Tuesday’s Birds were: St. Martin’s – The Rock Thrush was still at Bread and Cheese Cove and also there were 2 Ring Ouzels. St. Mary’s – The Purple Heron was still on the pool at Lower Moors. St. Agnes – Read more…
Sunday’s birds were: St. Martin’s – A male ROCK THRUSH was seen by a visiting birder staying on the island. St. Mary’s – The Purple Heron was still at Lower Moors, where it was joined by a drake Garganey. St. Read more…
Thursday’s birds were: St . Mary’s – A Purple Heron was seen on Porth Hellick Pool and in Lower Moors. Inter-island waters – 6 Great Northern Divers and a Sandwich Tern were in The Roads. Friday’s birds were: St . Read more…
Sunday– An Iberian Chiffchaff was on the edge of the “Dump Clump” Monday – An adult Purple Heron flew over Lower Moors early morning and was seen in flight several times in the afternoon in the Porth Hellick area. Tuesday Read more…
Thursday – An Iberian Chiffchaff was singing at Porth Hellick, a Ring Ouzel was on the Garrison and a female Shoveler was on Newford Duck Pond. Friday – 2 Red-rumped Swallows and a Little Grebe were at Porth Hellick Pool. Read more…
A few Swallows, House Martin’s and Wheatears were seen around St. Mary’s. This week’s birds of note were: Saturday – An adult Caspian Gull was in Pentle Bay, Tresco. This was only the second record for Tresco, the first was Read more…
The 2 Black-necked Grebes were still in the harbour throughout and the Cetti’s Warbler was seen off and on at Porth Hellick Loop. The juvenile Glaucous Gull was at Porthloo most days and was joined by a juvenile Iceland Gull Read more…
The 2 Black-necked Grebes were in Town Bay all week and the juvenile Glaucous Gull was seen at Porthloo on Monday (20/02), Thursday (23/02), Friday (24/02) and Sunday (26/02). The Cetti’s Warbler was seen or heard several times during the Read more…
The Black-necked Grebes in Town Bay were back to 2 birds by Wednesday (15/02) and remained there for the rest of the week . A juvenile Glaucous Gull was seen at Porthloo on Monday (13/02), Wednesday (15/02) and Sunday (19/02). Read more…