Monday 5th October 2009 IoS Bird Reports

Tresco - **LONG-BILLED DOWITCHER** still on Abbey Pool with PECTORAL SANDPIPER. Black-necked Grebe and Little Stint still. COMMON ROSEFINCH in a Quinoa field along Pool Road and juvenile Arctic Tern at Kettle Point.

St. Mary’s – Dotterel still on the airfield early morning, Grasshopper Warbler at Porth Hellick, Mediterranean Gull on Taylor’s Island, Porthloo, Common Scoter off Porth Mellon and a Whimbrel at Bar Point.

At sea – 1 Great Skua, 2 Arctic Skua & 2 Basking Sharks, 20+ Bottle-nosed Dolphin on the Penzance to St. Mary’s Scillonian crossing and 2 Great Skuas, a Sooty Shearwater, a Basking Shark, 150+ Common Dolphins and a Minke Whale from the daytime pelagic.