Back from a week on the Scillies with Sandwich Bay Bird Observatory smoothly led by Ken Chapman.Two long coach journeys and two lumpy crossings on the Scillonian 111 were sandwiched by six days at the Tregarthen Hotel on St Marys and day trips to St Agnes,Tresco and St Martins.
Here is a daily pictorial account of the trip;-
Day 1 St Agnes- After twitching the Orphean Warbler from a distance had a pleasant walk round the island.
BISHOP ROCK LIGHTHOUSE
THE TURKS HEAD FOR A PINT AND A PASTIE FOR LUNCH.
MODERN STAINED GLASS IN THE CHURCH
PORTRUGESE MAN O WAR
ROCKS ON ST AGNES
WHINCHAT
WHINCHAT
OYSTERCATCHER ON THE ROCKS OUTSIDE THE HOTEL
I don`t recall seeing quite such a dog collar on an oyk before but it is winter plumage.
DAY 2 TRESCO
TRESCO ABBEY GARDENS
RED SQUIRREL
COMMA
PEACOCK
RED ADMIRAL
GOLDEN PHEASANTS
GOLDEN PHEASANTS
THE NEW INN TRESCO
DAY 3 OPHELIA TAKES OVER -A HIKE AROUND ST MARYS
PLENTY OF WAVES CRASHING ON THE ROCKS
When we got back from our walk a twitch had just started below the hotel a LEACHES PETREL was doing battle with the storm in the bay,eventually got a couple of long range record shots.
LEACHES PETREL is no bigger than a house martin and spends most of its life doing battle with the oceans.
THE BISHOP AND WOLF NAMED AFTER THE TWO LIGHTHOUSES
DAY4 ST MARTINS A long walk from end to end
SCILLY COW
DAYMARK ON ST MARTINS
SEVEN STONES INN It was near the seven stones lightship that the Torrey Canyon came to grief in 1967.
OSPREY Coming to pick us up.
PIED FLYCATCHER FOUND AT THE GARRISON
BISHOPS ROCK LIGHTHOUSE.
DAY5 ST MARYS
HAROLD WILSONS GRAVE
THE COASTAL PATH PASSES THE END OF THE RUNWAY. Just round the corner found two RING OUZELS but they were too flighty for pics.
ANOTHER PMOW
AMERICAN GOLDEN PLOVER
AGP
AGP
AGP
AGP
AGP
AGP
SNIPE
SNIPE
SNIPE
SONG THRUSH Lots of these on St Marys
and STARLINGS.
STARLING.
DAY 6
THE LOCAL EMERGENCY AMBULANCE
GANNET
ATLANTIC GREY SEAL
STARLING
STONECHAT
THE ATLANTIC HOTEL was the best of the three pubs
THE MERMAID.
TIME TO GO HOME.....Before Brian arrives
SCILLONIAN 111
WOLF ROCK LIGHTHOUSE.
