Friday (04/06)
Rose-coloured Starling – 1 at Carn Friars which flew towards Porth Hellick Down
Friday (04/06)
Knot – a summer-plumaged bird was on Green Island, Tresco (photo)
Sunday (06/06)
Rose-coloured Starling – 1again at Carn Friars
Iceland Gull – 1 on St. Mary’s
Monday (07/06)
Rose-coloured Starling – 1 again at Carn Friars
Iceland Gull – A mobile juvenile still on St. Mary’s
Arctic Skua –1 on the evening pelagic trip
European Storm-petrel – 6 on the evening pelagic trip
Tuesday (08/06)
Rose-coloured Starling – 1 at Pelistry Farm and 1 on Bryher
Shelduck – 2 pairs on Tresco, 1 with 1 duckling and the other with 7 ducklings
Pochard – 1 on Tresco with 4 ducklings
Whimbrel – 3 Tresco
Cuckoo– 1 on Tresco
Iceland Gull – The mobile juvenile was still on St. Mary’s
Lesser Redpoll – 1 flew north over High Lanes
Wednesday (09/06)
Black Kite – A kite species that had been around for a couple of days on St. Martin’s
Rose-coloured Starling – 1 in the garden behind Star Castle
Thursday (10/06)
Rose-coloured Starling – 2 on slopes above Little Bay, St. Martin’s
Sabine’s Gull –A first-summer bird on the evening pelagic trip, a very scarce bird in Scillonian waters in June (photo)
Iceland Gull – 1 in the garden behind Star Castle
European Storm-petrel – 35 on the evening pelagic trip
Raven – 2 at the Daymark, St. Martin’s
Friday (11/06)
Thick fog all day!
Saturday (12/06)
Rose-coloured Starling – Still 2 on St. Martin’s, feeding on flax flowers above Wine Cove
Common Scoter – A female off St. Martin’s
Iceland Gull – 1behind the quay in Hugh Town Harbour
Siskin – A pair with 2 young at McFarland’s Down. It would appear they have bred again after an absence of several years.
