Scott Reid
@stmarys_patch
Birds, pelagics & rockpools on the Isles of Scilly
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http://www.scillyrockpoolsafaris.co.uk 05-05-2011 15:45:33
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Hilariously, after 45 mins of photographing a green glow on the horizon, my camera died moments before it ‘got good’!
Sitting on rocks with the sea lapping, on Scilly, in May, in my shorts, with the Aroura overhead, isn’t an experience I’d considered possible 🤩 #NorthernLights
Excellent rockpool safari this morning with two clients enjoying a scarcely seen common spider crab & the nudibranch four-lined polycera when a small flock of bubbling BEE-EATERS arrived off the sea & flew inland! Scilly at its resplendent best ☀️🙌 #ScillyBirds #ScillyRockpools
Thank you again for the quick turnaround and invaluable service Martin Collinson #BLM 🙏🙌
Hopefully there’ll be some more exciting 💩 on the horizon 😄🤞
Dragged DNA sequence kicking and screaming from poop of the putative Mediterranean Flycatcher from Scilly, 16/17 April and sadly it turned out to be boring old Spotted Fly. RareBirdAlertUK BirdGuides __BBRC Scott Reid
An exceptional few days for raptors continued y’day as a BLACK KITE arrived on St. Mary’s. The Montagu’s harrier toured again, & the adult purple heron clung on to life, just. Golden orioles, woodchats, & Richard’s pipit remain, & a stone curlew was new on St. Agnes #ScillyBirds
The settled weekend weather gave way to a big westerly front today, and the ocean provided! A group rummaging session yielded five Columbus crabs and six(!) Fiona pinnata - only the second recorded occurrence of this rare pelagic nudibranch on Scilly! #oceandrifters
Exceptional arrival across Scilly over the last 24 hours - pallid swift, night herons, purple herons, R-r swallow, woodchat shrike, hen harrier, R-n duck & 7+ golden orioles!! As always, I couldn’t see it all, but after seeing this scene below, little else mattered! #ScillyBirds
Fabulous Uko Gorter poster of all 24 of the deep-diving, breath holding #beakedwhales & so nice to see the newest, Sato's beaked whale top of the chart next to our fave Baird's beaked whale! Free download bit.ly/3uDckyz Defenders of Wildlife Marine Mammalogy Whale and Dolphin Conservation (WDC)…