Monday (15/03)

Common Tern – 1 flying east past Carn Near, Tresco was the first of the year

Cattle Egret – 4 in the cattle field behind High Lanes

GreylagGoose – 1 Tresco

Russian White-fronted Goose – 1 Tresco

Great Northern Diver – 1 Porth Cressa

Iceland Gull – 1 Porthloo, 2 Tresco

Firecrest – 2 Tresco

Tuesday (16/03)

Cattle Egret – 4 still in the cattle field at High Lanes

Hen Harrier – A ring-tail over Kittydown

Short-eared Owl – 1 on Samson

Iceland Gull – 2 Porthloo

Cetti’s Warbler – 1 Porth Hellick Loop and 1 by the small pool on Carn Friars Farm

Black Redstart – 1 Porth Hellick Down

Grey Wagtail – 1 Carn Friars

Wednesday (17/03)

Spoonbill – 1 Samson

Wheatear – 1 Deep Point

Black Redstart – 1 Porthloo

Thursday (18/03)

Sand Martin –The first of the year were 3 at Higher Moors/Porth Hellick and 1 at Lower Moors      

Cattle Egret – 2 Roosting at Porth Hellick flew off and landed near Longstone, 1 dropped in towards Porth Hellick mid-afternoon

Purple Sandpiper – 1 Peninnis

Merlin – 1 Porth Hellick Down

Firecrest – 1 Carreg Dhu Gardens, 1 at the school end of the Standing Stones Field

Black Redstart – 1 Porth Wreck

Friday (19/03)

Cattle Egret – 4 south of High Lanes and then on Sandy Lane

Great Northern Diver – 1 in Crow Sound

Iceland Gull – 2 Porthloo

Saturday (20/03)9

Cattle Egret – 4 in a field behind High Lanes

Snow Bunting – 1 Samson (photo)

Shoveler  – A pair on Porth Hellick Pool

Pintail  – 1 on Hell Bay, Bryher

Eider – A female off the Golf Course and a female off Innisidgen

Common Scoter – A female off Innisidgen

Black-throated Diver – 1 off the Golf Course

Great Northern Diver – 21 off the Golf course and another 12 of Innisidgen

Manx Shearwater  –  A flock of 45+ sat on the sea south of Porth Hellick Down

Whimbrel – 1 flew past the Daymark, St. Martin’s

Iceland Gull – 1 flew from Porthloo towards Porth Mellon

Sandwich  Tern – The first of the year was off Samson (photo)

Short-eared Owl – 1 Bryher

Raven – 1 flew past the Daymark, St. Martin’s

Skylark – 2 Samson

Sand Martin – 1 over Peninnis allotments

Swallow – 1 over Little Arthur Farm, St. Martin’s

Firecrest – 1 Tresco

Fieldfare – 2 Bryher

Redwing – 1 Little Arthur Farm, St. Martin’s

Wheatear – 1 Chapel Down, St. Martin’s, 2 Tresco, 1 Bryher (photo)

Sunday (21/03)

Cattle Egret – 2 in a field at High Lanes, 1 on Tresco and 3 flew from St. Mary’s towards Tresco early evening

Snow Bunting – 1 Pentle Bay, Tresco

GreylagGoose – 1 Tresco

Russian White-fronted Goose – 1 Tresco

Shoveler – A pair on Lower Moors Pool

Eider – 1 off Tresco

Grey Plover – 3 Lawrence’s Bay

Woodcock – 1 Tresco

Mediterranean Gull 

Yellow-legged Gull 

Glaucous Gull – A juvenile off Morning Point, also seen on the Golf Course

Iceland Gull – 1 Porthloo, 1 Tresco,

Great Spotted Woodpecker – 1 Tresco

Skylark – 1 on the airfield

Sand Martin – 28 on the pools on Tresco

Firecrest – 1 at the Garrison Campsite, 1  near the cricket pitch on St. Martin’s

Fieldfare – 4 on the airfield, 9 Salakee Farm fields

Redwing – 50 in Parting Carn chicken field, 23 St. Martin’s

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