Saturday (31/10)

Lesser Yellowlegs – 1 still on the Abbey Pool, Tresco

Great White Egret – 1 on St. Martins

Cattle Egret – 9 Tresco, 2 on St. Martins and flocks of 8, 5 and perhaps another 4 on St. Mary’s, so 13-17, giving an islands total of 24 to 28, a record number for Scilly, the highest previously was 9.

Glossy Ibis – 1 in the pig field at Parting Carn also seen briefly at Salakee Farm

Short-toed Lark – 1 in Peninnis fields

Woodlark – 1 flew west over the school to Peninnis

Little  Bunting – 1 in a field just north of Old Grimsby, Tresco

Greylag Goose  – 1 still in the field opposite the lane to Carn Vean

White-fronted Goose – 1 still in the field opposite the lane to Carn Vean

Great Northern Diver – 4 on the inter-islands boat trip

Spoonbill – 1 Samson

Little Egret – 1 Old Town Bay, 4 Abbey Pool, Tresco, 1 St. Martin’s

Whimbrel – 1 Taylor’s Island Porthloo

Purple Sandpiper – 1 on the inter-islands boat trip

Woodcock  – 1 flushed in Lower Moors          

Mediterranean Gull – 3 Porth Cressa, 8 Pendrethen

Glaucous Gull – 1 Porthloo

Glaucous/Herring Gull hybrid – 1 Porthloo

Yellow-legged Gull – 1 Porthloo–

Hooded Crow – 1 in a field behind the cricket pitch on Tresco

Skylark – 10 in Peninnis fields

Yellow-browed Warbler –  5 on St. Mary’s 

Nightingale – 1 still showing very well at the west end of Little Porth

Black Redstart – St. Mary’s – 1 Holy Vale, 1 New Grimsby, Tresco

Redstart – 1 still on the edge of Salakee Wood

Brambling – 1 in a Chaffinch flock in afield above Pelistry Beach

Snow Bunting – 3 Daymark/Chapel Down, St. Martin’s

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