St. Mary’s – A Spotted Redshank flew north over Porth Hellick Pool. At sea – 27 European Storm-petrels, 5 Cory’s, a Balearic, a Sooty & 3 Great Shearwaters and 20+ Common Dolphins were seen from the Scillonian III on the Read more…
St. Mary’s – 5 Common Sandpipers were on Porthcressa Beach. 10 Greenshanks, a Redshank, 2 Green Sandpipers and 4 Dunlins were on Porth Hellick Pool. 6 Green Sandpipers and a Common Snipe were on Lower Moors Pool. Bryher – A Read more…
St. Mary’s – 11 Greenshanks and a Redshank were on Porth Hellick Pool. Bryher – 8 Ringed Plover.
St. Agnes – A Whimbrel, a Common Sandpiper, a Black-tailed Godwit and 3 Northern Wheatears. At sea – There were 2 short-range pelagic trips the totals were: Daytime – 35 Cory’s, 17 Great, 1 Balearic. 31 Sooty and 500 Manx Read more…
St. Mary’s – A Common Sandpiper was on Porthloo Beach. At sea – 5 Great Shearwaters and 3 European Storm-petrels were seen from the Scillonian III on the crossing from Penzance to St. Mary’s. Shearwaters continued to perform – 150 Read more…
St. Mary’s – A Kingfisher was on Porth Hellick Pool. Bryher – A Dunlin. St. Martin’s – A Northern Wheatear. Inter-island waters– 2 Mediterranean Gulls were in Tresco Channel. At sea – A Cory’s, 34 Sooty, a Balearic and 2 Read more…
St. Mary’s – The first returning Northern Wheatear of the autumn was seen on Porth Hellick Down and a Mediterranean Gull was at Porthloo. St. Agnes – 10 Curlews a Turnstone and a Common Sandpiper were on Browarth. At sea Read more…
St. Mary’s – A Hobby was over Porth Hellick. At sea – A Cory’s, 2 Sooty & 2 Great Shearwaters and an Ocean Sunfish were seen from the Scillonian III on the crossing from Penzance to St. Mary’s. On the Read more…
Video Footage of last nights incredible Pelagic trip (courtesy of Bob Flood via Youtube) Birders lucky enough to be on the short-range evening pelagic trip on the 3rd experienced the best ever Scilly pelagic. A shoal of about 20 Bluefin Read more…
At sea – The Wilson’s Petrel bonanza continues with a minimum of 8 seen on the latest pelagic trip. This takes the seasons total to 44, with 4 long weekends of birders special pelagics there must be a good chance Read more…