Thursday 18th October 2012 IoS Bird Reports

Possible Hume’s Leaf Warbler – 1 still in the dump clump

Ring-necked Duck – The first-winter male and 2 females were still on Porth Hellick Pool.

Serin – 1 on Bryher.

Richard’s Pipit – 1 on St. Agnes.

Coal Tit – 7 on Bryher, 3 on St. Agnes, 2 on Tresco and 1 in Lower Moors.

Yellow-browed Warbler – 4 on St. Mary’s, 2 on St. Agnes, 2 on Tresco and 2 on Bryher.

Barred Warbler – 1 still in a field at Browarth, St. Agnes

Red-breasted Flycatcher – 1 between the dump clump and the school.

Dotterel – 1 heard calling in the evening over the Garrison.

Whooper Swan – 6 on still the Great Pool, Tresco.

Pale-bellied Brent Goose – 1 still in Porthcressa Bay and then again flew to Pentle Bay, Tresco.

Red-breasted Merganser – 1 off Watermill.

Red-throated Diver – 1 off Innisidgen.

Great Northern diver – 1 flew past Old Town Bay towards Peninnis.

Sooty Shearwater – 1 on the Scillonian crossing from Penzance to St. Mary’s.

Balearic Shearwater – 1 past Porth Hellick Down, 1 past Peninnis and 1 near Gull Rock.

Little Egret – 21 in Tresco Channel.

Spoonbill – now 2 on Green Island near Samson.

Marsh Harrier – A male over Abbey Pool, Tresco.

Merlin – 1 on St. Mary’s, 1 on Bryher and 1 on Tresco.

Golden Plover – 15 on the airfield, 10 over Telegraph and 5 on Bryher.

Grey Plover – 2 in Tresco Channel.

Knot – 1 on Bryher.

Jack Snipe – 1 in Lower Moors and 1 Rockyhill.

Grey Phalarope – 1 Bryher.

Great Skua – 1 Bryher and 1 Deep Point.

Mediterranean Gull – A second -winter bird was at Porthloo and an unaged bird was on Tresco.

Turtle Dove – 2 were at Normandy.

Great Spotted Woodpecker – 1 Holy Vale, 1 Bryher and 1 Tresco.

Whinchat – 1 Normandy and 1 on St. Martin’s..

Ring Ouzel – 1 Deep Point.

Fieldfare – 2 on the golf course, 2 at Normandy, 1 at Green Farm and 1 on Tresco.

Common Whitethroat – 1 on Bryher.

Firecrest – 1 Holy Vale, 1 Newford duck pond, 1 Lower Moors, 1 Tresco, 1 Bryher and 1 St. Agnes.

Spotted flycatcher – 1 on the Garrison, 1 in the Dump Clump and 1 on St. Agnes.

Pied flycatcher – 2 on St. Agnes, 1 Newford duck pond and 1 Tresco.

Rook – 1 Tresco.

Brambling – 1 on the Garrison, 1 Porth Hellick, 1 on Tresco and 1 on Bryher.

Siskin – 17 on St. Mary’s, 12 on Bryher and 10 on Tresco.

Lesser Redpoll – 1 in the Dump Clump, 1 on Bryher and 3 on St. Martin’s.

Lapland Bunting – 1 by the wood pile on Tresco.

Snow Bunting – 1 Porth Mellon and 1 on St. Agnes.