Tuesday (29/09)

Brent Goose – 13 Tresco Channel, 1 just offshore from Bathing House Beach, Tresco (photo)

Greylag Goose  – 2 at Four Lanes

Pink-footed Goose  – 4 at Four Lanes, 4 in a field west of Longstone, 4 Tresco

Shelduck – 2 Green Island

Red-throated Diver – 1 Tresco Channel (photo)

Sooty Shearwater – 3 on the Pelagic trip 3 miles southwest of Bishop Rock

Balearic Shearwater – 1 on the Pelagic trip 3 miles southwest of Bishop Rock

Spoonbill – 1 on Green Island (photo)

Great White Egret – 1 flew over Middle Town, St. Martin’s

Sparrowhawk – 1 Peninnis

Spotted Crake – 1 on the Great Pool, Tresco

Dotterel – 2 Castle Down, Tresco

Sanderling – 60+ Tresco

Dunlin – 3 Tresco

Purple Sandpiper – 2 on the Western Isles 

Jack Snipe – 1 Lower Moors

Yellow-legged Gull – 1 flew east past Porth Hellick Down, 1 on the Pelagic trip 3 miles southwest of Bishop Rock

Great Skua – 1 on the Pelagic trip 3 miles southwest of Bishop Rock

Pomarine Skua – 1 on the Pelagic trip 3 miles southwest of Bishop Rock

Kingfisher – 1 on rocks below Peninnis Lighthouse 

Wryneck – 1 on the west side of Peninnis, 1 Tolman Point, 1 Tresco

Great Spotted Woodpecker – 1 Tresco

Merlin – 1 over the Plains, St. Martin’s

Red-backed Shrike – 1 Longstone Lodge 

Raven – 1 Tresco, 1 St. Martin’s

Skylark – 2 on the airfield, 1 St. Agnes

Yellow-browed Warbler – 1 in Old Town Churchyard, 2 Shooters’ Pool, 1 near the east end of the Great Pool, Tresco, 1 Abbey Pool Crossroads, Tresco 1 Barnaby Lane, St. Agne

Whitethroat – 2 Dead Pine Walk, Garrison

Firecrest – 1 near Abbey Pool, Tresco

Ring Ouzel – 1 Gugh, 1 St. Martin’s

Spotted Flycatcher – 1 Lower Moors

Pied Flycatcher –1 in the Parsonage, St. Agnes 

Redstart – 1 on King Edward’s Lane, Peninnis

Whinchat – 2  Garrison Football Pitch, 2 Porth Hellick, 1 Tresco

Grey Wagtail – 1 High Lanes, 1 Garrison

Crossbill – 4 in the Longstone area, 16 over Higher Moors towards Parting Carn

Siskin –  6 Dead Pine Walk, Garrison

Lapland Bunting – 1 near Peninnis Lighthouse, 1 Chapel Down, St. Martin’s, 2 Tresco, 1 St. Agnes

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