Thursday (24/10)

Dusky Warbler – 1 Porthloo boat shed, St Mary’s, 1 in the Cricket Pitch Pool area on St. Martin’s, 1 on Barnaby Lane, St. Agnes

Glossy Ibis – 1 on Peninnis in a field on King Edward’s Road, Peninnis then settling in fields between the airport & Peninnis and then settling in fields on Salakee Farm

Pallas’s Warbler – 1 at Cove Vean, St. Agnes

Sooty Shearwater – 130 on a daytime pelagic trip 7 miles west of Bishop Rock

Great Shearwater – 140 on a daytime pelagic trip 7 miles west of Bishop Rock

Little  Bunting – 1 in the field next to Bay View Terrace opposite the Porth Mellon Industrial Estate, 1 on the road to the airport hangars

Greylag Goose  – 1 in the mobile flock of 7 “grey geese” moving around St. Mary’s

Pink-footed Goose – 4 in the mobile flock of 7 “grey geese” moving around St. Mary’s

White-fronted Goose – 2 in the mobile flock of 7 “grey geese” moving around St. Mary’s

Mandarin – the drake of unknown origin flew from Porthloo to Lower Moors

Shoveler – 2 Great Pool, Tresco

Wigeon – 4 Great Pool, Tresco

Pintail – 1 Abbey Pool, Tresco

Pochard – 3 Great Pool, Tresco

Tufted Duck – 1 Great Pool, Tresco

European Storm-petrel – 1 on a daytime pelagic trip 7 miles west of Bishop Rock

Spoonbill – 3 Green Island

Little Egret – 1Old Town Bay, 1 Carn Near, Tresco

Bar-tailed Godwit – 2 Green Island, 1 Taylor’s Island, Porthloo

Purple Sandpiper – 2 Western Rocks

Woodcock  – 1 Shooter’s Pool                 

Jack Snipe – 1 Porth Hellick, 1 St. Agnes

Common Sandpiper – 1 Old Town Bay

Green Sandpiper – 1 Teän

Caspian Gull – 1 at the Campsite on St. Agnes 

Great Skua – 11 on a daytime pelagic trip 7 miles west of Bishop Rock

Arctic Skua – 2 adults on a daytime pelagic trip 7 miles west of Bishop Rock

Puffin – 8 on a daytime pelagic trip 7 miles west of Bishop Rock

Short-eared Owl – 1 Peninnis Allotments, 1 on Wingletang, St. Agnes

Kingfisher – 1 Porth Hellick Bay

Great Spotted Woodpecker – 1 Pool Road, Tresco

Merlin – 1 Peninnis

Hobby – 1 over Lower Moors

Red-backed Shrike – 1 still behind Longstone Lodge

Hooded Crow – 1 Dolphin House, Tresco

Skylark – 20 in fields on King Edward’s Road, Peninnis

Short-toed Lark – 1 with a Skylark flock in fields on King Edward’s Road, Peninnis

Cetti’s Warbler – 1 near the Stephen Sussex Hide at Porth Hellick

Siberian Chiffchaff – 1 at Porth Hellick

Yellow-browed Warbler –  14 St. Mary’s ,1 Tresco, 2 St. Agnes and 1 on St. Martin’s  

Lesser Whitethroat – 1 on Carn Friars Farm was considered to be a “probable” Siberian 

Firecrest –  2 on the coastal path on the east side of Peninnis, 1 Carreg Dhu, 1 Lower Broome 1 in the Parsonage Garden, St. Agnes, 1 Lawrence’s Bay, St. Martin’s, 1 behind the Seven Stones Pub, St. Martin’s

Ring Ouzel – 1 Dolphin Cottage, Tresco, 2 behind the Cricket Pitch on Bryher

Mistle Thrush – 3 at Borough Farm, Tresco

Spotted Flycatcher – 1 in the Parsonage Garden, St. Agnes

Nightingale – 1 Still at Little Porth

Pied Flycatcher –1 in the Parsonage Garden, St. Agnes, 1 behind the Seven Stones Pub, St. Martin’s

Black Redstart – 20 St. Mary’s, 20 St. Agnes, 3 Bryher and 1 Tresco

Redstart – 1 on Peninnis in the field below the Health Centre, 1 in Salakee Wood

Whinchat –  1 on the hedge between Porth Hellick House and Higher Moors,1 by St. Martin’s Fire Station

Yellow Wagtail – 1 Bryher

Grey Wagtail – 1 New Grimsby, Tresco

Brambling – 1 at the bottom of Sunnyside Farm, 2 St. Agnes

Lesser Redpoll – 1 Giant’s Castle

Crossbill –  6 Longstone, 1 Carn Friars, 1 Bryher

Siskin – 8 St. Agnes, 1 Bryher

Reed Bunting – 1 in the field next to Bay View Terrace opposite the Porth Mellon Industrial Estate

Snow Bunting – 1 still below Peninnis lighthouse

And in the water 20+ Bluefin Tuna, 8 Common Dolphin, Minke Whale and Portuguese man o’ war

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