Scilly - 7.10.17

Me (baldy) and Brendon (cap) on the boat to Aggy!

Rock Snowman

View from our flat

After yesterdays phone call about potential flight disruption we decided to go to the airport anyway rather than ringing and as we approached the fog hot and so it was the Scillonian for us! A coach transported us to Penzance to catch the ferry and 2 hours and 40 minutes of choppy seas awaited us! Good news was that I wasn't sick and after speaking to Lucy McRobert there was a boat waiting for us on arrival to take us to St.Agnes! Bad news was that the Cliff Swallow had left Scilly and was seen for 20 minutes at Porthgwarra where we had been the previous day! I'm beginning to think they don't like me!

We walked straight off the Scillonian and onto the smaller boat and after a power walk to St.Warna's cove we found out our target was still there but elusive. 2 hours later and with only a Wheatear for company a few people had had poor views of it deep in a bush but eventually it stopped raining and brightened up enough for the bird to suddenly appear at the top of the bush in full view for 10 seconds before vanishing again. My first ever UK CEDAR WAXWING! Happy we got any views we walked back to get the boat but just then a lot of small birds were flying around over us and Ricky said what's that? It was a Short-eared Owl being mobbed by the small birds and became my 200th species for the year!