Friday (08/10)

Pectoral Sandpiper – 1 still on Abbey Pool, Tresco.

Sabine’s Gull – 1 seen from the Scillonian III on the morning crossing from Penzance to St. Mary’s.

Spotted Crake – 1 seen briefly from the IOSBG Hide in Lower Moors.

Red-breasted Flycatcher – 1 still in the Middle Town pines, St. Martin’s.

Rose-coloured Starling – 1 at Hillside Farm, Bryher.

Dotterel – 3 on Castle Down, Tresco.

Spotted Redshank – 1 still on the Great Pool. 

Turtle Dove – 1 still near Holy Vale Vineyard.

Snow Bunting – 1 Deep Point, 1 Castle Down, Tresco, 1 at Browarth, St. Agnes and 1 Shipman Head Down, Bryher.

Yellow-browed Warbler – 1 on the path between the road and the hides at Porth Hellick and 1 by Doctor’s Cottage, New Grimsby, Tresco.

Pale-bellied Brent Goose – 4 on Bryher Pool and 4 Abbey Pool, Tresco.

Pink-footed Goose – 2 on Bryher Pool and then moved to the Great Pool, Tresco.

Balearic Shearwater – 1 seen from the Scillonian III on the morning crossing from Penzance to St. Mary’s.

Sooty Shearwater – 1 seen from the Scillonian III on the morning crossing from Penzance to St. Mary’s.

Little Egret – 2 Porth Cressa and 4 in Tresco Channel.

Shoveler – 1 Tresco.

Common Sandpiper – 1 at Preseil, St. Martin’s.

Bar-tailed Godwit – 1 Porthloo.

Whimbrel – 1 Bar Point and 1 St. Martin’s.

Mediterranean Gull – 14 on the Great Pool, Tresco.

Great Skua – 2 seen from the Scillonian III on the morning crossing from Penzance to St. Mary’s.

Kingfisher – 1 Porth Cressa.

Skylark – 2 Deep Point, 1 St. Martin’s and 2 Bryher.

Cetti’s Warbler – 1 singing on Porth Hellick Loop.

Garden Warbler – 1 Old Grimsby, Tresco.

Whitethroat – 1 Old Grimsby, Tresco and 1 Bryher.

Lesser Whitethroat – 1 by the road at Higher Moors.

Firecrest – 1 Morning Point Battery on the Garrison.

Mistle Thrush – 1 on St. Martin’s.– 1 east of Middle Town pines, St. Martin’s, 1 Bryher, 1 behind the church on Tresco, 1 on Back Lane, Tresco and 1 Porth Killier Beach, St. Agnes.

Redstart –1 below Porth Hellick House on the fence of the field running down to the road 1 at Preseil, St. Martin’s.

Black Redstart – 1 on house roofs in Trench Lane, Old Town,1 on the north end of Porthloo Beach, 2 on the beach at Troy Town, St. Agnes, 4 on Tresco school roof and 1 on Back Lane, Tresco.

Spotted Flycatcher – 1 along the Dead Pine Walk on the Garrison, 1 on St. Martin’s, 1 on Tresco School roof and 1 Bryher.

Pied Flycatcher – 1 still in the Middle Town pines, St. Martin’s,1 in the Garrison pines behind the Cadet Hit, 1 Veronica Farm, Bryher and 1 on Barnaby Lane, St. Agnes.

Grey Wagtail – 1 Bryher and 1 on St.Martin’s.

Saturday (09/10)

Blyth’s Reed Warbler – 1 trapped, ringed and released at Porth Hellick Ringing Station (photo).

Radde’s Warbler – 1 west of Middle Town Barn, St. Martin’s.

Rose-coloured Starling – 1 at Hillside Farm, Bryher.

Common Rosefinch – A juvenile at Little Arthur Farm, St. Martin’s.

Yellow-browed Warbler – 1 on Pool Road, Tresco and 1 Popplestone Bay, Bryher.

Red-breasted Flycatcher – 1 still in Middle Town Pines, St. Martin’s and 1 at Hell Bay/ Shipman Head Down, Bryher.

Dotterel – 3 on Castle Down, Tresco and maybe 1 of these flew over Shipman Head Down, Bryher.

Grey Phalarope – 1 seen from the Scillonian III on the morning crossing from Penzance to St. Mary’s.

Spotted Redshank – 1 still on the Great Pool. 

Snow Bunting – 1 reported from the Woolpack Battery, 1 Redan B, 1 Bartholomew Battery & 1 Colonel George Boscawen’s Battery, all on the Garrison were probably the same bird, 2 Deep Point, 1 at the Daymark, St. Martin’s and 1 still at Browarth, St. Agnes.

Balearic Shearwater – 2 seen from the Scillonian III on the morning crossing from Penzance to St. Mary’s.

Sooty Shearwater – 1 seen from the Scillonian III on the afternoon crossing from St. Mary’s to Penzance.

Great Skua – 4 seen from the Scillonian III on the morning crossing from Penzance to St. Mary’s, 1 flew west past Castle Down, Tresco seen from the Scillonian III on the afternoon crossing from St. Mary’s to Penzance.

Arctic Skua – 1 flew west past Peninnis and 3 seen from the Scillonian III on the afternoon crossing from St. Mary’s to Penzance.

Merlin – 1 behind the cricket pitch on Tresco and over Old Town Churchyard.

Kingfisher – 1 trapped, ringed and released at Porth Hellick Ringing Station and 1 on Toll’s Island, Pelistry Bay.

Turtle Dove – 1 at Sandy Banks Farm and it or another back opposite Holy Vale Vineyard.

Jack Snipe – 1 on Lower Moors Pool and 1 flushed from Toll’s Island, Pelistry Bay.

Lapwing – 1 flew over Porth Hellick and was later seen at Pelistry.

Bar-tailed Godwit – 1 Porthloo.

Whimbrel – 2 Bar Point.

Pale-bellied Brent Goose – 1 on Bryher Pool.

Pink-footed Goose – 2 on the Great Pool, Tresco and 2 on Bryher Pool.

Eider – 1 still at the west end of Great Gannick.

Cetti’s Warbler – 1 at Shooter’s Pool, lower Moors, 1 singing Porth Hellick and 1 calling at the Dump Clump.

Garden Warbler – 1 Carn Friars.

Lesser Whitethroat – 1 by the Cadet Hut on the Garrison, 1 Pungies Lane and 1 at the Higher Moors end of Holy Vale.

Mistle Thrush – 1 on Bryher.

Black Redstart – 2 In a High Lanes Garden, 1 at the Garrison Play Park, 1 Church Point,2 by the lighthouse on Peninnis, 2 on the Health Centre roof, 1 Town Beach, 2 between Halangy Point and Pendrathen, 1 Upper Benham Battery, Garrison, 2 on Tresco school roof, 2 Porth Hellick Beach, 4 St. Nicholas’s Church, Tresco, 3 behind the cricket pitch on Tresco, 1 Tresco Boatyard, 1 Tresco Abbey, 1 at Hell Bay/Shipman Head Down, Bryher.

Common Redstart – 1 Pelistry Lane, 1 between Halangy Point and Pendrathen and 1 St. Martin’s.

Whinchat – 1 at the Garrison Play Park, 1 Porthloo Duck Pond, 1 between Halangy Point and Pendrathen, 1 St. Nicholas’s Church, Tresco and 1 Castle Down, Tresco.

Spotted Flycatcher – 1 by Elms Gallery, 1 by the Cadet Hut on the Garrison, 1 behind the cricket pitch on Tresco, 1 Pool Road, Tresco, 1 St. Nicholas’s Church, Tresco, 1 near the Seven Stones Inn, St. Martin’s and 3 Popplestone Fields, Bryher.

Pied Flycatcher – 1 by the Cadet Hut on the Garrison, 1 St. Nicholas’s Church, Tresco, 2 at the bottom of Rocky Hills, 1 at the top of Sunnyside Farm Trail, , 1 Sandy Lane, 1 near the Seven Stones Inn, St. Martin’s, 1 Popplestone Fields, Bryher

Tree Pipit – 1 flew over the west side of Peninnis.

Yellow Wagtail – 1 by the Health Centre and 1 St. Martin’s.

Redpoll sp. – 1 Redan Battery, Garrison.

Brambling – 2 Pool Road, Tresco.

Siskin – 1 flew over Castle Down, Tresco.

(c) Alan Hannington
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