Saturday (01/10)

Common Rosefinch – 1 on a log pile at Helvear and 1 in the house garden on Gugh.

Yellow-browed Warbler – 1 possibly 2 at Higher Moors near the road, 1 in a field at the Bay end of Pelistry Lane and 1 in the Standing Stones Field, Lower Moors.

Great Shearwater – 2 in Scilly waters seen from the Scillonian III on the return trip from St. Mary’s to Penzance.

Sooty Shearwater – 1 in Scilly waters seen from the Scillonian III on the return trip from St. Mary’s to Penzance.

Wigeon – 1 on Porth Hellick Pool and 1 on the Great Pool, Tresco.

Pintail – 1 on the Great Pool, Tresco.

Shoveler – 1 on the Great Pool, Tresco.

Pochard – 1 on the Great Pool, Tresco.

Tufted Duck – 1 on the Great Pool, Tresco.

Golden Plover – 1 flew over Shipman Head Down, Bryher.

Grey Plover – 4 briefly on Abbey Pool, Tresco.

Spotted Redshank – 1 on the Great Pool, Tresco.

Grey Phalarope – 1 seen off Giant’s Castle from the Scillonian III on the return trip from St. Mary’s to Penzance.

Common Sandpiper – 1 on Porthloo Beach.

Curlew Sandpiper – 4 on the Great Pool, Tresco.

Black-tailed Godwit – 3 on Abbey Pool, Tresco.

Whimbrel – 3 on rocks at Innisidgen and 1 in Pelistry Bay.

Jack Snipe – 1 on Porth Hellick Pool.

Little Egret – 2 by the quay on Bryher,

Kingfisher – 1 Lower Moors, 1 Old Town Bay, 1 Watermill Cove and 1 bread & Cheese Cove, St. Martin’s.

Wryneck – 1 still in the quarry at Deep Point and 1 by the lighthouse on Peninnis.

Great Spotted Woodpecker – 1 calling at Higher Moors , later seen flying past Longstone.

Lesser Whitethroat – 1 at Higher Moors.

Common Whitethroat – 1 on Tresco and 1 on St.Martin’s.

Garden Warbler – 1 at the junction of Porthloo Lane and Telegraph Road.

Siberian Chiffchaff – 1 at the start of the Sunnyside Trail.

Firecrest – 2 in Carreg Dhu Gardens

Whinchat – 1 at Higher Moors, 1 from the hide in Lower Moors, 1 Bant’s Carn, 1 on St. Martin’s and 1 on Bryher.

Common Redstart – 1 near the boat hire on Bryher.

Pied Flycatcher – 2 at Rosehill, 1 at Helvear, 1 at Newford Duck Pond, 1 at the north end of Holy Vale, 1 in the Carreg Dhu pine belt

Spotted Flycatcher – 2 at Trenoweth, 1 in Carreg Dhu Gardens and 2 opposite Holy Vale vineyard.

Grey Wagtail – 1 flew over Rosehill and 1 on Bryher.

Crossbill – 1 flew north over Watermill

Sunday (02/10)

Common Rosefinch – 1 at Peninnis allotments and 1 on St. Agnes Cricket Pitch.

Yellow-browed Warbler – 1 Porth Hellick, 2 Higher Moors in sallows by the road, 2 in Longstone and 1 in the Parsonage Garden, St. Agnes.

Cory’s Shearwater – 32 off Horse Point, St. Agnes and 73 on a pelagic trip 3 miles southwest of St. Agnes (photo).

Great Shearwater – 7 off Horse Point, St. Agnes and 5 on a pelagic trip 3 miles southwest of St.Agnes.

Sooty Shearwater – 8 off Horse Point, St. Agnes and 2 on a pelagic trip 3 miles southwest of St.Agnes.

Balearic Shearwater – 1 off Horse Point, St. Agnes.

European Storm-petrel – 2 on a pelagic trip 3 miles southwest of St. Agnes.

Brent Goose – 2 on Teän.

Pintail – 3 on Porth Hellick Pool and 1 on the Great Pool, Tresco.

Wigeon – 1 on Porth Hellick Pool.

Pochard – 1 on the Great Pool, Tresco.

Golden Plover – 6 on the airfield.

Grey Plover – 3 on Teän.

Curlew Sandpiper – 4 on the Great Pool, Tresco.

Black-tailed Godwit – 4 on the Great Pool, Tresco.

Bar-tailed Godwit – 10 Pentle Bay, Tresco.

Whimbrel – About 15 around St. Mary’s.

Jack Snipe– 1 Porth Hellick Pool.

Grey Phalarope – 1 on a pelagic trip 3 miles southwest of St. Agnes (photo).

Little Gull – 1 on a pelagic trip 3 miles southwest of St. Agnes.

Great Skua – 1 off Horse Point, St. Agnes.

Wryneck – 1 still in Porth Wreck quarry at Deep Point and 1 at Carn Leh.

Great Spotted Woodpecker – 1 heard calling at several locations around St. Mary’s.

Redwing – 1 at Helvear.

Garden Warbler – 1 on St. Martin’s. 

Firecrest – 2 in the pines between Carn Friars Lane and Longstone.

Whinchat – 2 by Stephen Sussex Hide at Porth Hellick

Common Redstart – 1 Porth Hellick.

Pied Flycatcher – 1 in Rosehill Gardens.

Spotted Flycatcher – 2 at Trenoweth and 2 at Maypole.

Grey Wagtail – 1 Old Town Bay and 1 Porth Hellick Pool.

Atlantic Bluefin Tuna – 6 on a pelagic trip 3 miles southwest of St. Agnes.

Monday (03/10)

Little Bunting – 1 in the ploughed field next to bakery on St. Martin’s.

Common Rosefinch – 1 still in the sycamore on Peninnis allotments.

Yellow-browed Warbler – 1 in the sycamore near the entrance to Carreg Dhu Gardens, 1 Higher Moors, 1 Porth Hellick Loop, 1 Tremelethen and 1 in Holy Vale.

Firecrest – 1 in the sycamore near the entrance to Carreg Dhu Gardens and 1 Longstone.

Long-tailed Duck – 1 off Par Beach, St. Martin’s (photo).

Cory’s Shearwater – 5 past Peninnis, 50+ from the Scillonian III on the morning crossing from Penzance to St. Mary’s and 8 on the return crossing in the evening.

Great Shearwater – 70 from the Scillonian III on the morning crossing from Penzance to St. Mary’s and 170 on the return crossing in the evening.

Sooty Shearwater – 15 from the Scillonian III on the morning crossing from Penzance to St. Mary’s and 1 on the return crossing in the evening.

Balearic Shearwater – 20 0n the return crossing in the evening.

Little Gull – 1 headed west from Old town past Peninnis and then past Long Point, St. Agnes.

Curlew Sandpiper – 5 on the Great Pool and 4 on Abbey Pool, Tresco.

Common Sandpiper – 1 on St. Martin’s.

Black-tailed Godwit – 2 Abbey Pool, Tresco.

Bar-tailed Godwit – 2 on St. Martin’s.

Whimbrel – 1 flew over Peninnis.

Jack Snipe – 1 still on Porth Hellick Pool.

Mediterranean Gull – 1 Porth Cressa.

Great Skua – 1 from the Scillonian III on the morning crossing from Penzance to St. Mary’s.

Merlin – 1 on Gugh.

Kingfisher – 1 Hugh Town Harbour and 1 at Porth Killier, St. Agnes.

Wryneck – 1 still in the quarry at Porth Wreck an d 1 at Killimay Point, St. Agnes.

Great Spotted Woodpecker – A female in Holy Vale.

Cetti’s Warbler – 1 between the hides on the Great Pool, Tresco and 1 retrapped

at Porth Hellick Ringing Station which was firs ringed in 2020.

Common Whitethroat – 1 in the sycamore on Peninnis allotments.

Lesser Whitethroat – 1 by the entrance to Higher Moors.

Garden Warbler – 1 in the sycamore on Peninnis allotments and 1 in the willows behind the pool on St. Martin’s.

Whinchat – 1 Salakee, 1 near Troy Town Maze, St. Agnes, 2 on St. Martin’s and 3 by the campsite on Bryher.

Pied Flycatcher – 1 Holy Vale, 1 in the Dump Clump and 1 in Lower Moors.

Spotted Flycatcher – 2 Carreg Dhu Gardens,1 near Longstone Cottages, 1 Parting Carn, 1 Carn Friars Farm and 2 St. Agnes.

Tree Pipit – 1 flew over Peninnis and 1 north of the Abbey Pool, Tresco.

Yellow Wagtail – 2 on Tresco Heliport.

(c) Joe Pender
(c) Joe Pender
(c) Joe Pender
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