Scilly Season has officially arrived! A selection of sightings from the evenings log at the Scillonian Club included:
Isabelline Wheatear – 1 on St. Mary’s Airfield.
Rose-breasted Grosbeak – 1 St. Agnes.
Red-eyed Vireo – 1 in the Parsonage, St. Agnes.
Bee-eater – 3 in the Abbey Gardens, Tresco.
American Golden Plover – 1 still on Airfield/Porth Hellick Beach.
Pectoral Sandpiper – 1 on Porth Hellick Pool.
Wryneck – 1 on Tresco and 1 on St. Agnes.
Yellow-browed Warbler – 1 on Lower Broome, Garrison, 1 at Trenoweth and 1 in the Dump Clump.
Firecrest – 4 on St. Agnes and 1 in Carreg Dhu Gardens.
Pink-footed Goose – 6 Tresco.
Whimbrel – 1 on Porthloo Beach.
Bar-tailed Godwit – 3 on Porthloo Beach and 1 on Bryher.
Mediterranean Gull – 5 Bryher.
Hooded Crow – 1 on Bryher.
Spotted Flycatcher – 1 in Old Town Churchyard, 1 Newford Duck Pond, 3 on Bryher and 2 at the Parsonage, St. Agnes.
Pied Flycatcher – 2 Newford Duck Pond, 1 Carreg Dhu Gardens, 1 Sunnyside, 1 Bryher and 2 St. Agnes.
Whinchat 1 Dump Clump and 2 on Bryher.
Yellow Wagtail – 5 Lower Moors.
White Wagtail – 2 Porthloo Beach.