Monday (05/10)

Pink-footed Goose – 6 still Four Lanes, 4 still south of New Grimsby, Tresco

Shoveler – 2 on the Great Pool, Tresco

Wigeon – 10 on Porth Hellick Pool

Great Northern Diver – 3 (2 in summer plumage) between Pelistry & Watermill

Little Egret – 1 Porth Cressa

Sparrowhawk – 1 over Newford Duck Pond, 1 St. Martin’s, 1 Tresco

Spotted Crake – 1 still on the Great Pool, Tresco, showing from the David Hunt Hide

Golden Plover – 3 on Castle Down, Tresco

American Golden Plover – 1 sound recorded flyover yesterday (04/10/20) thought to be a possible Pacific Golden Plover has been identified from the sonogram as American. Seen today on Castle Down, Tresco

Grey Plover – 1 over Longstone, 1 flew inland over Porth Hellick, 3 St. Martin’s 

Bar-tailed Godwit – 1 still on Porthloo Beach, 2 Porth Coose, St. Agnes

Whimbrel – 7 Toll’s Island, Pelistry, 1 St. Martin’s

Dunlin – 1 Bryher 

Jack Snipe – 1 on Porth Hellick Pool

Grey Phalarope – 3 past Horse Point, St. Agnes

Common Sandpiper – 1 below the Mermaid carpark, 1 Little Porth

Mediterranean Gull – Passage of adult birds between St. Agnes on the Garrison

Kingfisher – 1 on Lower Moors, Pool and on rocks in Old Town Bay, 1 Little Porth

Wryneck – 1 Deep Point Quarry, 1 Wingletang, St. Agnes

Great Spotted Woodpecker – 1 reported from various locations around St. Mary’s and 1 on Pool Road, Tresco

Merlin – 1 Giant’s Castle, 1 over Peninnis, 1 over Watermill, 1 over the Great Pool, Tresco, 1 Bryher, 1 Tresco

Red-backed Shrike – 1 still behind Longstone Lodge

Hooded Crow – 1 near the Great Pool, Tresco 

Cetti’s Warbler – 2 Porth Hellick, 1 Lower Moors

Willow Warbler – A Northern type on Content Lane

Yellow-browed Warbler – 1 Carn Gwaval, 1 Holy Vale, 1 Watermill, 1 Porth Hellick, 1 Sunnyside Trail, 1 Lower Broome, the Garrison, 1 Newford Duck Pond, 1 Jac-a-ba, 1 Higher Moors Pumping Station, 1 Content Lane, 1 Seven Stones & 1 still behind the Cricket Pitch, both St. Martin’s , 1 in the Parsonage Garden, St. Agnes

Firecrest – 1 in the Old Observatory Garden, St. Agnes

Ring Ouzel – 1 in a field below the airport

Redwing – 1 in the field opposite Pelistry Riding Stables

Spotted Flycatcher – 1 Holy Vale, 1 in the Parsonage Garden, St. Agnes, 2 Popplestone Fields, Bryher

Nightingale – 1 on a wall at Little Porth

Pied Flycatcher – 3 Holy Vale, 1 Trenoweth,1 in the Parsonage Garden, St. Agnes, 1 near the Abbey Crossroads, Tresco

Redstart – 1 at Normandy

Whinchat – 1 Telegraph, 1 Carn Friars, 3 between Porth Hellick House and the Higher Moors entrance, 1 Porth Hellick Beach, 1 Watermill

Brambling – 1 flew over King Edward’s Road, Peninnis

Common Rosefinch – 1 heard at Carn Friars

Lesser Redpoll – 2 over Longstone Lodge, 1 over Lower Town, St. Martin’s

Crossbill – 1 Longstone, 6 over Higher Moors, 12 over Jac-a-ba/Innisidgen, 10 in the pines near the Stephen Sussex Hide, Porth Hellick, 9 west over Normandy

Siskin – 1 Watermill, 1 Deep Point, 3 Kittydown, 2 in the Dump Clump

Lapland Bunting – 1 near Peninnis lighthouse, 1 Tresco Heliport (photo), 1 Castle Down, Tresco

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