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Scott Reid @scottinscilly.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

08-14 March & 05-11 April now both FULLY BOOKED 🛑 Limited spaces remaining for 01-07 March & 12-18 April ✅ Any enquiries or questions please feel free to send me a message! Also a new updated website coming soon 🙌

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Scott Reid @scottinscilly.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

BOOK NOW! Cape Verde Pelagics - Spring 2027 🇨🇻 The Ultimate Western Palearctic Pelagics! - Four full day pelagics - Night excursion to Cape Verde Petrel colony - Full day land tour of Fogo - Six-nights clifftop B&B accommodation Visit www.windshearbirding.com for more info, dates & booking!

Cape Verde Petrel - we will see 60-80 of these spectacular Pterodromas each day, with up to 20 possible together around the boat at times.

Black-capped Petrel - records of this enigmatic Pterodroma are increasing, and now expected, in the waters around Cape Verde

Cape Verde Storm-petrel - a notoriously elusive Cape Verde endemic

Boyd’s Shearwater - we’re treated to streams of these charismatic small shearwaters each evening on our return to land as they approach their colonies in good number

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Damien Farine @damienfarine.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Craziest bird during field work, a Wilson's storm-petrel far from its natural habitat. At first I thought "weird how that swallow is behaving like a storm-petrel!" 🤯

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Peter Howlett @cardiffbirder.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

5 species of storm petrel in one shot and there's potential for even more in this particular neck of the woods - the eastern Pacific off the coast of Peru #SuperSeabirdSunday #Birds Elliot's Storm Petrel Wedge-rumped Storm Petrel Ringed Storm Petrel Markham's Storm Petrel Least Storm Petrel

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Scott Reid @scottinscilly.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

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Scott Reid @scottinscilly.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

A very lovely Little Bittern at Porth Hellick this afternoon… another nice addition to what’s been a pleasant spring on Scilly with some great birding! Still a decent number of golden orioles and turtle doves around also 🙌☀️ #ScillyBirds

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Scott Reid @scottinscilly.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Spaces still available for Cape Verde Pelagics 07-13 May!!... One of the best pelagic birding experiences in the Western Palearctic! Follow the link below or send me a message for more information on the pelagics, bookings and travel logistics to Fogo. www.windshearbirding.com/_files/ugd/4...

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Scott Reid @scottinscilly.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

Cape Verde Pelagics - March 2026 was a resounding success! Two weeklong pelagic package tours provided unrivalled views of the archipelagos endemic seabirds including the spectacular Cape Verde petrel, as well as discovering rarities including masked booby, black-capped petrel & black-headed heron!

White-faced storm-petrel (Pelagodroma marina eadesi)

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Scott Reid @scottinscilly.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

*NEW* Cape Verde Pelagics 🇨🇻 March 2026 - only 2 spaces left on this exciting pelagic package trip in the southwest corner of the Western Palearctic! 4 full-day pelagics, night visit to a Pterodroma feae colony, day tour of Fogo - based in the town of São Filipe. Info at www.windshearbirding.com

Black-capped petrel (Pterodroma hasitata) - rare and enigmatic in the Western Palearctic, recorded with increasing frequency in Cape Verdean waters.

Cape Verde Petrel (Pterodroma feae) - endemic breeder common in the waters around Fogo

White-faced storm-petrel (Pelagodroma marina eadesi) - one of the most photogenic North Atlantic seabirds, this endemic sub-species is common in the waters around Fogo.

Cape Verde Storm-Petrel (Hydrobates jabejabe) - a large, powerful storm-petrel endemic to Cape Verde. Breeding in their 1000s on the nearby Rombos Islands, but notoriously elusive at sea.

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Mark Lewis @fatpaulscholes.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Christmas can be an expensive time of year, so how about something for free? The @scottishbirding.bsky.social and Scottish Birds Records Committee are hosting a FREE online conference over the evenings of February 24th to the 26th. Three talks per night and some real belters among them.

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Scott Reid @scottinscilly.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

A great end to the week working on Tresco finding a pallid swift hawking around between the Abbey & Great Pool. Another top addition to a good start to Nov across the islands with two Pallas’s warblers, Richard’s pipit, dusky warbler, OBP, Rbfly & RND arriving in the last two days! #ScillyBirds

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Scott Reid @scottinscilly.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

I have 3 spaces available for the 2026 Challenger Expedition to the continental shelf edge in British waters. See images below for more information, dates and contact details… #seabirds #UKbirding

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Scott Reid @scottinscilly.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

Scilly’s first EYEBROWED THRUSH in 32 years! A real Scilly ‘Golden Era’ grip back for those of us not fortunate enough, or old enough, to be around for the remarkable run of SIX through the 80s & 90s. A proper stonker of a bird & a long overdue mega eastern thrush for the islands! #ScillyBirds

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Scott Reid @scottinscilly.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

After two frustrating days the secrets of the St. Agnes mourning dove were finally revealed today! First for Scilly, first for England, sixth for Britain! A real heavyweight nearctic mega to get the pulses racing, and a very classy little bird it is too! #ScillyBirds

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Peter Stronach @macstronach.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

Just back from a pelagic trip out to the Whittard Canyon area on the continental shelf edge with @scillypelagics.bsky.social @scottinscilly.bsky.social @nomadbirder.bsky.social Madeiran Storm Petrel reclassified from MEGA!!! to scarce summer visitor in one evening with 84 counted last night! 😂

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Scott Reid @scottinscilly.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

A couple of lovely nearctic waders recently delivered to Scilly by the early autumn westerly gales. Pectoral sandpiper, Porth Hellick. Buff-breasted sandpiper, St. Mary’s Airfield. #ScillyBirds #RareBirdsUK #ukbirding

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Scott Reid @scottinscilly.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

Western Bonelli’s Warbler, present for its sixth day, showing very well in the Garrison Dead Pines this morning. Scilly’s 34th record of WBW - undoubtedly one of, if not the, most reliable place to see the species in Britain. #ScillyBirds #RareBirdsUK #UKbirding

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Scott Reid @scottinscilly.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

Two lovely nudibranchs from Porthcressa Bay, Isles of Scilly. White-sparkled facelina (Facelina annulicornis) Four-lined polycera (Polycera quadriliniata) #MarineLife #UKWildlife

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Scott Reid @scottinscilly.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

The excellent start to the Scilly Pelagic season continued last night with a great showing of 20 Wilson’s storm-petrels, 14 Cory’s shearwaters, and a 1s Sabine’s gull #seabirds #scillybirds #ukbirding

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Scott Reid @scottinscilly.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

Our 10 year old son, Orkney, will attempt his first triathlon today on the Isles of Scilly 💪 raising money for Marine Conservation Society 🦑 and Island Haven ☀️ He will swim 0.5km 🏊 , cycle 20km 🚲 and run 10km 🏃‍♂️ Please sponsor him and show him your support 🙌 givestar.io/gs/orkneys-f...

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Scott Reid @scottinscilly.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

A superb Scilly stormie session last night with 35 European storm-petrels ringed & released in just under two hours, a good total considering a 77% waxing moon. Our small team of helpers did a brilliant job, several of them enjoying their first ever stormie experience 🙌 #seabirds #ukbirding

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Scott Reid @scottinscilly.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

#WorldSeabirdDay Back in March I visited Fogo where, during c.50hrs birding at sea & a night of research in the foothills of Pico do Fogo, I enjoyed the most intimate of experiences with the ultimate seabird - the Fea’s Petrel (Pterodroma feae). A lifelong ambition fulfilled 🇨🇻 #Seabirds

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Scott Reid @scottinscilly.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

More excellent pelagic birding off Scilly yesterday with 6 Wilson’s storm-petrels, 6 Cory’s, 1 great & 1 sooty shearwater, amongst dozens of local Euro stormies & Manxies. Getting ‘the big three’, & multiple Wilson’s in one photo frame, in June is absurd! #ScillyPelagics #Seabirds #UKbirding 🪶

Three Wilson’s storm-petrel. Near two individuals both fresh juvs., distant bird a moulting adult.

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Scott Reid @scottinscilly.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

Wilson’s storm-petrels are steadily making their way in. Three on tonight’s Scilly Pelagic - two moulting adults and one fresh juv. - alongside 30 or so European storm-petrels. Two early Sabine’s gulls were a welcome bonus #ScillyPelagics #ScillyBirds #Seabirds

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Scott Reid @scottinscilly.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

Tenerife blue chaffinch at Las Lajas yesterday. Bold, charismatic, vocal and confiding… they lived up to the hype! 5-6 birds in total around the drinking pools and picnic area.

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Scott Reid @scottinscilly.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

Nice surprise only a couple of hours after arriving in Cornwall yesterday evening finding a gull-billed tern at Loe Pool. Always distant in poor light, but a cool bird nonetheless. Ironically the last one in Britain was just 100 yards from my front door, at Porthcressa last August! #CornwallBirds

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Scott Reid @scottinscilly.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Enjoyable rockpooling in Scilly this week, the highlight being this superb Polycera quadrilineata which performed beautifully for our safari group #ScillyRockpools #Nudibranchs 🦑

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Scott Reid @scottinscilly.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

A little ray of Scilly sunshine… Male citrine wagtail on Bryher this evening. A top spring find by John O’Sullivan earlier in the day! Amazingly my first male citrine wagtail ever, anywhere! 🙌 #ScillyBirds

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Scott Reid @scottinscilly.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

News from Fogo this afternoon that the lights will be turned off from today, thanks to swift action and communication by the Projecto Vito team 🙌

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scillypelagics.bsky.social @scillypelagics.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Am switching from Twitter and putting my last few posts from Twitter onto BlueSky: 2 Black-capped Petrels from pelagic, 4 miles west of Sao Filipe, Fogo, 21 March, around boat for 27 minutes by first last photo. This photo by Kirk Zufelt. #seabirds

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scillypelagics.bsky.social @scillypelagics.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Mist netting Cape Verde Petrel Pterodroma feae, 21 March, in conjunction with research of Projecto Vitó Cabo Verde (on Fogo) - Herculano Dinis, Jacob Gonzales Solis and team. 23 birds processed. Much learning. #seabirds

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Scott Reid @scottinscilly.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

An exceptional first 3 (of 7) days pelagic seabirding off Fogo, Cape Verde with 18+ hours spent at sea and c.150km traveled so far. Many highlights, but this mornings black-capped petrels steal the headlines… undoubtedly the best ever views of the species in the Western Palearctic! #seabirds

Black-capped petrel, 5km west of São Filipe

White-faced storm-petrel, 12km SE of Brava

Cape Verde Petrel, 8km SSW of São Filipe

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Scott Reid @scottinscilly.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

First day on Fogo & an early morning seawatch from our São Filipe apartment balcony… no less than five minutes in & a black-capped petrel flies through my scope!! Large numbers of Fea’s petrels, Cape Verde shearwaters, red-billed tropicbirds, and a Boyd’s shear also. This afternoon we go to sea 🌊

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Scott Reid @scottinscilly.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

This pied crow initially arrived on St. Mary’s for a day in late December before returning in February, settling in Old Town where it has been residing now for the past fortnight. Some interesting decisions to be made on the recent ‘influx’ of the species in to Europe! #ScillyBirds #rarebirdsuk

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Scott Reid @scottinscilly.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

I have one space available on the 2025 Challenger Expedition to the continental shelf edge. The 2024 trip yielded Madeiran storm-petrels, barolo shearwaters, a fea’s-type petrel & much more, all in British waters. Sept 14th-22nd from Plymouth. Email scottreid.scilly@gmail.com for more info #seabirds

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Scott Reid @scottinscilly.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

A pleasant start to the birding year on the Isles of Scilly. Nothing remarkable currently, but plenty of chiffchaffs on the beaches, a couple of long-staying great egrets, a handful of black redstarts & plenty of ducks, divers & seabirds offshore are keeping it all ticking over #ScillyBirds

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Scott Reid @scottinscilly.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

Pied crow around Hugh Town this afternoon! Can’t say I saw that coming, even with one lingering at Land’s End. The 26 mile sea crossing certainly adds intrigue when assessing the likelihood of them hopping the Strait of Gibraltar or the Channel. Regardless of origin, a very cool bird! #ScillyBirds

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