Birds
This was a pretty good year for birds with several major rarities turning up, 2 new British birds for me and 3 for Alison. We saw 108 species on Scilly or from pelagic trips from Scilly. We had 29 year-ticks on the trip, unusually high largely because we hadn't visited any coastal sites on our trips earlier in the year.
Scillonian 16/09: Gannet [yr✔️], Cory's Shearwater [yr✔️], Manx Shearwater [yr✔️], Fulmar [yr✔️], Kittiwake [yr✔️], Arctic Skua [yr✔️], Sandwich Tern [yr✔️], Shag [yr✔️], Razorbill [yr✔️]
Scillonian 16/09: Gannet [yr✔️], Cory's Shearwater [yr✔️], Manx Shearwater [yr✔️], Fulmar [yr✔️], Kittiwake [yr✔️], Arctic Skua [yr✔️], Sandwich Tern [yr✔️], Shag [yr✔️], Razorbill [yr✔️]
Scilly bird list
Pink-footed Goose
Mute Swan Gadwall Garganey [yr✔️] Pintail Mallard Teal Red-legged Partridge Pheasant Feral Pigeon Wood Pigeon Stock Dove Collared Dove Water Rail (h) [yr✔️] Moorhen Coot Oystercatcher Ringed Plover Dotterel (Bryher 03/10) [yr✔️] Whimbrel [yr✔️] Curlew Bar-tailed Godwit Turnstone Sanderling Pectoral Sandpiper (St Mary's 20/09) Dunlin Ruff Snipe Common Sandpiper Greenshank Redshank Grey Phalarope (pelagic 23/09) [yr✔️] Black-headed Gull Mediterranean Gull Herring Gull Lesser Black-backed Gull Great Black-backed Gull Sandwich Tern Common Tern SOUTH POLAR SKUA (pelagic 23/09) [UK✔️] Grea Skua (pelagic 23/09) [yr✔️] Arctic Skua Guillemot [yr✔️] Razorbill Gannet RED-FOOTED BOOBY (Bishop Rock 08/10) [UK✔️] Great Shearwater (pelagic 23/09) [yr✔️] Cory's Shearwater (pelagic 23/09) Sooty Shearwater (pelagic 23/09) [yr✔️] Manx Shearwater(pelagic 23/09) Fulmar European Storm-petrel (pelagic 29/09) [yr✔️] Cormorant Shag Glossy Ibis (St Mary's 26/09) [yr✔️] Grey Heron Little Egret Sparrowhawk Kingfisher Wryneck (self-found) (St Mary's 17/09) [yr✔️] Kestrel Peregrine |
Crow
Red-backed Shrike (St Mary's 19/09) [yr✔️] Short-toed Lark (St Agnes 25/09) [yr✔️] Barn Swallow House Martin Sand Martin Cliff Swallow (St Mary's 20/09) [yr✔️] Blue Tit Great Tit Wren Goldcrest Firecrest (St Mary's 17/09 & 04/10) [yr✔️] Cetti's Warbler Chiffchaff Willow Warbler Wood Warbler (St Mary's 17&21/09) [yr✔️] Blackcap Lesser Whitethroat Reed Warbler Melodious Warbler (Bryher 03/10) [yr✔️] Spotted Flycatcher Robin Pied Flycatcher (St Mary's 16&17/09) [yr✔️] Red-breasted Flycatcher (St Mary's 04&05/10) [yr✔️] Redstart Whinchat [yr✔️] Stonechat Wheatear Nightingale [yr✔️] Song Thrush Blackbird Starling Rose-coloured Starling (St Mary's 04/10) [yr✔️] Dunnock Grey Wagtail Yellow Wagtail White Wagtail (St Mary's 18/09) [yr✔️] Meadow Pipit Rock Pipit Chaffinch Greenfinch Linnet Goldfinch Common Rosefinch (St Mary's 30/09 & 05/10) [yr✔️] House Sparrow NORTHERN PARULA (St Martins 26/09 [yr✔️] [UK✔️ for Alison] BOBOLINK 2 (St Mary's 30/09 & 05/10) [yr✔️] [UK✔️ for Alison] |