Dr Adrian Colston
@dartmoorac.bsky.social
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Self-employed ecologist and a rural social scientist worrying about Dartmoor: wildlife, hill-farmers, archaeology, peat & wilding. Also Associate Research Fellow Centre for Rural Policy Research at the University of Exeter And Scilly!
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Earlier I incorrectly posted this bird as a Black Redstart as it was flitting around on a beach frequented by that species - it is in fact a female Common Redstart! Thanks to those who put me right ....
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Some birds feeding on the flies in the seaweed, Porth Killier, St Agnes: Grey Wagtail, Dunnock, Meadow Pipit and Rock Pipit
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Mourning Dove yesterday evening before it went off to roost #islesofscilly
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There are two other American vagrants on St Agnes in additional to the Mourning Dove: Spotted Sandpiper and Buff-bellied American Pipit #islesofscilly
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Hoopoe on Periglis beach St Agnes #islesofscilly
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Turtle Dove - Lower Town Farm, St Agnes #islesofscilly
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Mourning Dove - Lower Town Farm, St Agnes #islesofscilly
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Female Stonechat on St Mary's today #islesofscilly
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Always love a trip to the Tresco Abbey Gardens for the squirrels! They appear to be spreading beyond the gardens now - one seen today at Borough Farm! #islesofscilly
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Incredibly close views of the Wilson's Phalarope today at Porth Hillock #islesofscilly
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Great White Egret, Grey Heron, Ruff and a Water Rail - St Mary's today #islesofscilly
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A day on St Martins #islesofscilly A nice Knot, some Sanderling, a Raven and a Crimson Speckled
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Prickly Stick Insect (Acanthoxyla geisovii), Common Darter dragonfly, Western Seed Conifer Bug (US species naturalist in UK 2007) and a migrant Painted Lady butterfly St Mary's #islesofscilly
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Revisited the Wilson's Phalarope and also saw a Rose-coloured Starling and a lovely Greenshank and a Brown Rat (who saw me too!) St Mary's #islesofscilly
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9 Cattle Egret flying into St Mary's today at noon
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Early start to see a Wilson's Phalarope (American wader) at Higher Moors which arrived late last evening
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Cory's, Great, (shearwaters), Gannet and Atlantic Grey Seal
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Ocean Sun Fish, Dolphin, Bishop Rock weather station and a seal 10km from the shore
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Purple Sandpipers, Gannet, the Bishop Rock Lighthouse and Shags
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Been out on a pelagic seabird trip way out past the Bishop Rock - 150 Cory's Shearwater and 800 Great Shearwaters (they breed in the southern hemisphere and spend their winter up here in northern waters- many around Scilly)

2 Cory's and two Greats
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Curlew Sandpiper on Porthloo beach - second picture with Sanderling
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Ivy Bee on ivy (!) on St Mary's