Sunday (11/10)
Swainson’s Thrush – The bird found yesterday was still in Popplestone Fields, Bryher
Red-eyed Vireo – 1 still in the pines above Middle Town, St. Martin’s
Radde’s Warbler – 1 by Vine Café, Bryher and by the Abbey Garden Café, Tresco
Little Bunting – 1 by the southeast corner of the Abbey Pool, Tresco
Pectoral Sandpiper – 1 by the airfield turning circle then moving to Porth Hellick Pool, 1 Abbey Pool, Tresco
Great White Egret – 1 Great Pool, Tresco
American Golden Plover – 1 still Castle Down, Tresco
Dusky Warbler – 1 on the west side of Porth Cressa beach then flew towards the Garrison Wall
Olive-backed Pipit – 1 calling over the Telegraph Road Lower Moors entrance, also flew over the Standing Stones Field
Citrine Wagtail – A “possible” over Normandy calling.
Brent Goose – 7 between Bryher & Samson
Greylag Goose – 1 Four Lanes
Pink-footed Goose – 7 Four Lanes, 4 in Cliffs Fields, Tresco
Wigeon – 1 Porth Hellick, Great Pool, Tresco
Shoveler – 2 Great Pool, Tresco
Pochard – 2 Great Pool, Tresco
Common Scoter – 1 in The Roads
Long-tailed Duck – A drake flew east past Morning Point
Spoonbill – 3 on Samson
Woodcock – 1 Content
Jack Snipe – 2 Lower Moors
Mediterranean Gull – 1 Porth Cressa, 1 Hugh Town Quay
Iceland Gull – 1 on rocks between St. Mary’s & Tresco
Wryneck – 1 north west of Wingletang, St. Agnes
Great Spotted Woodpecker – 1 Holy Vale, 1 Pool Road, Tresco
Hobby – 1 south over New Inn, Tresco
Red-backed Shrike – 1 still behind Longstone Lodge
Hooded Crow – 1 on the airfield, it or another in fields near Dolphin House, Tresco
Raven – 1 over Vine Café, Bryher
Skylark – 1 Porth Hellick
Cetti’s Warbler – 1 Lower Moors, 1 Porth Hellick
Yellow-browed Warbler – A big increase 50+ on St. Mary’s, 15 on St. Agnes, 4 on Gugh 7+ on Tresco,5+ on Bryher and strangely only 1 on St. Martin’s (the most easterly of the inhabited islands). Giving a total of 80+ across the islands
Lesser Whitethroat – The putative “Blythi” still present near Newman Pottery on the Garrison and another “eastern type” at Porth Hellick, it or another at Salakee
Redwing – Seems to have been a small fall overnight Saturday/Sunday
Spotted Flycatcher – 1 Carreg Dhu
Nightingale – 1 still at the dump
Pied Flycatcher – 1 St. Agnes
Redstart – 1 on the Garrison, 1 near Peninnis Lighthouse
Whinchat – 1 Higher Moors Pumping Station, 1 Carn Friars, 2 in the horse field to the west of Holy Vale
Tree Pipit –1 flew high over the Dump
Crossbill – 3 over Higher Moors Pumping Station, 3 over Porthloo, 3 Porth Hellick, 4 Porth Hellick Down, 3 over Carreg Dhu
Siskin – 50+ on St. Mary’s
Reed Bunting – 1 flew over Standing Stones Field, it or another in Lower Moors, 3 in the bracken by Camel Rock, Porth Hellick
Lapland Bunting – 2 St. Agnes, 1 over Longstone, 1 Castle Down, Tresco
Snow Bunting – 1 Peninnis
