A selection from Wednesday’s log call:
Tawny Pipit – 1 Bryher.
Pectoral Sandpiper – 1 on the Great Pool, Tresco.
Rose-coloured Starling – A juvenile on St. Martin’s.
Melodious Warbler – 1 Lower Moors.
Common Rosefinch – 1 St. Agnes.
Whooper Swan – the first of the autumn made a brief stop on Porth Hellick Pool before settling on the Great Pool, Tresco.
Spoonbill – 1 on Green Island, Samson.
Red-breasted Flycatcher – 1 on Pool Road, Tresco.
Yellow-browed Warbler – 1 in the Parsonage, St. Agnes and 1 by the Great Pool, Tresco.
Firecrest – 2 Higher Moors and 1 Longstone.
Lapland Bunting – 1 Golf Course.
Pintail – 2 females on Abbey Pool, Tresco.
Pochard – A female on Abbey Pool, Tresco.
Common Scoter – A female on the sea of Telegraph.
Little Egret – 8 Tresco Channel.
Grey Plover – 1 Porthloo.
Whimbrel – 1 Bryher.
Bar-tailed Godwit – 2 Porthcressa and 1 St. Agnes.
Mediterranean Gull – 4 Porthcressa, 1 St. Martin’s and 2 on Abbey Pool, Tresco.
Great Skua – 3 from the Scillonian 111 on the crossing from Penzance to St. Mary’s.
Kingfisher – 1 Porth Hellick and 1 Old Town.
Merlin – 1 Porth Hellick and 1 St. Martin’s.
Skylark – 1 Bryher and 2 Tresco.
Garden Warbler – 3 St. Agnes.
Sotted Flycatcher – 12 on St. Mary’s, 6 on Bryher,1 on Tresco, 1 on St. Martin’s and 1 on St.Agnes.
Pied Flycatcher – 1 on St. Martin’s.
Whinchat – 4 Standing Stones Field, Lower Moors, 1 Salakee and 1 St. Martin’s.
Yellow Wagtail – 1 Kittydown.
White Wagtail – 2 Longstone, 1 Porth Hellick, 1 St. Martin’s and 1 Bryher.
Tree Pipit – 1 Content.
Siskin – 1 Tresco.