Scilly – the final day

St Mary's, Scilly - from the air. Photo by Estuarine Design on Flickr.

by TomMckinney on October 22, 2011 · 0 comments

in Birding Western Palearctic

Two things about this trip to Scilly were inevitable – 1) it would have to end at some point; 2) despite me working my arse off trying to find a Pallas’s Warbler, someone else would beat me to it by finding one on the island of Bryher yesterday. Not that I’m complaining, I mean with a trip over to Tresco yesterday, this is the list of star birds we’ve seen over the last eight days:

Northern Waterthrush
Wilson’s Snipe
Upland Sandpiper
2 Olive-backed Pipits
Red-throated Pipit
3 Black Kites
Subalpine Warbler
2 Lesser Yellowlegs
Melodious Warbler
Bluethroat
Spotted Crake
Pectoral Sandpiper
5 Yellow-browed Warblers
5 Firecrests

And obviously let’s not forget my luvverly monster-rare Treecreeper.

“I mean it, Tom, don’t you dare post that photo of me on one of your stupid blog posts”

So that’s it for Scilly 2011. We’re flying back to Cornwall early afternoon and then we’ll probably spend all day Sunday standing around not seeing the Scarlet Tanager. Thanks for reading, hope you enjoyed the daily(ish) updates and if you didn’t enjoy them then you need to ask yourself why you kept coming back to read them every night. See you next year, unless the planet gets struck by a massive asteroid and we all die in a split second.

Top Photo: St Mary’s from the air. Photo: Estuarine Design on Flickr

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Article by Tom Mckinney

Tom McKinney has been birding for over 20 years and has birded on every continent, other than the continents he's not yet been to. He is famed for having found Britain's first Gray's Grasshopper Warbler and then waking up and realising it had all been a beautiful, beautiful dream. When not birding he enjoys going to Ladbrokes and writing short biographical entries about himself in a 3rd person voice.

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