A selection from Wednesday’s Bird log:
Cattle Egret – 2 commuting between Sunnyside and Pelistry.
Western Subalpine Warbler – 1 in St. Mary’s Hall Garden, Hugh Town.
Little Bunting – 1 Porth Killier, St. Agnes and 1 Great Pool, Tresco.
Coal Tit – There were 2 sightings of this Scilly rarity: 1 on the Garrison and 1 in Carreg Dhu Gardens.
Short-toed Lark – 1 on the Airfield
Red-breasted Flycatcher – 3 Newford Duck Pond, 1 Carreg Dhu Gardens and 2 St. Agnes.
Red-breasted Flycatcher (K.Webb)
Dotterel – 2 on Shipman Head Down, Bryher.
Wryneck – 3 Peninnis.
Firecrest – 4 on St. Mary’s and 2 on St. Agnes.
Yellow-browed Warbler – 32 across the islands.
Lapland Bunting – 3 on Peninnis, 1 on St. Agnes and 3 on Bryher.
Black-necked Grebe – 1 Town Bay.
Spoonbill -1 flew southeast over Tresco.
Hobby – At least 4 birds on St. Mary’s.
Osprey – 1 St. Martin’s.
Merlin – 3 St. Agnes.
Turtle Dove – 1 on St. Martin’s, had apparently been there for 2 weeks.
Short-eared Owl – 1 on the Golf Course and 1 on Bryher.
Wigeon – 27 on the Great Pool, Tresco.
Pintail – 2 on Great Pool, Tresco.
Common Scoter – 2 Bar Point and 4 in the Roads.
Great Northern Diver – A summer-plumage bird in the Roads.
Lapwing – 5 Porthloo and a on Tresco..
Whimbrel – 1 Porthloo, 1 Peninnis and 2 on St. Agnes.
Curlew Sandpiper – 1 St. Agnes.
Jack Snipe – 11 in Lower Moors and 1 Tresco.
Mediterranean Gull – An adult 1 in the Roads.
Short-eared Owl – 1 near the Daymark on St. Martin’s.
Kingfisher – 1 Lower Moors.
Lesser Whitethroat 2 on the Garrison and 2 at Higher Moors.
Common Whitethroat – 1 St. Martin’s .
Ring Ouzel – 1Garrison, 1 Peninnis, 2 Tresco and 1 Bryher.
Spotted Flycatcher – 1 Newford Duck Pond, 1 ringed at Porth Hellick, 1 Garrison, 1 St. Agnes, 2 Tresco and 1 St. Martin’s.
Pied Flycatcher – 1 Newford Duck Pond and 2 on St. Martin’s.
Black Redstart – 5 on St. Mary’s, 1 on Tresco, 2 om Bryher, 4 on St. Agnes and 1 on St. Martin’s.
Common Redstart – 1 Porth Mellon and 1 Airfield.
Whinchat – 4 on St. Mary’s and 2 on Bryher.
Tree Pipit – 1 Longstone.
Siskin – 4 in the Carreg Dhu Gardens/Longstone