Scillies - Day One
An inauspicious start to a fortnight on Scillies naturally filled high with anticipation. A thankfully uneventful drive down on Friday freed up Saturday morning for an opportunity to connect with something on the mainland.
A Red-eyed Vireo had been showing at times at Church Cove for the past three days but typically decided to move on with the morning drawing a blank with only a vocal Firecrest in the pines providing any interest.
The afternoon flight across to Scilly is always exhilarating, bouncing along the corridor for the short hop across to the Isles.
The breeze was mild with rain in the air, but the views across the rocky outcrop from Penninis Head is what I had been longing for during the preceding months.
Ochre plumaged first year Northern Wheatear scampered along the headland. Tracking back, and not too far down the Penninis Trail, a juvenile Red-backed Shrike hunkered low down in the bracken in an attempt to evade the October gloom.
A couple of Greenshank flew out from the shore of the Old Town bay.
A Red-eyed Vireo had been showing at times at Church Cove for the past three days but typically decided to move on with the morning drawing a blank with only a vocal Firecrest in the pines providing any interest.
An afternoon walk along familiar tracks conjured up a real sense of returning, an archipelago that provides the perfect oasis from the tedium of modern politics and frantic activity of modern life.
Ochre plumaged first year Northern Wheatear scampered along the headland. Tracking back, and not too far down the Penninis Trail, a juvenile Red-backed Shrike hunkered low down in the bracken in an attempt to evade the October gloom.
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