Saturday (25/12)
Cattle Egret – 3 with cattle in a field between Parting Carn and Tremelethen and 1 in the horse field near Newford Duck Pond.
Spoonbill – 1 on Green Island, Samson.
Dark-bellied Brent Goose – 1 still at Porthloo.
Cetti’s Warbler – 1 Porth Hellick Loop.
Siberian Chiffchaff – 2 St. Agnes.
Redwing – 24 on the School playing field.
Fieldfare – 2 on the Golf Course.
Black Redstart – 1 on Porthloo Beach and 1 St. Warna’s Cove, St. Agnes.
Sunday (26/12)
Lesser Scaup – 1 still on Abbey Pool, Tresco.
Surf Scoter – The first-winter bird was still near Skirt Island, Tresco.
Cattle Egret – 1 Parting Carn.
Grey Phalarope – 1 sheltering behind the quay in Old Town Bay.
Spoonbill – 2 on Samson.
Dark-bellied Brent Goose – 1 Porthloo and unidentified to subspecies flew from Pentle Bay, Tresco to St. Martin’s.
Eider – 1 off South Beach, Tresco.
Red-throated Diver – 1 off Tresco, viewed from Innisidgen.
Black-throated Diver – 1 off Great Bay, St. Martin’s and this or another seen in Pentle Bay, Tresco.
Great Northern Diver – 3 Old Grimsby, Tresco.
Shelduck – 6 on the Great Pool, Tresco and 2 St. Agnes.
Shoveler – 2 on the Great Pool, Tresco.
Pintail – 2 on the Great Pool, Tresco.
Wigeon – 4 on the Great Pool, Tresco.
Pochard – 10 on the Abbey Pool, Tresco.
Golden Plover – 6 St. Agnes and 9 on Castle Down, Tresco.
Bar Tailed Godwit – 1 on the beach below Bant’s Carn.
Merlin – 1 on St. Agnes.
Cetti’s Warbler – 1 Porth Hellick Loop.
Swallow – A very unseasonable bird over Porthloo boatyard.
Siberian Chiffchaff – 1 on St. Agnes.
Fieldfare – 2 on the Golf Course.
Black Redstart – 2 on Porthloo Beach.
Monday (27/12)
Glossy Ibis – 1 Abbey Road, Tresco.
Cattle Egret – 3 at Longstone.
Spoonbill – 1 on Samson Flats.
Shoveler – Single drakes were seen on Lower Moors Pool, Porth Hellick Pool and the Newford Farm Pools. Whether this involved more than 1 individual is unknown.
Bar Tailed Godwit – 1 ringed bird with a white leg-flag at Porthloo/Porth Mellon was a Polish-ringed bird.
Woodcock – 1 Trenoweth.
Swallow – 1 over Ram’s Valley, Hugh Town.
Siberian Chiffchaff – 1 on St. Agnes.
Black Redstart – 1 Porthloo and on the beach below the Mermaid Carpark.
Tuesday (28/12)
Glossy Ibis – 1 in a field behind Gimble Porth, Tresco.
Cattle Egret – 2 with Cattle at Longstone and Parting Carn.
Little Egret – 1 with the Cattle Egret, 1 Old Town Bay and 1 Porth Hellick.
Spoonbill – 1 flew over Hugh Town and landed on the beach in front of the Atlantic Hotel, it then moved and finally settled in Old Town Bay.
Shoveler – A drake on Porth Hellick Pool.
Knot – 1 at the mouth of Porth Cressa Bay.
Purple Sandpiper – 1 at the mouth of Porth Cressa Bay.
Kingfisher – 1 on the pool at the back of the Standing Stones Field, Lower Moors.
Yellow-browed Warbler – 1 on Lower Moors.
Black Redstart – 1 Little Porth and 1 Porth Mellon.
Grey Wagtail – 1 in a garden on High Lanes.
Wednesday (29/12)
Cattle Egret – 3 with Cattle at Longstone.
Little Egret – 1 with the Cattle Egrets at Longstone and 2 Porthloo
Spoonbill – 1 on Old Town Quay.
Bar Tailed Godwit – 1 on Porth Mellon Beach.
Merlin – 1 over Porthloo
Yellow-browed Warbler – 1 in Lower Moors.
Siberian Chiffchaff – 1 in Lower Moors.
Black Redstart – 1 Porthloo.
Thursday (30/12)
Cattle Egret – 3 with Cattle at Longstone.
Little Egret – 1 with the Cattle Egrets at Longstone and 1 Old town Bay.
Bar Tailed Godwit – 1 on Porthloo Beach.
Yellow-browed Warbler – 1 still in Lower Moors.
Siberian Chiffchaff – 1 still in Lower Moors.
Swallow – 1 around Pelistry Riding Stables.
Black Redstart – 2 Porthloo and 1 Porth Mellon
Friday (31/12)
Spotted Sandpiper – The overwintering bird was back on Porthloo Beach.
Surf Scoter –1 off South Beach, Tresco.
Cattle Egret – 2 still at Longstone.
Red-throated Diver– A juvenile off South Beach, Tresco and a juvenile & adult off Innisidgen. Innisidgen
Great Northern Diver – 8 off Innisidgen.
Bar Tailed Godwit – 1 on Porthloo Beach.
Whimbrel – 11 at Innisidgen.
Yellow-legged Gull – an adult was off Watermill and the flew towards St. Martin’s.
Siberian Chiffchaff – 3 Porth Hellick Loop.
Black Redstart – 3 on Porthloo Beach.
Grey Wagtail – 1 on Porthloo Beach and 1 on Porth Mellon Beach.
Other wildlife news: A Vagrant Emperor Dragonfly was seen between Pelistry and Watermill.
Saturday (01/01)
Spotted Sandpiper – 1 still on Porthloo Beach.
Lesser Scaup – 1 still on Abbey Pool, Tresco.
Glossy Ibis – 1 on Simpson’s Field, Tresco.
Cattle Egret – 3 at Longstone.
Slavonian Grebe – 1 between Bant’s Carn, St. Mary’s and South Beach, Tresco.
Spoonbill – 1 on Samson.
Yellow-browed Warbler – 1 near the old tin hut in Lower Moors.
Little Egret – 1 with the Cattle Egrets at Longstone and 1 Tregear’s Porth.
Shelduck – 6 on the Great Pool and 2 on the Abbey Pool, Tresco.
Wigeon – 5 on the Great Pool, Tresco.
Shoveler – 5 including 2 drakes on the Great Pool, Tresco.
Pintail – A female on the Great Pool, Tresco.
Pochard – 10 on the Abbey Pool, Tresco.
Eider – A male and female off Bathinghouse Porth, Tresco.
Grey Plover – 4 on Foreman Islands, seen from the Blockhouse on Tresco.
Bar Tailed Godwit – 1 on Porthloo Beach.
Whimbrel – 1 flew past Toll’s Hill.
Purple Sandpiper – 3 on Foreman Islands, seen from the Blockhouse on Tresco.
Woodcock – 1 Porth Hellick Loop.
Jack Snipe – 1 in Lower Moors.
Common Gull – 6 off Bathinghouse Porth, Tresco.
Kingfisher – 1 off the old slipway below Toll’s Hill.
Siberian Chiffchaff – 2 Porth Hellick Loop.
Cetti’s Warbler – 1 in Lower Moors.
Black Redstart –1 on the rocks below Tregarthen’s Carpark.
Grey Wagtail –1 on the rocks below Tregarthen’s Carpark.