Monday (15/02)

Greylag Goose – 1 flew over Pelistry Riding Stabled heading towards Tresco

Russian White-fronted Goose – 1 flew over Pelistry Riding Stabled heading towards Tresco

Spoonbill – 1 Samson

Bar-tailed Godwit – 10 Porthloo

Mediterranean Gull – 1 Porthloo

Glaucous Gull – 1 again on the bird table in the garden behind Star Castle

Iceland Gull – 2 Porthloo

Great Spotted Woodpecker – 1 Lower Moors

Jackdaw – 1 flew over Mount Todden towards Hugh Town

Skylark – 1 Porth Hellick

Cetti’s Warbler – 1 Porth Hellick 

Redwing – 60 Telegraph

Tuesday (16/02)

Cattle Egret – 1 in a field west of the road entrance to Old Town Church

Eider – An immature male on rocks in Pendrathen Bay

Common Scoter – 3 off Innisidgen

Slavonian Grebe – 2 off Innisidgen

Spoonbill – 1 Samson, 1 off Skirt Island Point, Tresco

Bar-tailed Godwit – 11 Porthloo, 8 Bar Point

Glaucous Gull – 1 seen form Bar Point flew west across Crow sound and landed at Pentle Bay, Tresco

Iceland Gull – 1 Porthloo

Wednesday (17/02)

Humpback Whale – 1 again of Samson

Spoonbill – 1 Samson 

Bar-tailed Godwit –  22 Porthloo

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

Iceland Gull – 2 Porthloo

Merlin – 1 Porthloo

Jackdaw – 1 flew Northeast over Star Castle

Redwing  – 20 in trees at Newford Duck Pond

Thursday (18/02)

Pale-bellied Brent Goose – 1 on Simpson’s Field Tresco

Greylag Goose – 1 flew over Bar Point and then over Borough Farm, Tresco

Russian White-fronted Goose – 1 flew over Bar Point and then over Borough Farm, Tresco

Eider – An immature drake of Bar Point and a female Skirt Island, Tresco

Shoveler – A drake on the Abbey Pool, Tresco

Wigeon –  2 on the Great Pool, Tresco

Bar-tailed Godwit – 11 Porthloo

Yellow-legged Gull – 2 flew west past the  Steval, on the Garrison

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

Iceland Gull – 2 Porthloo

Great Spotted Woodpecker – 1 Abbey Crossroads, Tresco

Jackdaw – 1 Vane Hill, Tresco

Redwing – 40 in the Watermill/Newford Duck Pond Area

Friday (19/02)

Humpback Whale – 1 off Deep Point

Bar-tailed Godwit – 28 Porthloo, 2 Pendrathen 

Mediterranean Gull – A second-winter bird at Pendrathen

Glaucous Gull – 1 commuting between Porth Cressa the bird table in the garden behind Star Castle

Iceland Gull – 1 commuting between Porth Cressa the bird table in the garden behind Star Castle. 1 Porthloo

Saturday (20/02)

Hirundine species briefly by the Duchy Office on the Garrison

Greylag Goose – 1 on Porth Hellick Pool

Russian White-Fronted Goose – 1 on Porth Hellick Pool

Great Northern Diver – 2 Porth Cressa

Spoonbill – 3 Samson

Grey Plover – 9 Middletown Beach, St. Martin’s 

Bar-tailed Godwit – 22 Porthloo

Little Gull – a first-winter bird flew past Giant’s Castle

Yellow-legged Gull – 1 Morning Point

Glaucous Gull –1 Porth Cressa also on the bird table in the garden behind Star Castle

Iceland Gull – 3 Porthloo, 2 of these or 2 others at Porthcressa, 1 Middletown, St. Martin’s 

Great Skua – 1 flew past Giant’s Castle

Firecrest – 2 in the garden behind Star Castle

Sunday (21/02)

Common Scoter – 3 between St. Martin’s and the Eastern Isles, 1 off Skirt Island, Tresc0

Red-throated Diver – 1 off Bar Point

Great Northern Diver – 1 off Bar Point, 12 east of Skirt Island, Tresco

Slavonian Grebe – 1 off Innisidgen

Spoonbill – 3 Samson

Whimbrel – 1 Samson

Bar-tailed Godwit – 18 Porthloo, 20 on the Wras Rock, Pendrathen

Purple Sandpiper – 11 Samson

Little Gull – a first-winter on Abbey Pool, Tresco

Glaucous Gull – 1 again on the bird table in the garden behind Stat Castle

Iceland Gull – 2 Porthloo, another flew over Samson Flats

Great Spotted Woodpecker – 1 in the Dump Clump and 1 near Abbey Pool, Tresco

Cetti’s Warbler – 1 Porth Hellick Loop

Firecrest – 1 near Abbey Pool, Tresco

Redwing – 48 Newford

Black Redstart – 1 Porthloo

Grey Wagtail – 1 Porth Hellick Loop

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