A selection from Sunday’s log:
Siberian Oystercatcher – The bird thought by some to be this subspecies was still on Porthloo Beach.
Dusky Warbler – 2 in Lower Moors, 1 near Shooters’ Pool and 1 by the carpark at Trench Lane moving to bushes by the pumping station
Little Bunting – 1 on Port Hellick Down.
Bullfinch – 1 flew from Peninnis towards Old Town, this is a very scarce bird on Scilly.
Hawfinch – 4 at the Riding Stables, 1 Pelistry, 1 Content and 1 Tresco.
Yellow-browed Warbler – 4 on St. Mary’s, 2 on St. Agnes and 1 on Gugh.
Siberian Chiffchaff 1 still on Higher Moors.
Water Pipit – 1 again on Porth Hellick Beach.
Firecrest – 20 on St. Mary’s, 7 on St. Agnes and 2 on Tresco.
Sabine’s Gull – 1 seen from the Scillonian III on the morning crossing from Penzance to St. Mary’s
Snow Bunting – 2 Deep Point.
Pale-bellied Brent Goose – 2 Porthloo.
Wigeon – 1 Great Pool, Tresco.
Common Scoter – 6 off Tresco.
Great Northern Diver – 1 Porth Hellick Bay, 1 Porthcressa, 3 Tresco and 1 St. Martin’s.
Little Grebe – 2 on the Great Pool, Tresco.
Golden Plover – 5 Old Town.
Whimbrel – 2 Pendrethen, 1 Porthcressa and 1 Toll’s Island.
Jack Snipe – 1 Toll’s Island.
Great Skua – 1 past Peninnis.
Mediterranean Gull – 1 Porthcressa and 3 Tresco Channel.
Merlin – 1 Lower Moors, 1 Porthloo and 1 Tresco.
Lesser Whitethroat – 1 Higher Moors.
Ring Ouzel – 1 on St. Agnes.
Spotted Flycatcher – 1 at Salakee.
Pied Flycatcher – 1 Little Porth.
Black Redstart – 8 on St. Mary’s.
Common Redstart– 1 on St. Agnes.
Whinchat – 1 Longstone and 1 Content.
Brambling – 1 St. Agnes.
Siskin – 12 Rocky Hill, 11 Longstone, 3 Holy Vale, 30+ on Tresco and 2 on St. Agnes.