Just back from a fortnight on Isles of Scilly.
Memories made & laughs had with friends & fellow birders.
Highlights included, Mourning Dove - Britain's first.
Eyebrowed Thrush, Eurasian Hoopoe, American Pipit, Spotted Sandpiper & Common Rosefinch.
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Orca x3 on #Scillypelagics
Cory's and Great Shearwaters
Great Shearwater
Great Shearwaters
Great Shearwater
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
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Blue Shark (Prionace glauca) caught for tagging, release and scientific research.
#wildlife #birding #cornwall #islesofscilly #scillypelagics #shark #blueshark #jaws
Catching a Blue Shark (Prionace glauca) for tagging & release (scientific research), Isles of Scilly
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Three Wilson’s storm-petrel. Near two individuals both fresh juvs., distant bird a moulting adult.
Cory’s shearwater
Sooty shearwater
Manx shearwater
More excellent pelagic birding off Scilly yesterday with 6 Wilson’s storm-petrels, 6 Cory’s, 1 great & 1 sooty shearwater, amongst dozens of local Euro stormies & Manxies.
Getting ‘the big three’, & multiple Wilson’s in one photo frame, in June is absurd!
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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
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
Cory’s Shearwater
Bonxie
Great Shearwater
Sooty Shearwater
Great week on the Scillies. Hope to be back next year. Pelagic trip was my highlight with good views of Sooty, Cory’s and Giant Shearwaters, plus Bonxies, Yellow leg gulls and Common Dolphins #scillybirds #scillypelagics
