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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
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I have 3 spaces available for the 2026 Challenger Expedition to the continental shelf edge in British waters.
See images below for more information, dates and contact details…
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Excellent, and gripping, memories. See my reply to Steve Dudley above, a cracking pic of the Telegraph bird from the 1991 Scilly Review 🙌
23.10.2025 22:02 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
This great photo of the Telegraph bird is in the 1991 review… I’ve also found a photo of the one on Tresco in 1992, but currently struggling to track down a photo of the 1993 bird!
Great to see a rarity with such a rich history in Scilly birding folklore 🙌
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!
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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!
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Just back from a pelagic trip out to the Whittard Canyon area on the continental shelf edge with @scillypelagics.bsky.social @scottinscilly.bsky.social @nomadbirder.bsky.social Madeiran Storm Petrel reclassified from MEGA!!! to scarce summer visitor in one evening with 84 counted last night! 😂
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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.
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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.
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Two lovely nudibranchs from Porthcressa Bay, Isles of Scilly.
White-sparkled facelina (Facelina annulicornis)
Four-lined polycera (Polycera quadriliniata)
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Great effort 🙌
12.08.2025 22:04 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Judging by the length of the skull/jaws it’s most likely a short-beaked common dolphin
10.08.2025 19:20 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0…he is a talented long-distance runner (coastal trail running, not road running) and is incredibly driven and motivated by his personal goals and challenges. We appreciate guidelines, but not everyone fits in the box. We work with him to plan his endurance events based on his ability.
16.07.2025 10:18 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Thanks for your concern. This was not an organised event. My son has been running since he was six years old & has been setting himself endurance challenges since the age of 8. He has to date completed 55km in 5 days, a half marathon, & recently a triathlon, having raised upwards of £8k for charity
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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
15.07.2025 10:12 — 👍 82 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 0😃 Orkney says thank you, Matt 🙏
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Our 10 year old son, Orkney, will attempt his first triathlon today on the Isles of Scilly 💪 raising money for Marine Conservation Society 🦑 and Island Haven ☀️
He will swim 0.5km 🏊 , cycle 20km 🚲 and run 10km 🏃♂️
Please sponsor him and show him your support 🙌
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A superb Scilly stormie session last night with 35 European storm-petrels ringed & released in just under two hours, a good total considering a 77% waxing moon.
Our small team of helpers did a brilliant job, several of them enjoying their first ever stormie experience 🙌
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#WorldSeabirdDay Back in March I visited Fogo where, during c.50hrs birding at sea & a night of research in the foothills of Pico do Fogo, I enjoyed the most intimate of experiences with the ultimate seabird - the Fea’s Petrel (Pterodroma feae).
A lifelong ambition fulfilled 🇨🇻
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