Cream Tea Birding

Since the excitement of the Baird's Sandpiper, the great local birding continues with a nice selection of scarcities. I last saw the Bai...

Well, tonight was exciting on the patch! Literally, the first bird I see at the pools on Little Marsh is a Baird's Sandpiper! Another lo...

Great to find 3 Curlew Sandpipers on yesterday's high tide - Equals my highest count for the patch!

A nice morning on the patch today with a lovely juvenile Curlew Sandpiper and a Sanderling in amongst a group of Ringed Plover and Dunlin, a...

Incredible flocks of 30+ on Scilly today and flocks of over 40+ at Cornish sites, so not surprising that 6 birds dropped into the local patc...

A nice surprise whilst birding the Otter Estuary NR yesterday evening when this Glossy Ibis dropped in and started feeding on Big Marsh nort...

Thanks to local birder Viv Keene, I managed to get a day time view of what is presumably(?) the same Night Heron that I first found back on ...

Following another evening beaver walk on Sunday 15th June, I was walking back to my car and heard what sounded like a Night Heron calling at...

Since the excitement of the Night Heron last month, I thought I would do a quick update on the other exciting news and the joys of being a l...

It has been a while since we visited Scilly in the Spring, so we spent a very enjoyable week 3rd - 10th May 2025 with a great week of weathe...