A wonderfully confiding 1w dotterel on Shipman Head Down, Bryher #ScillyBirds #UKBirding #ukwildlife
October 23, 2024 at 8:04 PM
A wonderfully confiding 1w dotterel on Shipman Head Down, Bryher #ScillyBirds #UKBirding #ukwildlife
Red-breasted Flycatcher, St Martin’s, Isles of Scilly #ScillyBirds #Birds
October 13, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Red-breasted Flycatcher, St Martin’s, Isles of Scilly #ScillyBirds #Birds
The excellent start to the Scilly Pelagic season continued last night with a great showing of 20 Wilson’s storm-petrels, 14 Cory’s shearwaters, and a 1s Sabine’s gull #seabirds #scillybirds #ukbirding
July 15, 2025 at 10:12 AM
The excellent start to the Scilly Pelagic season continued last night with a great showing of 20 Wilson’s storm-petrels, 14 Cory’s shearwaters, and a 1s Sabine’s gull #seabirds #scillybirds #ukbirding
A little ray of Scilly sunshine… Male citrine wagtail on Bryher this evening. A top spring find by John O’Sullivan earlier in the day! Amazingly my first male citrine wagtail ever, anywhere! 🙌 #ScillyBirds
May 7, 2025 at 7:36 PM
A little ray of Scilly sunshine… Male citrine wagtail on Bryher this evening. A top spring find by John O’Sullivan earlier in the day! Amazingly my first male citrine wagtail ever, anywhere! 🙌 #ScillyBirds
A couple of lovely nearctic waders recently delivered to Scilly by the early autumn westerly gales.
Pectoral sandpiper, Porth Hellick.
Buff-breasted sandpiper, St. Mary’s Airfield.
#ScillyBirds #RareBirdsUK #ukbirding
Pectoral sandpiper, Porth Hellick.
Buff-breasted sandpiper, St. Mary’s Airfield.
#ScillyBirds #RareBirdsUK #ukbirding
September 6, 2025 at 9:05 PM
A couple of lovely nearctic waders recently delivered to Scilly by the early autumn westerly gales.
Pectoral sandpiper, Porth Hellick.
Buff-breasted sandpiper, St. Mary’s Airfield.
#ScillyBirds #RareBirdsUK #ukbirding
Pectoral sandpiper, Porth Hellick.
Buff-breasted sandpiper, St. Mary’s Airfield.
#ScillyBirds #RareBirdsUK #ukbirding
Excellent start to a fortnight on Scilly with Isabelline Wheatear on St Just Airfield, Semi-p Sand yesterday and Paddyfield Warbler today along with 2 very showy Ortolan Buntings, Glossy Ibis and Rose-coloured Starling
#ukbirding
#ukbirding
October 3, 2025 at 8:27 AM
Western Bonelli’s Warbler, present for its sixth day, showing very well in the Garrison Dead Pines this morning.
Scilly’s 34th record of WBW - undoubtedly one of, if not the, most reliable place to see the species in Britain.
#ScillyBirds #RareBirdsUK #UKbirding
Scilly’s 34th record of WBW - undoubtedly one of, if not the, most reliable place to see the species in Britain.
#ScillyBirds #RareBirdsUK #UKbirding
August 18, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Western Bonelli’s Warbler, present for its sixth day, showing very well in the Garrison Dead Pines this morning.
Scilly’s 34th record of WBW - undoubtedly one of, if not the, most reliable place to see the species in Britain.
#ScillyBirds #RareBirdsUK #UKbirding
Scilly’s 34th record of WBW - undoubtedly one of, if not the, most reliable place to see the species in Britain.
#ScillyBirds #RareBirdsUK #UKbirding
A very lovely Little Bittern at Porth Hellick this afternoon… another nice addition to what’s been a pleasant spring on Scilly with some great birding! Still a decent number of golden orioles and turtle doves around also 🙌☀️ #ScillyBirds
May 11, 2026 at 7:31 PM
A very lovely Little Bittern at Porth Hellick this afternoon… another nice addition to what’s been a pleasant spring on Scilly with some great birding! Still a decent number of golden orioles and turtle doves around also 🙌☀️ #ScillyBirds
Wilson’s storm-petrels are steadily making their way in. Three on tonight’s Scilly Pelagic - two moulting adults and one fresh juv. - alongside 30 or so European storm-petrels. Two early Sabine’s gulls were a welcome bonus #ScillyPelagics #ScillyBirds #Seabirds
June 23, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Wilson’s storm-petrels are steadily making their way in. Three on tonight’s Scilly Pelagic - two moulting adults and one fresh juv. - alongside 30 or so European storm-petrels. Two early Sabine’s gulls were a welcome bonus #ScillyPelagics #ScillyBirds #Seabirds
The confiding lesser yellowlegs at Stinking Porth, Bryher, yesterday afternoon. A very enjoyable hour spent with a wet belly watching & photographing this very sleek nearctic wader #ScillyBirds 🪶
October 18, 2024 at 10:26 AM
The confiding lesser yellowlegs at Stinking Porth, Bryher, yesterday afternoon. A very enjoyable hour spent with a wet belly watching & photographing this very sleek nearctic wader #ScillyBirds 🪶
Made up to see my third phalarope species (Wilson’s) of the Autumn followed by a cracking Richard’s Pipit
October 3, 2025 at 8:26 AM
Wilson’s storm-petrels are steadily making their way in. Three on tonight’s Scilly Pelagic - two moulting adults and one fresh juv. - alongside 30 or so European storm-petrels. Two early Sabine’s gulls were a welcome bonus #ScillyPelagics #ScillyBirds
June 23, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Wilson’s storm-petrels are steadily making their way in. Three on tonight’s Scilly Pelagic - two moulting adults and one fresh juv. - alongside 30 or so European storm-petrels. Two early Sabine’s gulls were a welcome bonus #ScillyPelagics #ScillyBirds
After two frustrating days the secrets of the St. Agnes mourning dove were finally revealed today!
First for Scilly, first for England, sixth for Britain! A real heavyweight nearctic mega to get the pulses racing, and a very classy little bird it is too!
#ScillyBirds
First for Scilly, first for England, sixth for Britain! A real heavyweight nearctic mega to get the pulses racing, and a very classy little bird it is too!
#ScillyBirds
October 9, 2025 at 7:26 PM
After two frustrating days the secrets of the St. Agnes mourning dove were finally revealed today!
First for Scilly, first for England, sixth for Britain! A real heavyweight nearctic mega to get the pulses racing, and a very classy little bird it is too!
#ScillyBirds
First for Scilly, first for England, sixth for Britain! A real heavyweight nearctic mega to get the pulses racing, and a very classy little bird it is too!
#ScillyBirds
This pied crow initially arrived on St. Mary’s for a day in late December before returning in February, settling in Old Town where it has been residing now for the past fortnight.
Some interesting decisions to be made on the recent ‘influx’ of the species in to Europe!
#ScillyBirds #rarebirdsuk
Some interesting decisions to be made on the recent ‘influx’ of the species in to Europe!
#ScillyBirds #rarebirdsuk
March 5, 2025 at 12:14 PM
This pied crow initially arrived on St. Mary’s for a day in late December before returning in February, settling in Old Town where it has been residing now for the past fortnight.
Some interesting decisions to be made on the recent ‘influx’ of the species in to Europe!
#ScillyBirds #rarebirdsuk
Some interesting decisions to be made on the recent ‘influx’ of the species in to Europe!
#ScillyBirds #rarebirdsuk
Feels slightly unreal being back on Scilly after 22 years. Saw the Wilson's Phalarope and Rosy Starling, but it was Cetti's Warbler and Cattle Egret that were Scilly ticks! #ukbirding
October 3, 2025 at 8:28 AM
Another reason for visiting the Isles of Scilly (UK) is the opportunity of being up close with the large shearwaters and other sea-birds which are increasingly in these south west waters for some months of the year, thanks to Joe and the Scilly Pelagics team...🪶🐬 #ukbirding
#scillypelagics
#scillypelagics
October 3, 2025 at 8:27 AM
An eastern-themed end to a pleasant and settled October on Scilly #ScillyBirds #UKbirding
November 1, 2024 at 7:35 PM
An eastern-themed end to a pleasant and settled October on Scilly #ScillyBirds #UKbirding
A great end to the week working on Tresco finding a pallid swift hawking around between the Abbey & Great Pool. Another top addition to a good start to Nov across the islands with two Pallas’s warblers, Richard’s pipit, dusky warbler, OBP, Rbfly & RND arriving in the last two days! #ScillyBirds
November 7, 2025 at 8:36 PM
A great end to the week working on Tresco finding a pallid swift hawking around between the Abbey & Great Pool. Another top addition to a good start to Nov across the islands with two Pallas’s warblers, Richard’s pipit, dusky warbler, OBP, Rbfly & RND arriving in the last two days! #ScillyBirds
Scilly’s first EYEBROWED THRUSH in 32 years!
A real Scilly ‘Golden Era’ grip back for those of us not fortunate enough, or old enough, to be around for the remarkable run of SIX through the 80s & 90s.
A proper stonker of a bird & a long overdue mega eastern thrush for the islands!
#ScillyBirds
A real Scilly ‘Golden Era’ grip back for those of us not fortunate enough, or old enough, to be around for the remarkable run of SIX through the 80s & 90s.
A proper stonker of a bird & a long overdue mega eastern thrush for the islands!
#ScillyBirds
October 23, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Scilly’s first EYEBROWED THRUSH in 32 years!
A real Scilly ‘Golden Era’ grip back for those of us not fortunate enough, or old enough, to be around for the remarkable run of SIX through the 80s & 90s.
A proper stonker of a bird & a long overdue mega eastern thrush for the islands!
#ScillyBirds
A real Scilly ‘Golden Era’ grip back for those of us not fortunate enough, or old enough, to be around for the remarkable run of SIX through the 80s & 90s.
A proper stonker of a bird & a long overdue mega eastern thrush for the islands!
#ScillyBirds
I was just passing so thought it'd be rude not to take another look at the Wilson's Phalarope Porth Hellick St Mary's Scilly #ukbirding
October 3, 2025 at 8:27 AM
October 3, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Nice views of the Wilson’s Phalarope today on Porthellick Pool, Scilly. 1st October ‘25.
My first for Scilly and seventh overall for Cornwall.
#cornwallbirding #birding
My first for Scilly and seventh overall for Cornwall.
#cornwallbirding #birding
October 3, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Nice to find this Rustic Bunting with the Mrs this evening on St Martin’s, Isles of Scilly. A subtle bird, in some ways, compared to obvious autumn males. Looks to be same bird found on St Agnes yesterday when comparing feather details. #ScillyBirding
October 3, 2025 at 8:26 AM
October 3, 2025 at 8:26 AM
Juvenile Spotted Sandpiper St Agnes Scilly #ukbirding
October 3, 2025 at 8:26 AM