Friday (16/04)
Tawny Pipit – 1 flew north over Popplestone, Bryher
Bee-eater – 1 heard at Lower Moors/Old Town seen in the afternoon in trees along Old Town Lane and in flight over the chicken field at Parting Carn
Hoopoe – 1 at the Vineyard, St. Martin’s flew towards Little Arthur Farm, 1 reported at the Garrison Campsite
Great White Egret – 1 still on Bryher Pool
Blue-headed Wagtail – 2 with the Yellow Wagtails commuting between Porth Hellick reed bed and a field on Salakee Farm
Shoveler – 3 drakes and a female on Porth Hellick Pool
Pintail – 1 at Stinky Porth, Bryher
Marsh Harrier – A female was at Lower Moors and Porth Hellick. It or another was also seen circling over Tresco
Whimbrel – 1 Popplestone Bay, Bryher
Common Sandpiper – 1 on Porth Hellick Pool
Iceland Gull – 2 juveniles still at Porthloo
Sandwich Tern – 1 Bryher
Common Tern – 3 off Carn Near
Short-eared Owl – 1 Heathy Hill, Bryher
Cetti’s Warbler – 1 singing near the the Wastewater Treatment works at Lower Moors, 1 calling at Porth Hellick
Sedge Warbler – 1 trapped and ringed at Porth Hellick Ringing Station, 1 Lower Moors
Grasshopper Warbler – 1 trapped and ringed at Porth Hellick Ringing Station
Whitethroat – 1 at Popplestone fields, Bryher
Ring Ouzel – 2 by the coastal path on the west side of Peninnis, 2 High Lanes, 2 by the Windsock on the airfield, 1 above Bread and Cheese cove St. Martin’s, a male above Popplestone, Bryher
Redstart – A female at Bryher Campsite
Yellow Wagtail – 4 commuting between the cattle field by the road at Higher Moors and a field on Salakee Farm
Grey Wagtail – A female in Lower Moors
White Wagtail – 2 Bryher
Tree Pipit – 1 Bryher
Saturday (17/04)
Bee-eater – 1 showing well on and off in the Lunnon/ Normandy/ Carn Friars area (photo)
Shoveler – 4 on Porth Hellick Pool
Great Northern Diver – 1 in the roads
Little Egret – 1 Bryher
Marsh Harrier – 1 Porth Hellick also over Longstone
Whimbrel – 1 Bryher
Common Sandpiper – 1 flew from Lower Moors towards Porth Hellick
Green Sandpiper – 2 flew from Lower Moors towards Porth Hellick
Iceland Gull – 2 Porthloo Beach one also seen in Hugh Town Harbour and the golf Club carpark
Jackdaw – 1 over Holy Vale (photo)
Skylark – 1 Chapel Down, St. Martin’s
Cetti’s Warbler – 2 near the water treatment works on Trench Lane
Ring Ouzel – 1 by the windsock on the airfield, 1 by Bryher Pool, 2 Higher Lanes, 1 north east of Higher Town, St. Mary’s
Black Redstart – A male at Little Arthur Farm, St. Martin’s
White Wagtail – 2 Bryher
