A lovely sunny day greeted us after yesterdays drizzle so we headed off to the east of St.Mary’s. On the way the first Blackcap of the trip was seen as well as 7 Song Thrushes. For a place where usually Song Thrushes are everywhere they were obvious in their absence so this number albeit small was fairly notable. Viewing from just south of Watermill Cove out towards St.Martin’s I finally managed to pick out the drake Eider sea out on the seaweed on the Ganinick Islands. I put the news out on the WhatsApp group and the CB radio and several birders managed to add it to their Scilly list (including me). Even those who’d been coming far longer then myself.
Eider (honestly!)
From here we went back to Holy Vale where at the second time of asking we saw the Turtle Dove perched in a tree. Every one seen nowadays could be the last due to the hunting of them in Europe.
Turtle Dove
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