Monday (11/01)

Cattle Egret – 2 Longstone

Whimbrel – 1 Pendrathen

Bar-tailed Godwit – 12 Pendrathen

Woodcock – 1 by the Telegraph Radio mast

Mediterranean Gull – 1 Morning Point on the Garrison

Glaucous Gull – 1 in a garden behind Star Castle

Iceland Gull – 2 Porthloo

Merlin – 1 over Carn Thomas, Hugh Town

Tuesday (12/01)

Only 3 reports

Glaucous Gull – 1 again in a garden behind the Star Castle on the Garrison

Iceland Gull – 1 Porthloo

Firecrest – 1 in a garden behind the Star Castle on the Garrison

Wednesday (13/01)

Humpback Whale – 1 close in of the west side of the Garrison, it or another also seen between

Common Scoter – 1 seen off shore on a walk from Pendrathen to Deep Point

Red-throated Diver – 1 seen off shore on a walk from Pendrathen to Deep Point

Great Northern Diver – 14 seen off shore on a walk from Pendrathen to Deep Point

Slavonian Grebe – 2 seen off shore on a walk from Pendrathen to Deep Point

Little Egret – 3 Porthloo

Kingfisher – 1 seen on a walk from Pendrathen to Deep Point

Glaucous Gull – Again in a garden behind the Star Castle on the Garrison before flying towards Porth Cressa

Iceland Gull – 2 Porthloo

Thursday (14/01)

Cattle Egret – 3 Longstone

Yellow-legged Gull – A second-winter Morning Point

Glaucous Gull – 1 again in the usual garden behind Star Castle.

Iceland Gull – 1 still in the usual garden behind Star Castle, 2 Porthloo

Redwing – 16 Longstone

Brambling – 1 Holy Vale

Friday (15/01)

Humpback Whale – 1 south of Samson

Cattle Egret – 3 Longstone

Eider – 1 off Skirt Island, Tresco

Common Scoter – 3 off Innisidgen, 1 off Great Bay, St. Martin’s, 1 off South Beach, Tresco

Black-throated Diver – 1 Great Bay, St. Martin’s (photo)

Great Northern Diver – 16 from Innisidgen

Slavonian Grebe – 3 near the Eastern Isles seen from Innisidgen

Bar-tailed Godwit – 11 Middle Town Beach, St. Martin’s

Purple Sandpiper – 2 Samson, 6 Little Bay, St. Martin’s

Iceland Gull – 1 Porthloo, an apparently new juvenile bird on Samson

Buzzard – 1 Pool Road, Tresco

Great Spotted Woodpecker – 1 Pool Road, Tresco

Merlin – 1 Wingletang, St. Agnes, 1 St. Martin’s

Raven – 2 Chapel Down, St. Martin’s

Cetti’s Warbler – 1 Pool Road, Tresco, the first record away from St. Mary’s

Redpoll – A “Mealy” in a weedy field at Sunnyside

Saturday (16/01)

Cattle Egret – 3 Longstone (photo)

Spoonbill – 1 Samson

Common Sandpiper – 1 Porth Cressa Beach

Glaucous Gull – 1 on the Garrison

Iceland Gull – The usual individual in a garden behind Star Castle, later at Porthloo where it was joined by another

Firecrest – 1 in a garden behind Star Castle

Sunday (17/01)

Fin Whale – 1 off Peninnis

Cattle Egret – 4 Longstone,  1 Trewince

Russian White-fronted Goose – 1 still in the fields by the church on Tresco

Siberian Pink-footed Goose – 1 still in the fields by the church on Tresco

Eider – 1 Pendrathen, 1 Pentle Bay, Tresco

Common Scoter – 3 seen in a trip around island waters

Water Rail – 12 Lower Moors

Great Northern Diver – 25 around the islands

Little Egret – 2 Lawrence Bay, St. Martin’s

Bar-tailed Godwit – 12 Lawrence Bay, St. Martin’s

Purple Sandpiper – 4 Samson, 6 Great Bay, St. Martin’s

Woodcock – 3 Lower Moors

Yellow-legged Gull – An adult Samson

Glaucous Gull – 1 again in a garden behind Star Castle, seen later at Steval before flying towards Hugh Town

Iceland Gull – 2 Town Beach, 1 Porthloo

Short-eared Owl – 1 Lower Moors

Cetti’s Warbler – 1 Lower Moors

Siberian Chiffchaff– 1 Lower Moors

(c) Robin Mawer
(c) Gary Brian Prescott
(c) Jaclyn Pearson
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