Wednesday (11/08) Lesser Yellowlegs – 1 was still on Abbey Pool, Tresco (photo). Wood Sandpiper – 1 was still on Abbey Pool, Tresco. Thursday (12/08) Wilson’s Storm-petrel – 8+ on the evening pelagic trip 6 miles southeast of St. Mary’s. European Storm-petrel – 80 on the Read more…
Monday (09/08) Lesser Yellowlegs – 1 was on Abbey Pool, Tresco, this is the second bird this year following the 1 found at Porth Hellick in May. Wilson’s Storm-petrel – 9 on the evening pelagic trip 7 miles south of St. Mary’s (photo). European Read more…
Monday (02/08) Wilson’s Storm-petrel – 2 on the evening Birders’ Special Pelagic 5 miles south of St. Mary’s. European Storm-petrel – 10 on the evening Birders’ Special Pelagic 5 miles south of St. Mary’s. Great Shearwater – A distant large shearwater on the Read more…
Monday (26/07) Puffin – Still 35 of Annet and 7 at Malledgan. Cuckoo – A juvenile in the Trenoweth area. Siskin – A male and a juvenile in a garden on High Lanes. Porbeagle Shark – What was thought to be the heaviest shark Read more…
Monday (19/07) Balearic Shearwater – 2 on a evening pelagic trip 6 miles south of St. Mary’s. Sooty Shearwater – 1 on the evening pelagic trip. European Storm-petrel – 1 on the evening pelagic trip. Dark-bellied Brent Goose – The unseasonal bird was in Bathinghouse Porth, Read more…
Monday (12/07) Rose-coloured Starling – The bird near the police station had moved further along the road towards Parson’s field and was later back in the New Zealand flame tree. Another was near the Seven Stones Inn on St. Martin’s. Mistle Read more…
Monday (05/07) Red-Footed Falcon – 1 still on the Golf Course. Rose-coloured Starling – 1 in the allotments opposite Normandy house Iceland Gull – 1 was in a bare field at the junction of Telegraph Road and High Lanes and it or another Read more…
Monday (28/06) Wilson’s Storm-petrel – 1 was seen 5 miles southeast of St. Mary’s on the evening pelagic trip. (photo) Red-Footed Falcon – 1 still on the Golf Course. Rose-coloured Starling – 1 was on the west end of the beach on Old Read more…
Monday (21/06) Red-breasted Merganser – A pair were in Pelistry Bay off Toll’s Island late evening. Redwing – A very unseasonable bird was seen in a field near the Old Town Church. Tuesday (22/06) Marsh/Blyth’s Reed Warbler – An Acrocephalus Warbler heard on St. Agnes Read more…
Tuesday (15/06) EGYPTIAN VULTURE – There were several claims of it been seen on Tresco through a telescope from St. Mary’s. Despite several more claims, visiting birders on Tresco could not find it. There were 3 independent reports in the late afternoon Read more…