Eastern type Lesser Whitethroat, Standing Stones Field, Kris Webb, 26.010.18
A selection from Friday’s log call ( the last of the autumn):
Rustic Bunting – 1 still in a field at Longstone.
Dusky Warbler – Still 1 in Lower Moors.
Little Bunting – 2 Tresco.
Great White Egret – 1 on Abbey Pool, Tresco.
Cattle Egret – 1 Tresco.
Richard’s Pipit – 2 on the Airfield and 1 on Tresco.
Rose-coloured Starling – 1 Porthcressa and 1 St. Agnes.
Woodlark – 1 St. Martin’s.
Yellow-browed Warbler – 6 on St. Mary’s and 1 on St. Martin’s.
Black Redstart – 4 Porthcressa and 1 on St. Martin’s.
Sooty Shearwater 1 flew west past St. Martin’s.
Whooper Swan – 1seen on both pools on Tresco.
Pintail – 1 on the Great Pool, Tresco.
Pochard – A pair on the Great Pool.
Red-breasted Merganser – 1 flew between Tresco and St. Martin’s towards the Eastern Islands.
Little Egret – 17 Abbey Pool, Tresco and 5 Tresco Channel.
Golden Plover – 1 on the Airfield.
Wood Sandpiper – 1 on the Great Pool, Tresco.
Jack Snipe – 1 Porth Hellick Pool.
Mediterranean Gull – 2 St. Martin’s and 1 Porthcressa.
Great Skua – 2 past St. Martin’s.
Merlin – 1 or 2 on St. Mary’s and 1 St. Martin’s.
Skylark – 2 on the Airfield.
Lesser Whitethroat – An “eastern type” bird thought possibly to be of the subspecies Blythi.
Fieldfare – 50+ on St. Mary’s and 3 on Sty. Martin’s.
Redwing – 1 Porthcressa, 5 Tresco and 18 on St. Martin’s.
Brambling – 5 at Longstone and 1 on Tresco.
Lesser Redpoll – 1 Longstone and 1 Tresco.