Wilsons Snipe.On the 3rd of November it was the last day of my two week holiday on the magical isles of Scilly and as the boat back to penzance was leaving at 2oclock my partner Kerry and i decided not to stray too far so we decided to bird lower moors for the morning .After watching Snipe for the best part of two hours i noticed a Snipe behind the reeds open its wings and immediately noticed an overall dark dusky underwing heavily barred,although hidden by reeds most of the time it did come out into the open where i managed to photograph it preening its tail.As time was running out before we had to get on the boat i informed Spider Kriss Webb that i thought i had a good candidate for a Wilsons i also text Adam Hutt some images off the back of my camera and he also thought it looked promising .Since then i have had some expert feed back who agree.Spider has today relocated the bird and got some amazing images,visit his blog to view at Scilly spider.

Cedar Waxwing ,St Agnes Isles of Scilly .

Sorry for the lack of posts recently ,here is a selection of birds seen on the Hayle estuary over the last two or three months.

 Juvenile Yellow Legged Gull.

 Left bird with juvenile Herring Gull .

 Middle bird with Herring Gulls.

 On the right with juvenile Herring Gull.

 On the left with Juvenile Herring Gull.

 Common Tern.

 Pectoral Sandpiper a brief fly through on the 18 th of August.

 First calendar year Yellow Legged Gull.

 As above.

 As above.

 Juvenile Kittiwake.

 First calendar year Yellow Legged Gull.

 Below with Herring Gull above.

Greenshank.

Juvenile Yellow legged Gull Hayle Estuary tuesday.

 A classic bird and a good opportunity to note some key features,note the deep heavy based bill with a pronounced gonydeal angle and hooked tip,long looking rear end and long legs, it was a brute of a bird so presumably a male.

 The neat black tail band and white upper tail coverts with internal blackish markings stand out well here as does the paler head with the dark eye mask.

 The dark brown tertials with neat fine pale edges are obvious in this shot.

 Note the lack of an obvious pale window on the inner primaries and the white edging  to the wing coverts giving it a scaled look.

The under tail coverts ,white with widely spaced black barring show well here.

Amur Falcon first summer female at Polgigga this morning at 5.30 am .

Presumed second summer/third calendar year Yellow Legged Gull on the Hayle estuary yesterday morning.

 Drake Gadwall

 Adult Mediterranean Gull in summer plumage.

 Buzzard.

 Swift over my back garden.

House Martin.