Wednesday (08/09)

Western Bonelli’s Warbler – there are now 2 birds on the islands, 1 was seen in a field in the northwest corner of Hillside Farm Bryher and original one was still in the Garrison pines.

Woodchat Shrike – A first-summer bird behind the cricket pitch, St. Martin’s. From plumage details it was identified as a different bird to the 1 that was at Helvear, St. Mary’s on Monday & Tuesday.

Common Rosefinch – A juvenile still around the pumping station on Bryher.

Marsh Warbler – 1 on Trench Lane, Old Town.

Wryneck – 1 in a garden on Church Street which then flew to the Chaplaincy Garden, 1 on the coastal track on the west side of Peninnis, 1 on Carn Friars Farm (photo), 3 on Bryher and 1 on St. Martin’s.

Turtle Dove – 1 still at Normandy with a Collared Dove flock in a field 200 yards along the road from “The Moos”.

Curlew Sandpiper – 1 on Abbey Pool, Tresco.

Common Sandpiper – 1 Porth Hellick Pool.

Kingfisher – the first of the autumn was 1 in Lower Moors.

Swift – 1 flew east over the Garrison.

Common Whitethroat – 1 in the Standing Stones Field, Lower Moors.

Lesser Whitethroat – 1 in the Standing Stones Field, Lower Moors.

Spotted Flycatcher – 11 on the Garrison, 1 in a garden on Church Road and 1 Salakee Farm

Pied Flycatcher – 4 on the Garrison, 1 in Old Town in the copse opposite Airport Lane 2 on St. Martin’s.

Redstart – 1 Carn Friars Farm and 1 on St.Martin’s.

Whinchat –3 on the Garrison, 2 Carn Friars Farm, 1 in the Standing Stones Field, Lower Moors, 2 below the Health Centre, 2 Watermill, 2 on King Edward’s Road, Peninnis and 1 on St. Martin’s.

Tree Pipit – 2 Green Farm, 2 in the Standing Stones Field, Lower Moors, 1 on the Garrison, and 1 on St. Martins.

(c) James Walsh
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