Saturday (01/05)
Red-Footed Falcon – 1 flew over Kittydown towards Porth Hellick Down
Red-throated Pipit – 1 still in the low cut reeds near the ringing lanes beside Porth Hellick Pool
Purple Heron – 1 seen several times around Lower Moors and Porth Hellick
Woodchat Shrike – 1 in the Standing Stones Field and adjacent fields at Lower Moors
Turtle Dove – 1 St. Agnes, 1 heard at Higher Moors
Whimbrel – 14 Par Beach, 21 Lawrance’s Bay, 9 Little Bay, St. Martin’s, 7 Porthloo, 30 Bryher
Iceland Gull – 1 Porthloo, 1 in the garden behind Star Castle
Cetti’s Warbler – 1 by the Stephen Sussex hide, Porth Hellick, 1 singing by the pools in the Standing Stones Field, Lower Moors and 1 on St. Agnes
Garden Warbler – 1 still at Sallyport
Black Redstart – 1 Bryher
Siskin – 2 on garden feeders in Ennor Close, Old Town, 1 on a feeder in a garden on High Lanes
Sunday (02/05)
Red-throated Pipit – 1 still in the low cut reeds near the ringing lanes beside Porth Hellick Pool
Richard’s Pipit – A “very probable” on the north end of Samson in the evening
Purple Heron – 1 seen again at Lower Moors Pool
Cattle Egret – 4 on Tresco
Golden Oriole – A male seen twice in flight below Bant’s Carn
Cuckoo – 1 flew from Bant’s Carn towards Telegraph
Turtle Dove – On St. Agnes 1 flew over Higher Town and what was probably the same bird was in the field next to the Pot Buoy Gallery
Black-throated Diver – 1 Bull’s Porth, St. Matins
Great Northern Diver – 7 seen between the islands form the “Seabird Special” boat trip, 1 Periglis, St. Agnes, 5 Great Bay & 4 Lawrance’s Bay St. Martin’s
Little Egret – 1 near Samson
Golden Plover – 1 Beady Pool, St. Agnes
Grey Plover – 1 Tresco
Whimbrel – 5 Periglis, St. Agnes, 47 Lawrance’s Bay, 11 Perpitch, St. Martin’s, 18 on rocks at the Campsite Beach, 1 Covean Beach, 2 Beady Pool, St. Agnes, 4 Samson, 2 Porth Thomas
Purple Sandpiper – 3 Little Bay, St. Martin’s
Common Sandpiper – 1 Covean Beach, St. Agnes
Iceland Gull – 1 on the beach at Little Bay, St. Martin’s, 1 past Juliet’s Café and 1 around Hugh Town Quay
Merlin – A female over airfield
Grasshopper Warbler – 1 still reeling near the entrance road to the Golf Club
Yellow Wagtail – 1 in the low cut reeds near the ringing lanes beside Porth Hellick Pool
White Wagtail – 2 Periglis, St. Agnes, 1 Samson
