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What a special day! Early morning drive out with
@wearegivestar
to Project Africa’s overnight camp for Orkney to meet the team and run with
@hardestgeezer
! An exceptional, inspirational and accommodating bunch of people! So much love to you all 💛 See you at Cap Angela 💪🌍🏃
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A female Phronima sedentaria - ‘monster in a barrel’ - on Scilly today!
An amphipod crustacean, she parasitises salps, devouring them from the inside, forming a vessel to raise her young!
These incredible creatures were the inspiration behind Ridley Scott’s 1979 film, Alien 👽
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MY WIFE JUST FOUND A MYRTLE WARBLER ON SCILLY! 😃💥
She phoned me at work to say she had a bird she didn’t recognise. I went to look & found this!!! She was rockpooling with the kids by this point & I shouted to her “You’ve found a Myrtle warbler!” She replied “Is that good?” 💛
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There’s a walrus 400 yards from our front door - an absurd sentence! What an immense and intimidating creature. One of many photos taken from the kayak this evening!
The Isles of Scilly - what a place 🙌
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The walrus made its way around the bay trying unsuccessfully to board each of the 20 or so anchored yachts - felt slightly concerned it was going to hop on the kayak but thankfully it decided against it!! Nonetheless, my heart was in my throat! Unreal!
#Wally
#ScillyWalrus
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The lack of visitors to Scilly has allowed Porthcressa Beach to flourish. Whilst tourists may favour ‘pristine’ sandy beaches, I think this explosion of sea rocket, sea beet, and rock samphire is far more impressive, providing some great habitat for local and migrant birds!
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Male LESSER KESTREL hunting over Deep Point and Porth Hellick Down!! Wow!!! That’s woken us all up a bit!! 😳What a stonker!!
#ScillyBirds
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Violet sea snails (Janthina janthina) on Scilly today - ten found on a quick check of Town Beach at lunchtime! The rare arrival of this tropical water mollusc coincides with a big offshore movement of their prey, by-the-wind sailors, at the end of last week! Magic!! 🌊🐌🟣
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Porthcressa Bay’s resident sunfish - made a brief visit to the shallows this afternoon before heading back out in to deeper water! A really charismatic little fella ☀️
#Scilly
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We just kayaked out in to Porthcressa with the walrus!! It came to within 10ft of us, roared, and stared us out (photos to follow) - I’m still shaking. It was doing its best to climb on the yachts, my wife got this video!
#ScillyWalrus
Credit Samaya Reid
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A few flight shots of the Egyptian vulture from yesterday afternoon before it departed Tresco for a tour of St. Mary’s. An exceptionally cool bird in flight, a very surreal moment seeing it in Scillonian air space!
#ScillyBirds
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A Cape May warbler just found me on a Bryher!!! 💥💥💥 Outrageous!! November Scilly Setophaga magic strikes again! WHAAAAAAAA!!!
#ScillyBirds
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Exceptional arrival across Scilly over the last 24 hours - pallid swift, night herons, purple herons, R-r swallow, woodchat shrike, hen harrier, R-n duck & 7+ golden orioles!! As always, I couldn’t see it all, but after seeing this scene below, little else mattered!
#ScillyBirds
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Finally, after years searching, I’ve found my own sea bean on St. Mary’s! 😃 A ‘sea heart’ - the seed of the monkey-ladder (Entada gigas), a tropical woody vine of Central American rainforests. Extreme seed dispersal at play! 🌊
A treasured find 🤎🙌
#PWC2023
#AlternativeFind
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The big southerlies delivered! One of 19 Cory’s shearwaters south of St. Mary’s last night
@Scillypelagics
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Some video of the myrtle warbler yesterday as it gorged on the abundance of flies along the Old Town Bay sea wall. It was also extremely vocal all day, and a few calls are audible in the video!
#ScillyBirds
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Just found a death’s-head hawkmoth caterpillar on Peninnis Head!! Absolute beauty 🤩
#ScillyMoths
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🧡🖤🤍 This is what it’s all about! Amazing scenes on Scilly!
#BlackburnianWarbler
#ScillyBirds
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Who better to co-find a mega American warbler with than the person you love most! 💛🙌
A mind-blowing November myrtle warbler just 700m from home! Celebrating this evening with some fancy wine in re-used jam jars, of course! Scilly… what a place!🍷
#ScillyBirds
#MegaWifeFinds
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Myrtle warbler still here this morning!! Good luck to the few people on their way over for it 🙌
Four of many photos from yesterday 💛
#ScillyBirds
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Wally has finally left us! He brought so much joy to the islands during his prolonged visit, he’ll be missed! Enjoy your stay in Ireland big fella. Safe travels 💛
#Walrus
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Update: the 1w male merlin is recovering well. He responded brilliantly to being hand-fed & today began feeding of his own accord on some sliced chicken. After Xmas he’ll move up to a larger aviary to continue rehab. All looking very positive 🤞
Video posted in comments below 🎥
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Dreamland! I’ve just had the absolute privilege of calling out a fea’s petrel to a boatload of 35 birders! Adrenaline-inducing madness followed by pure joy! Didn’t hang around for long but did enough for everyone to get good views! What a beauty! Pic by Andy Frost
#ScillyPelagics
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A proper top drawer spring migrant!!
@scillywebb
had this red-throated pipit fly over his garden this afternoon before relocating it in nearby paddocks on the Garrison!! Absolute beaut!!
#ScillyBirds
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Fea’s petrel towers above the Eastern Isles… a scene straight out of Bugio. A moment captured from three minutes of euphoria as this majestic gadfly toyed with the Sapphire slick. This is
@Scillypelagics
🙌
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Absurdly good views of the little bittern second time around this evening as it crept past the windows of the Seaward Hide, much to the delight of the four of us inside, before slinking off in to the reeds once again!
#ScillyBirds
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It’s been a particularly good few days for wrynecks, with likely dozens across the islands during the past week. Due to a busy period at work I’d missed out until today, when the Buzza Quarry bird of recent days found itself 50m from my front door 🙌
#ScillyBirds
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What a sensational day! Only 20 minutes in to a planned full day birding on Bryher, and Britain’s 3rd Cape May warbler pops out in front of me! 🤯 There’s a pattern emerging in our family with mega nearctic warblers in November… and long may it continue!! 😂🙌
#ScillyBirds
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Still on a high this morning after last nights Wilson’s storm-petrel exhibition. Truly exceptional birds and an absolute pleasure to experience so intimately!! 🤘 Roll on August!
#ScillyPelagics
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With the expert help of my six-year-old rock pooling guru, I saw my first two Cornish clingfish this afternoon! Such beautiful, bizarre little fish 🙌
#scilly
#rockpooling
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These charming waders gracing a heathery Scilly headland is one of my favourite autumn scenes. Incredibly, despite buff-breasted sandpiper being annual on the islands, this is the first one I’ve seen in four years! A glorious sunset spent alone with a cracking bird
#ScillyBirds
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‘Pi’ is back!! 🙌 A humpback whale lingering close in off Old Town this afternoon drew the usual delighted crowds… but excitement grew when we realised it was ‘Pi’, the humpback who spent three months around the islands during the winter of 20/21! Incredible! Welcome back! 🖤
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After running out of the house for two humpack whales(!!) this afternoon, I nipped back to Bryher briefly to see
@SteveOnHilbre
&
@HERDOFHERDHALL
, & spend some more time with the Cape May Warbler.
It really was every bit as awesome as the first time!!
#ScillyBirds
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Final photo, for now 👀, of the blackburnian warbler. It’s just completed it’s fifth day of wowing crowds & tormenting inverts in Popplestone Fields… will it stay another five days & welcome the Scilly ‘Teachers Week’ birders?!
@jonnie_fisk
@k1awrence
@TimsBirding
@SBOmad
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The overnight storm has wrecked some of the biggest Portuguese man o’ war I have ever seen on Scilly. The largest of which, being closely inspected here by Orli Marley, was on Little Porth Beach this afternoon
#ScillyShore
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Drifting for Wilson’s over Pol Bank last night with
@Scillypelagics
when a LAUGHING GULL arrived from the south & sat in the slick!
Undoubtedly the bird that’s been around the islands recently, but some 18km at sea from where it was last seen on Tresco 12 days ago!
#ScillyBirds
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Graham Gordon lands a monster!! HERMIT THRUSH on St. Mary’s, Scilly at the pumping station end of Kitty Down!! The autumn that keeps on giving! Get in!!!
#ScillyBirds
#HermitThrush
#Catharus
#Mega
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All of Saturday’s frustration alleviated 🙌 Northern parula providing outrageous views on St. Martin’s!! What an absolute firecracker 💥
#ScillyBirds
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After a painstaking wait and an hour chase around Bryher, the crag martin finally gave itself up spectacularly, performing at Hillside Farm, only a few ft overhead at times! A quality first for Scilly! 🙌
#ScillyBirds
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This absolute stunner is still on Porthcressa Beach this morning after being found by
@stagnesnature
yesterday. It looks the part for Spanish wagtail (M.f. iberiae) - recordings and poo samples pending - and it’s exceptionally confiding! Bird of the spring so far! 🙌
#ScillyBirds
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Today’s unprecedented arrival of red kites over Scilly was extraordinary! It started with two groups of c20 touring the islands before 75+ arrived from the south, culminating in a count of 133 over Hugh Town! Then a honey buzzard cruised through the middle of them 🤯
#PWC2023
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Scilly’s 7th northern parula, but the first since 1995! Yet another of the golden-age classics to fall in recent times. A species that was nearing mythical status for younger generations, and I couldn’t think of anywhere better to finally see one!
#ScillyBirds
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Working late in to the evening yesterday was made worthwhile when a hoopoe flew over the lab! And an extended morning mooch today was brightened by this cracking bee-eater! The colours of spring on Scilly 🙌
#ScillyBirds
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A touch of ‘Costa del Scilly’ around Porth Hellick! Purple heron, male golden oriole, lesser kestrel (still!), but the undoubted highlight was
@IWTScilly
finding a firecracker of a male eastern subalpine warbler! Singing, calling, and showing extremely well!
#ScillyBirds
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Adult male lesser kestrel bug-snatching on a gusty Peninnis Head! A spectacular backdrop for a stunning bird! Another top class find by
@Scillypelagics
🙌
#ScillyBirds
#PWC2023
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Incredible behaviour observed from this brilliantly decorated long-legged spider crab (Macropodia rostrata) on St. Agnes yesterday - thought to be displaying a defence or aggression ‘dance’ due to its displeasure at being picked up - it was swiftly return to its rock pool 🦀
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Truly incredible views of pallid swift on Saturday as it fed beneath the Star Castle Hotel. This was 1 of 3 pallid swifts that arrived on the islands on Friday, two together at Trenoweth which departed ‘overnight’, & this one, which was initially found on St. Agnes!
#ScillyBirds
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A day of classic Scilly spring overshoots! R-r swallow, golden orioles, western subalp, bee-eaters and woodchat all on show! Unfortunately I was working so only saw the woodchat and the subalp.. but if this was the only bird I saw all week I’d be more than happy 🤩🤘🏻
#ScillyBirds
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HERMIT THRUSH offered fantastic views this morning and is still showing well at Kitty Down this afternoon
#ScillyBirds
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With a good run of Cory’s past Cornish headlands in the last 48 hours, we headed out on the Sapphire yesterday with high expectations & we were not disappointed! Eight in total, some giving exceptional views alongside the boat. Also 2 Wilson’s & 6 sooties!
@Scillypelagics
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Wandered down the road at lunch to investigate an ‘unusual’ wader naked-eyed at range by
@dub_birder
whilst working. Was absolutely not expecting to find a huge yellow eye staring back at me from a bulb field! A December stone curlew 🤯 Richard’s pipit also flew over!
#ScillyBirds
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A fabulously confiding juv. spotted sandpiper has spent the last couple of days moving between Porth Hellick Pool and the bay 🤩
#ScillyBirds
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Sad to see this magnificent juvenile merlin in such a sorry state on Porthmellon Beach today. The problem wasn’t obvious - bird was thin and dehydrated. Now with the island vet having had some fluids, & food on it’s way. Thank you
@JABBIRDART
&
@LucyMcRobert1
for assistance 🤞
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More tropical voyagers on Scilly!!
@scillywebb
found this COCONUT today whilst out kayaking! He brought it back to St. Mary’s then phoned me to say a COLUMBUS CRAB had just dropped out of it!
What a journey both coconut and crab must have been on!! 🌊🥥🦀
@scillyrockpools
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BELTED KINGFISHER!! Utter madness! The stuff that Scilly dreams are made of!! Much better photos to come from other! But WOW!! 😳😳🤘🏻🤘🏻
#ScillyBirds
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An extraordinary evening for Wilson’s with at least 18 SE of St. Mary’s. An unprecedented total this early in the season, but unsurprising given the recent run of reports from land. Also four early Sabine’s gulls, plus sooty, great & Cory’s shears! 🤘
@Scillypelagics
#ScillyBirds
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One of at least four olive-backed pipits found across Scilly this autumn, and by far the easiest view… creeping around the grounds of the derelict Sporting Club behind the Garrison Pines yesterday.
Always a joy, and my favourite pipit species, to spend time with 🤘
#ScillyBirds
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It looks like our myrtle warbler has moved on after five wonderful days. Standing on the beach y’day, staring at it’s favoured seaweed pile, evoked a feeling of sadness at the realisation that it was likely gone. One of the most charismatic little birds I’ve ever spent time with!
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A male black-headed bunting amongst late spring flowers on Bryher has been a Scilly ‘fantasy find’ of mine for several years. On this occasion, I had to settle for twitching one… but I’m not complaining!! Simply exquisite!
#ScillyBirds
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A few more pics of the Cape May warbler which I’ve been ogling over during a Saturday morning coffee ☕️ Scilly birding at it’s ultimate best!! Good luck to anyone travelling down for it. Got too much on to go back today, but I’ll be keeping everything crossed🤞
#ScillyBirds
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With the weekend arrival of
@jonnie_fisk
@k1awrence
@TimsBirding
@SBOmad
@CornwallBirding
& many others, I went to pay my respects to our exquisite resident yank once again. Every minute with him was as special as the first 🙌💛
#BlackburnianWarbler
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Better views of the lesser kestrel this afternoon, and a ✅ for the wife and kids! Seems to be ranging pretty far and goes missing for long periods. The few that have travelled over for it this morning were made to wait, but all got good views in the end!
#ScillyBirds
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Six years old and Egyptian vulture on his Scilly list! I couldn’t get my bins back off him, safe to say he spent more time looking at it than I did 😆
#ScillyBirds
#EgyptianVulture
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What an extraordinary day!! Two fin whales moving south off Deep Point and potentially as many as SEVEN humpback whales between Garrison, Peninnis and Deep Point! Never seen or even imagined these scenes off Scilly! Incredible way to end the year 🙌
#ScillyCetaceans
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One more euro stormie... Notoriously difficult to photograph, this was one of only a small handful of close, in-focus, fly-by shots from 100s of attempts. The scarcities provide adrenaline in abundance, but ESPs will never be topped for me. They’re the best bird in the world! 🖤
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Five years ago I read about a fish called a sea snail. I thought the book had made a typo or misprint, until I read further. I’ve wanted to find one ever since, and today my time came! I give you the quirky, curious, Montagu’s sea snail (Liparis montagui)
#ScillyRockpooling
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The lesser kestrel continues to give fabulous views on the patch! Mobile at times, but always returning to either Peninnis Head or the airfield for prolonged periods.
Otherwise a few hirundines have trickled through, but still awaiting our first big arrival of migrants
#PWC2023
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The glossy ibis at Porth Hellick found itself in some difficulty this afternoon, resulting in it being stuck in reeds and unable to fly with mud-clogged primaries. With a bit of team work we managed to catch, clean and release it to a more suitable area of the pool
#ScillyBirds
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Another awesome encounter with the ocean sunfish in Porthcressa Bay this afternoon. It’s becoming somewhat of a local celebrity!
#IslesOfScilly
#Sunfish
#Molamola
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Milestone moment for the rockpooling Reid’s today, finding our first ever live wentletrap (Epitonium clathrus). The shells are rare enough as it is, an even more prized find than than the much sort after cowries! But to discover one with someone home was almost unthinkable! 🙌 🐚
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For the last few mornings two male golden orioles have been singing at Holy Vale, at times joined by a female! After missing out on the Lakenheath days, to have regularly singing GOs a short walk from home is incredibly special!
#ScillyBirds
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Yesterday Orkney received an incredibly special message from the heart of
#ProjectAfrica
, from his newest hero the formidable
@hardestgeezer
Russ Cook💥
A massive thank you to
@wearegivestar
for linking up Russ & Orkney! The ultimate inspiration to get him through this week 💪
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Another day, another violet sea snail, fresh in at Bar Point… only this one wasn’t alone! Such is their lifestyle of bobbing around on the sea surface, it’s no surprise that this rough goose barnacle (Lepas pectinata) found it to be a suitable host!
Isn’t nature incredible 🤩
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Another superb evening at sea, and the third time in the last four pelagics that we’ve enjoyed ‘The Big Three’! One Cory’s and at least six Wilson’s, but the night belonged to the ever-prestent great shearwaters! c.16 in total, with twos or threes always on show!
#ScillyPelagics
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Scilly is biting back with a vengeance!! Black-and-white warbler on Tresco, moving through the lichen-covered sallows between the hides! The vision of Scilly dreams!! Not sure who found it at this stage... but big congrats to them
#ScillyBirds
💥💥💥
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After nearly a month with little activity from the west, this spanking grey-cheeked thrush at the bottom of Rocky Hill Lane is hopefully just a precursor for the week of late transatlantic promise that lies ahead 🌬️
#ScillyBirds
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CLIFF SWALLOW❗️tearing up and down Porthcressa for a few minutes before drifting away over Buzza Hill… but not before sneaking on to the house list by the skin of it’s beak! A massive yank mega adrenaline hit courtesy of the ever-awesome Ren Hathway 🙌
#ScillyBirds
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I wasn’t overly optimistic of seeing the Swainson’s when we arrived to be told it has disappeared in to this shit-show! But fear not, it eventually returned to the original garden & performed exquisitely!
A point-blank wryneck on the way to the pub for bonus points!
#ScillyBirds
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The first south easterlies of the autumn delivered this divine milky-tea booted warbler to Higher Moors this morning, the first on Scilly since 2014!
Another top find by
@scillywebb
#ScillyBirds
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Oh what a night!! Extatic doesn’t cut it!! I’ve barely slept, my head in a spin. One of the rarest birds in the world, giving us a tantalising glimps into its life just a few miles from my home! ZINO’S!!!!!
@Scillypelagics
absolutely rocking it’s way through 2020!
#Scillypelagics
Zino's Petrel y'day eve pelagic 3 miles southwest Bishop Rock @ 20.55 - photo Danni & Zac Hinchcliffe
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Yesterday marked our fifth anniversary of moving to these magical isles, & what a way to celebrate! 🙌 Scilly’s fifth lesser kestrel but only the third ‘modern’ record following individuals in 2002 & 2020! Spring 2023 is off to a flyer 💥
#ScillyBirds
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Sheer panic today after
@sqiudeater
messaged saying he had a lesser kestrel at PH Down!! Unfortunately it coincided with my little lad’s 5th Bday party, which I was half an hour late to 😬😆 Hoping to show him the bird tomorrow in less stressful circumstances!!
#ScillyBirds
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The sulid stare. Now coming at you from all angles of Bishop Rock Lighthouse!!
#BrownBooby
#RedFootedBooby
#ScillyBirds
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Incredibly, despite the terrible condition it was in yesterday, the juv. merlin was still alive this morning and is doing surprisingly well after taking in some food… perched up, alert, and stretching its wings. Hopefully I can provide more positive updates through the week 🤞
Sad to see this magnificent juvenile merlin in such a sorry state on Porthmellon Beach today. The problem wasn’t obvious - bird was thin and dehydrated. Now with the island vet having had some fluids, & food on it’s way. Thank you
@JABBIRDART
&
@LucyMcRobert1
for assistance 🤞
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Superb Desertas petrel found by
@anthonysbirds
on today’s outstanding
@Scillypelagics
! Many 100s of Cory’s, greats & sooties gave a mind blowing display before this caught us all off guard! Frustratingly seen by only a few as it went through as quickly as it arrived!
#ScillyBirds
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A truly outrageous weekend of pelagic seabirding off Scilly was taken to the next level last night with this South Polar Skua! Huge admiration, credit, & thanks to Bob for calmly & expertly addressing the ID of this bird! 🙌
@Scillypelagics
just keep getting better & better! 🌊
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A curlew sandpiper at Porth Mellon beach this afternoon was a very welcome Scilly tick (thanks
@IWTScilly
!!). It’s the first one on the islands since autumn 2017 and the first spring record for ten years! Such a classy little wader 🤩
#ScillyBirds
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Despite the abundance of scarcer seabirds... storm-petrels were once again my weekend highlight! These three sea-sprites were the first sitting ‘flock’ of stormies I’ve seen... a very evocative sight!
#ScillyPelagics
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Red-rumped swallow showed wonderfully earlier, as the evening sunlight fell over Porth Hellick
#ScillyBirds
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Immensely hyped to find a monarch gliding in-off at Peninnis Lighthouse this afternoon! Very mobile in warm 40mph westerlies, but enjoyed gorgeous views for c.15 seconds! Very much a ‘dream come true’ moment to find my first British one on patch 😃🙌
#ScillyButterflies
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The eight-strong glossy ibis flock are getting better and better as time goes on. Today emitting their purples and greens along Porthloo Lane!
#ScillyBirds
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As we move through August we start to see more variety at sea, which can often include a good arrival of Sabine’s gulls as they head south post-breeding. We enjoyed 13 of these striking small gulls over the weekend, some of which performed impeccably!
#ScillyPelagics
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SOLITARY SANDPIPER Porth Hellick Pool, Scilly! A bit unexpected for mid-May. The joys of Scilly! Great find by
@Scillypelagics
🤘🏻
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