Day 4 – Scilly Pelagic.
Sightings:- 2 sooty Shearwater, Arctic skua, 6+ Bonxie, Puffin, 2 Great Northern Diver, 3 Common Scoter,2 Pale-bellied Brent geese and Portuguese Man O’ War.
Great Northern Diver
Bonxie
Portuguese Man O’ War
Gannet
Scilly 2017
Day 3 – Spent the day walking around St Mary’s.
Isabelline Wheatear
Pale-bellied Brent geese
Scilly 2017
Day two on Scilly – Isabelline Wheatear on the airfield, American Golden Plover at Porthellick, Yellow-browed Warbler, Spotted Crake at Lower Moors and brief flight views of Rose-coloured Starling at Buzza Tower. Weather wasn’t great but improved as the day went on.
American Golden Plover
Spotted Crake
Scilly 2017
On the way down to Penzance I stopped at Davidstow Airfield where there was a Buff-breasted Sandpiper and a large film crew in the process of shooting scenes for a film. Someone told me the film is ” The Boy who wanted to be King “.
Once I arrived on St Mary’s I immediately got on another boat to St Agnes and after a couple of hours wait managed to see the Cedar Waxwing. Only the second one I have seen after seeing one in Nottingham in 1996.
Buff-breasted Sandpiper
Cedar Waxwing
White-winged Black Tern
A moulting adult White-winged Black Tern was showing very well this morning at Willow Farm Lake, Tyttenhanger Gravel Pits near London Colney.
Swiss Birds
Best birds seen on this trip were two Lammergeier near Rothorn. There were Yellow-legged Gulls at Lake Geneva, lots of Alpine Chough around the Gornegrat, Nutcrackers, Citril Finch and Crag Martin around Zermatt and Alpine Swifts in Lausanne.
Alpine Chough
Yellow-legged Gulls
Crag Martin
Alpine Swift
Switzerland 2017
A great holiday with my kids in Switzerland. Two nights in Geneva, three nights in Zermatt and a night in Lausanne. Great walks, good weather and nice food. Great place to go.
Geneva
Zermatt
