Last week’s presumed Western Orphean Warbler has been re-identified from photographs as an Eastern Orphean Warbler, the first record for Britain!
A selection from Monday’s log:
Penduline Tit – 1was heard in Lower Moors.
Dusky Warbler – 2, possibly 3, in Lower Moors, 2 near Shooters’ Pool and 1 was seen by the pumping station at the Trench Lane end early evening
Little Bunting – 1 still on St. Agnes.
Hawfinch – 1 Telegraph and 1 Green Lane.
Yellow-browed Warbler – 6 on St. Mary’s and 1 on Bryher.
Water Pipit – 1 again on Porth Hellick Beach.
Firecrest – 14 on St. Mary’s and 4 on St. Agnes.
Balearic Shearwater – 1 seen from the Scillonian III on the morning crossing from Penzance to St. Mary’s.
European Storm-petrel – 2 seen from the Scillonian III on the morning crossing from Penzance to St. Mary’s.
Leach’s Storm-petrel – 4 seen from the Scillonian III on the morning crossing from Penzance to St. Mary’s.
Snow Bunting – 2 Deep Point.
Whooper Swan – 4 on Bryher.
Pink-footed Goose – 6 on Tresco.
Pale-bellied Brent Goose – 2 Porthloo.
Whimbrel – 2 Porth Hellick, 1 Porthloo and 1 Giant’s Castle.
Bar-tailed Godwit – 3 on Bryher.
Great Skua – 2 seen from the Scillonian III on the morning crossing from Penzance to St. Mary’s.
Mediterranean Gull – 1 Porthcressa, 2 Porthloo and 2 Morning Point.
Yellow-legged Gull – 1 Porthloo and 1 morning point.
Merlin – 1 Porthloo and 1 Porth Hellick Down.
Hooded Crow – 1 Bryher.
Lesser Whitethroat – 1 Higher Moors.
Common Whitethroat – 1 Higher Moors.
Spotted Flycatcher – 1 at Salakee.
Black Redstart – 13 on St. Mary’s and 4 on St. Agnes.
Yellow Wagtail – 1 St. Agnes.
Siskin – 80+ on St. Mary’s.
Reed Bunting – 1 Porth Hellick.