A selection from Thursday’s log call:
Dusky Warbler – 1 Higher Moors and 1 on Tresco
Olive-backed Pipit – Still 5 on St. Mary’s:- 2 Old Town, 2 Porthloo Farm, and 1 Normandy Farm. A sixth bird was at Borough Farm, Tresco..
Little Bunting – 2 Browarth, St, Agnes.
Woodlark – 2 Parting Carn.
Spoonbill – 3 on Green Island near Samson.
Wryneck – 1 still on Peninnis.
Black-necked Grebe – 2 in Town Bay and 2 south of Tresco.
Slavonian Grebe – 1 near Teän.
Firecrest – 1 on Tresco.
Yellow-browed Warbler – 5 on St. Mary’s, 5 on Tresco, 1 on Bryher and 1 St. Agnes.
Lapland Bunting – 2 Bryher.
Snow Bunting – 1 on Peninnis .
Yellow-legged Gull – An adult 0n Porth Hellick Beach.
Merlin – 1 Hugh Town, 1 Bryher and 1 Tresco.
Pale-bellied Brent Goose – 1 off Lower Town, St. Martin’s.
Wigeon – 39 Tresco.
Pintail – 2 on the Great Pool, Tresco.
Common Scoter – 6 in the Roads.
Red-breasted Merganser – 1 Tresco.
Grey Plover – 7 Teän.
Whimbrel – 1 St. Agnes.
Curlew Sandpiper – 1 still on the Abbey Pool, Tresco.
Jack Snipe – 1 caught and ringed at Porth Hellick and 1 Abbey Pool, Tresco.
Arctic Skua – 1 on a round the islands boat trip
Mediterranean Gull – 1 Tresco Channel
Kingfisher – 1 Bryher and 1 Old Town Bay.
Hooded Crow – 1 still on Bryher.
Common Whitethroat – 1 Rocky Hill
Ring Ouzel – 1 Tresco.
Black Redstart – 4 on St. Mary’s and 1 on St. Martin’s.
Common Redstart – 1 Tresco.
Whinchat – 1 Tresco and 1 Bryher.
Tree Pipit – 1 still on Normandy Farm.
Water Pipit – 1 St. Agnes.
Siskin – 1 Porth Hellick and 1 Tresco.
Reed Bunting – 3 on Tresco.