock, Tree, Water, Richard’s, Olive-backed & Blyth’s. Blyth’s Pipit – A vocal bird flew west over the airfield towards Old Town and then Read more…
Saturday (23/10) Hoopoe – 1 still on St. Agnes. Red-breasted Flycatcher – 1 still in the Parsonage Garden and 1 on Barnaby Lane, both St. Agnes. Woodlark –1 on the Sunnyside Farm Trail. Water Pipit – 3 in the ploughed field at Parting Carn. Read more…