A recent visit to the Isles of Scilly was mainly for pelagic trips - but it wasn't all rolling about on the high seas - some of the time was spent on dry land, wandering around the wader hotspots of St Mary's in the hope of turning up a rare one - no joy on that score but some good photo opportunities in any case with more common species.
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| Greenshank, Porth Hellick pool |
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| One of 15 Greenshank present |
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| An obliging bird in front of the Stephen Sussex hide |
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| A rare opportunity to get this close... |
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| ...sometimes even closer |
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| Part of the flock which remained mostly sedentary during my several visits |
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| Green Sandpiper on the small pool at Lower Moors. |
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| I've seen Solitary Sandpiper on this same bit of mud, so good to get the species pair on the pool list |
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| A lone Dunlin was also at Lower Moors... |
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| ..as was a single Common Snipe |
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| Away from the water, this Northern Wheatear was on Peninnis Head |
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| Northern Wheatear |
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| A different Northern Wheatear on the photogenic heath around St Mary's airfield |
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| Migrants were few and far between but this Willow Warbler was at Porth Hellick |
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| Meadow Pipit, Peninnis: one of not many passerine on St Mary's during the first half of last week |
Friends have noted the decrease in wordage relative to pictures on this blog recently. Sorry about that, since returning from the above holiday I have been pretty focused on getting to grips with a new role at work, which has left me a bit bereft of time and energy (in a good way) to compose anything more than the sort of 'today I did this and saw that' kind of posts which I generally try to avoid. Fortunately, my new job is providing a rich vein of potential comic material. Unfortunately, were I to publish it, it might not be 'my new job' for much longer. So you'll just have to wait for the diaries...
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