Spotted Crake (M.Goodey)
A selection from Friday’s log:
Sora Rail – Still showing from the Swarovski hide on Tresco.
Cattle Egret – 2 in fields below the Riding Stables.
Arctic Warbler – 1 at Shooters’ Pool.
Olive-backed Pipit – 1 Bryher.
Red-throated Pipit – 1 flew over the Airfield.
Little Bunting – 3 To the right of the Swarovski Hide on Tresco.
Spotted Crake – 1 Porth Hellick Pool.
Barred Warbler – 1 on St. Agnes.
Melodious Warbler – 1 on the Garrison.
Red-breasted Flycatcher – 1 St. Agnes, 1 Bryher and 1 Tresco.
Common Rosefinch – 1 on Bryher.
Wryneck – 2 Peninnis, 1 Old Town, 1 Maypole and 1 Bryher.
Osprey – 1 flew over St. Mary’s then over Tresco and finally over St. Agnes.
Merlin – 1 Garrison, 1 airfield and 1St. Martin’s.
Red-backed Shrike – 1 on the Garrison.
Firecrest – 1 Porth Mellon, 1 Bar Point, 1 Newford Duck Pond, 1 St. Martin’s and 1 on Tresco..
Yellow-browed Warbler – 26 on St. Mary’s. 5 on St. Agnes 9 on Bryher, 5 on St. Martin’s and 9 on Tresco..
Lapland Bunting – 3 on the Airfield, 1 at Maypole and 3 on St. Agnes.
Black-necked Grebe – 1 Porthcressa Bay.
Turtle Dove – 1 Hugh Town.
Pale-bellied Brent Geese – 1 Pentle Bay, Tresco.
Dark-bellied Brent Geese – 1 in the Roads.
Wigeon – 31 Great Pool. Tresco and 1 Porth Hellick Pool.
Pintail – 1 Great Pool Tresco and 1 Abbey Pool Tresco.
Shoveler – 1 Great Pool Tresco.
Common Scoter – 1 Porthcressa and 3 in the Roads.
European Storm-petrel – 1 on a short-range pelagic trip.
Hobby – 1 Maypole and 1 St. Agnes.
Jack Snipe – 12 on Porth Hellick Pool and 9 Lower Moors.
Grey Plover – 5 on St. Martin’s and 4 on the Big Pool, St. Agnes.
Lapwing – 4 Trewince.
Whimbrel – 1 Garrison.
Ruff – 2 on St. Mary’s Airfield.
Black-tailed Godwit – 1 Porth Hellick Pool.
Bar-tailed Godwit – 1 St. Martin’s.
Curlew Sandpiper – 1 St. Agnes and 2 Abbey Pool, Tresco.
Arctic Skua -1 in the Roads.
Pomarine Skua -1 in the Roads.
Great Skua – 1 Gugh and 4 on a short-range pelagic trip.
Mediterranean Gull – 6 in Tresco Channel, 2 Eastern Isles, 2 Garrison and 1 St. Martin’s.
Hooded Crow – 1 St. Martin’s.
Lesser Whitethroat – 1 Old Town, 1 Garrison and 1 Newford Duck Pond. A probable eastern type bird was seen in the evening in the Dead Pine Walk on the Garrison.
Common Whitethroat – 1 on St. Martin’s.
Ring Ouzel – 1 Steval, 2 Garrison and 1 Gugh.
Fieldfare – 1 Longstone.
Mistle Thrush – 1 Tresco.
Redwing– 12 on the St. Mary’s.
Spotted Flycatcher – 3 on the Garrison, 1 in the Dump Clump, 1 on Tresco and 1 on St. Martin’s.
Pied Flycatcher – 2 on St. Mary’s, 3 on St. Martin’s, 2 on Bryher and 2 on Tresco.
Black Redstart – 1 Garrison, 1 Hugh Town, 1 Porthcressa, 3 on St. Agnes and 1 St. Martin’s.
Common Redstart – 6 on St. Mary’s, 1 on St. Martin’s, 1 Bryher and 1 on Tresco.
Whinchat – 12 on St. Mary’s, 3 on St. Martin’s and 7 on Tresco.
Siskin – 2 Newford Duck Pond.