Wednesday (28/09) 

Common Rosefinch – 1 was still between the 2 quays on Bryher (photo) , with a second bird in the same place late afternoon.

Wryneck – 1 still at Deep Point Quarry, 1 on the coastal path near Giant’s Castle and 1 at Longstone just before dusk.

Nightingale – 1 flushed on the Kittydown trail.

Yellow-browed Warbler – 1 Higher Moors, 1 Lower Moors/Rosehill, 1 in the Parsonage Garden, St. Agnes and 1 just east of Little Arthur Farm, St. Martin’s.

Wigeon – 1 still on Porth Hellick Pool.

Golden Plover – 5 by the coastal path by the airfield east runway lights.

Little Egret – 1 flew north over Pelistry Bay and 2 in Tresco Channel

Mediterranean Gull – c30 in Tresco Channel.

Merlin – 1 flew trough the fields at the back of the school on Tresco.

Kingfisher – 1 Old Town Bay.

Great Spotted Woodpecker – 1 Higher Moors.

Firecrest – 1 in the tall pines beyond the southern gate to Carreg Dhu.

Skylark – 3 at Salakee Farm.

Whitethroat – 1 at Salakee Farm.

Whinchat – 2 at Salakee Farm, 1 on the municipal dump, 1 in the Standing Stones Field, Lower Moors and 2 near the campsite on Bryher.

Common Redstart – 1 Stinky Porth, Bryher.

Pied Flycatcher – 1 still at Newford Duck Pond, 1 at Rosehill and 2 in Holy Vale.

Spotted Flycatcher – 1 on wires at Maypole, 1 near the dump on Bryher and 1 in the Parsonage Garden, St. Agnes.

Thursday (29/09)

Wryneck – 1 still at Deep Point Quarry (photo) and 1 at the recycling centre near the Turks Head pub o St. Agnes.

Red-breasted Flycatcher – The first of the autumn was 1 in the fields above the cricket pitch on St. Martin’s.

Cory’s Shearwater – 1 off Deep Point.

Great Shearwater – 1 in Scilly waters seen from the Scillonian III on the afternoon crossing from St. Mary’s to Penzance.

Balearic – 1 in Scilly waters seen from the Scillonian III on the afternoon crossing from St. Mary’s to Penzance.

Sabine’s Gull – 3 in Scilly waters seen from the Scillonian III on the afternoon crossing from St. Mary’s to Penzance.

Great Skua – 1 in Scilly waters seen from the Scillonian III on the afternoon crossing from St. Mary’s to Penzance.

Arctic Skua – 2 in Scilly waters seen from the Scillonian III on the afternoon crossing from St. Mary’s to Penzance.

Yellow-browed Warbler – 1 Higher Moors on the trail to Holy Vale by the road.

Little Egret – 2 on the Great Pool, Tresco.

Golden Plover – 5 in the heather 100 yards north of Giant’s Castle.

Black-tailed Godwit – 2 on Abbey Pool and 1 on the Great Pool, Tresco.

Jack Snipe – 2 on Porth Hellick Pool and 1 at Lower Moors.

Pied Flycatcher – 1 on the road between the Police Station & the Garrison Archway and 1 in the fields above the cricket pitch on St. Martin’s.

Skylark – 6 flew north over Porth Wreck.

Friday (30/09)

Olive-backed Pipit – 1heard flying over the dump path towards the allotments.

Wryneck – 1 on rocks between Old Town Bay and Peninnis Head.

Yellow-browed Warbler – 1 Higher Moors on the trail to Holy Vale 100 metres from the road and 1 at Longstone.

Golden Plover – 4 at Giant’s Castle

Whimbrel – 1 on Peninnis.

Jack Snipe – 2 on Porth Hellick Pool

Kingfisher – 1 on Porth Hellick Pool.

Whinchat – 2 seen from the IOSBG hide in Lower Moors and 1 at Rosehill.

Pied Flycatcher – 1 Rosehill Memorial Gardens and 1 still at Newford Duck Pond.

Grey Wagtail – 1 from the IOSBG hide at Lower Moors.

Yellow Wagtail – 1 Rosehill Memorial Gardens

(c) Wayne Collingham
(c) Wayne Collingham
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