SCILLONIAN III Sightings

St. Mary’s - 9 Greenshank and a dunlin at Porth Hellick Pool, Greenshank at Old Town, 8 Wheatear on the airfield & 4 on Peninnis, 3 Pied Wagtail at Porthcressa and a Pied Flycatcher at Tremelethen. Elsewhere, 2 Grey Phalaropes were on the sea between the Garrison and St. Agnes.

Tresco- 20+ Sanderling

Scillonian Crossing - Penzance to St. Mary’s - 2 Sabine’s Gulls, Leach’s Petrel, Balearic Shearwater, 80+ Manx Shearwaters, Arctic Skua and Great Skua.

St. Mary’s - *LESSER YELLOWLEGS* still at Porth Hellick Pool. Also Ruff, 6 Greenshank, 1 Green & 2 Common Sandpipers and an adult & juvenile Water Rail. 2 Mediterranean Gulls at Porthloo and Nightingale, 2 Pied & 4 Spotted Flycatchers on the Garrison. Whinchat & Wheatear on Peninnis

At sea - Cory’s and 2 Balearic Shearwaters from the Scillonian on the morning crossing from Penzance to Hugh Town

A very quiet evening pelagic produced just 30 European Storm-petrels, a Great Skua, 1 Sooty and 6 Manx Shearwaters.

There is now a facility on BirdTrack for observers to submit their sightings from the Scillonian crossings. There are two new sites for Cornwall which are “At sea: Penzance to St Mary’s” and “At sea: Penzance to Wolf Rock”, and two new sites for Scilly “ At sea: St Mary’s to Penzance” and “At sea: St Mary’s to Wolf Rock”

It would be most useful if records could be entered as “At sea: Penzance to Wolf Rock” or “At sea: St Mary’s to Wolf Rock”, this would enable records to be assigned to Cornwall or Scilly appropriately. If however you are unsure as to the location of a sighting, the record should still be of use and should be entered as “At sea: Penzance to St Mary’s” or “ At sea: St Mary’s to Penzance”

BirdTrack can be found at http://www.bto.org/birdtrack/

Penzance to St Mary’s - *WILSONS STORM-PETREL* seen this morning in Scillonian waters.

St. Mary’s to Penzance - Great, Balearic and Sooty Shearwater and 30 European Storm-petrels.