Tuesday (18/10)
Blackburnian Warbler – The first-winter male was still in Popplestone Fields, Bryher.
Wilson’s Snipe – 1 still at Porth Hellick Pool.
Booted Warbler – 1 in the moat of Star Castle on the Garrison (photo).
American Buff-breasted Pipit – 1 showed well at Normandy Corner.
Olive-backed Pipit – 2 “probables” on Longstone Lane.
Red-throated Pipit – 1 flew low over the Tremelethen Trail.
Little Bunting – 1 Carn Vean fields (photo).
Common Rosefinch – 1 still on the Garrison on the road to Newman House.
Pallas’s Warbler – 1 caught and ringed on St.Agnes (photo).
Red-breasted Flycatcher – 1 the field opposite Normandy House.
Yellow-browed Warbler – 1 Newford Duck Pond, 1 near Carn Friars Farm Shop, 1 in the Dump Clump, 1 Holy Vale,1 on the Dead Pine Walk & 1 Steval, both Garrison, and on St. Martin’s 1 below the School& 1 at Little Arthur Farm, St. Martin’s.
Bluethroat – 1 in a rapeseed field at the junction of Telegraph Road and Pungies Lane (photo).
Cory’s Shearwater – 2 off Peninnis Head and 3+ lingering off Horse Point, St. Agnes.
Great Shearwater – 3+ off Peninnis Head.
Sooty Shearwater – 2 off Peninnis Head and 2 off Horse Point, St. Agnes.
Manx Shearwater – 2 off Peninnis Head.
Pink-footed Goose – 10 still on St. Martin’s.
Long-tailed Duck – 1 in flight in the Roads.
Pintail – 1 on the Great Pool, Tresco.
Tufted Duck – 1 on the Great Pool, Tresco.
Cattle Egret – 1 Simpson’s Field, Tresco.
Spoonbill – 3 Green Island, Samson (photo).
Little Egret – 1 Porth Hellick Beach.
Grey Plover – 1 still on Porth Hellick Beach.
Golden Plover – 1 on Peninnis.
Black-tailed Godwit – 2 on the Great Pool, Tresco.
Whimbrel – 1 flew past the Steval on the Garrison.
Jack Snipe – 1 Porth Hellick Pool.
Arctic Skua – 4 off Peninnis Head.
Great Skua – 4 off Peninnis Head.
Kingfisher – 1 on the jetty in Old Town Bay and 1 Carn Morval.
Firecrest – 2 Carreg Dhu Gardens.
Mistle Thrush – 1 Borough Farm, St. Mary’s.
Redwing – 20+ Longstone and 2 in a bulb field at between Parting Carn & Higher Moors.
Whinchat – 1 in a rapeseed field at the junction of Telegraph Road and Pungies Lane and 2 in the horse paddock by the airport entrance.
Black Redstart – 1 Porthloo Beach.
Spotted Flycatcher –1 Sunnyside Farm Trail and 1 St. Martin’s Cricket Pitch.
Skylark – 3 over Pungies Lane.
Grey Wagtail – 2 Sunnyside Farm Trail and1 Porth Hellick Pool.
Lapland Bunting – 1 on the coastal path to Hell Bay, Bryher.
Snow Bunting – 1 Gimble Porth, Tresco.
Redpoll – 6 flying around the Old Town end of the Peninnis Farm Trail.
Siskin – 10 in Carreg Dhu Gardens.
