Cream-coloured Courser - Cursorius cursor - 1st winter
St.Martin�s, Isles of Scilly
2nd October 2004.

The first British record for 20 years.
A bird of arid grasslands and deserts, breeding from the Canary Islands, eastwards across to North and East Africa into Iraq and then from southwest Asia towards Afghanistan.

This bird was first discovered on St.Agnes on Tuesday 28th September. It was only on St.Agnes for a short time before it then disappeared. It was eventually rediscovered on St.Martin�s
on 29th September. Fortunately remaining long enough for me to visit the Islands on 2nd October. A mythical bird that performed well showing down to 15-20 feet on occasions.

These pictures were digiscoped using Nikon Coolpix 995 and Leica Televid Telescope.