Wednesday (14/04)
Citrine Wagtail – A male at Stinky Porth and then the big Pool Bryher
Bee-eater – 1 at Porth Hellick (photo)
Great White Egret – 1 still on Bryher (photo)
Hoopoe – 1 flew over Higher Moors pumping station towards Carn Friars
Blue-headed Wagtail – 1 Porth Hellick
Black-throated Diver – A winter-plumage bird of Tolls Hill
Great Northern Diver – 2 Porth Cressa Bay
Marsh Harrier – The female was still at Porth Hellick hunting ducklings also seen at Lower Moors (photo). It roosted at Porth Hellick
Harrier sp – A male Hen/Harrier flew in off the sea at Normandy Down and headed towards Pelistry but was too far away for specific identification
Whimbrel – 1 Old Town Beach
Bar-tailed Godwit – 1 Porth Hellick Pool, 2 Samson, 2 Tresco Channel
Green Sandpiper – 1 Porth Hellick
Iceland Gull – 1 in the garden behind Star Castle, 1 Porthloo, 1 St. Martin’s
Rook – 1 at Borough Farm, St. Mary’s
Hooded Crow – 1 on St, Agnes
Cetti’s Warbler – 2 in the Standing Stones Field, Lower Moors, 1 Porth Hellick
Whitethroat –1 at Peninnis Allotments, 2 Bryher, 2 Samson
Ring Ouzel – A male on Normandy Down, a female on the Golf Course, 1 Pungies Lane, 1 Longstone, 1 Airfield, 2 Borough Farm, Tresco, a female on Bryher
Redwing – 1 on Bryher
Pied Flycatcher – A male in Holy Vale
Yellow Wagtail – 3 “flava” over the Garrison, 6 Porth Hellick, 2 St. Martin’s
White Wagtail – 1 over the Garrison, 1 Old Town Beach, 5 Porth Hellick
Tree Pipit – 1 Bryher
Thursday (15/04)
Citrine Wagtail – The male was still on the south side of Bryher Pool (photo)
Bee-eater – 1 around the school/Lower Moors/Old Town area
Great White Egret – 1 still Rushy Bay, Bryher , then on the pool.
Hoopoe – 1 Little Arthur Farm, St. Martin’s, then at the Vineyard (photo)
Wryneck – 1 Watermill
Blue-headed Wagtail – 2 Salakee (photo), 1 Little Arthur Farm, St. Martin’s
Short-eared Owl – 1 on Bryher flew towards Samson
Shoveler – A pair Porth Hellick
Cuckoo – 1 Trenoweth
Marsh Harrier – A female at Porth Hellick then flew over Maypole towards Watermill. An immature male on St. Martin’s
Green Sandpiper – 1 Porth Hellick
Common Sandpiper – 1 Porth Hellick
Iceland Gull – 2 Porthloo
Cetti’s Warbler – 2 Porth Hellick, 2 Standing Stones Field, Lower Moors
Sedge Warbler – 1 ringed at Porth Hellick
Reed Warbler – 2 Porth Hellick
Whitethroat – 1 near Peninnis allotments
Ring Ouzel – A male just north of Peninnis Lighthouse. 1 Trenoweth, 1 by the windsock on the airfield, 1 near Higher Town, St. Martin’s (photo), 3 on the east side of Popplestone Bay and 1 west of Samson Hill, Bryher
Redstart – A female at Carn Friars
Black Redstart – 1 Bryher Campsite
Yellow Wagtail – 4 Salakee (photo), 1 Little Arthur Farm and 3 in cattle fields north of Higher Town, St. Martin’s
Tree Pipit – 1 Peninnis allotments, 1 Standing Stones field
