Friday (21/10)
Blackburnian Warbler – The first-winter male was still in Popplestone Fields, Bryher.
Pallid Swift – 1 on St. Agnes (photo) and 1 over the north end of St. Mary’s with a Common Swift.
Wilson’s Snipe – 1 still at Porth Hellick Pool.
American Buff-breasted Pipit – 1 still at Pelistry Riding Stables.
Red-throated Pipit – 1 over Pelistry farm and probably the same 1 at Content.
Short-toed Lark – 1 in a field near Coastguards, St. Agnes.
Cory’s Shearwater – 1 past Peninnis Head.
Great Shearwater – 2 past Peninnis Head, 11 past Giant’s Castle and 3 in Scilly waters seen from the Scillonian III on the return trip from St. Mary’s to Penzance.
Sooty Shearwater – 1 past Peninnis Head, 5 past Giant’s Castle and 3 in Scilly waters seen from the Scillonian III on the return trip from St. Mary’s to Penzance.
Wryneck – 1 at Salakee just below the airfield runway.
Yellow-browed Warbler – 1 at the entrance to the Garrison Campsite, 1 Dump Clump, 1 in the garden of Carn Wethers Guesthouse, Pelistry, 1 Borough Farm, St. Mary’s, 1 in pines north of Helvear and 1 Rowesfield Crossroads, Tresco.
Woodlark – 2 in a field near Coastguards, St. Agnes.
Hawfinch – 2 flew south from Content.
Osprey – 1 spent the day touring St. Mary’s, paying a brief visit to Tresco.`
Pochard – A male & female on the Great Pool, Tresco.
Cattle Egret – 1 in a field with cows on Pool Road, Tresco.
Spoonbill – 3 still on Green Island.
Grey Plover – 4 Shipman Head Down, Bryher.
Golden Plover – 2 Shipman Head Down, Bryher.
Black-tailed Godwit – 3 on the Great Pool, Tresco.
Jack Snipe – 1 on a muddy scrape in a garden behind Star Castle on the Garrison.
Woodcock – 2 on Peninnis and 1 in a field on the westside of Old Town Bay.
Great Skua – 2 in Scilly waters seen from the Scillonian III on the return trip from St. Mary’s to Penzance.
Long-tailed skua –1 in Scilly waters seen from the Scillonian III on the return trip from St. Mary’s to Penzance.
Merlin – 1 on the west side of Peninnis and a male flew over the woodpile and heliport on Tresco.
Mistle Thrush – 1 in field opposite Farmer Brown’s bulb shop.
Fieldfare – Lower numbers than yesterday but still several hundred
Redwing – Small groups of 10 or less around St.Mary’s.
Ring Ouzel – 15 on St. Mary’s and 2 on Bryher.
Skylark – 1 over Longstone.
Black Redstart – 12 on St. Mary’s and 1 on Tresco.
Firecrest – 1 in Carreg Dhu Gardens.
Whinchat – 1 Salakee.
Spotted Flycatcher – 1 Sandy Lane.
Grey Wagtail – 2 on he Garrison and 1 on Lower Moors Pool.
Brambling – 2 on the Sunnyside Farm Trail, 1 on the Peninnis Farm Trail, 1 Longstone, 1 over the Garrison and 1 in the Standing Stones Field, Lower Moors.
Siskin – 6 Trenoweth and 14 between Newford Duck Pond & Watermill.
Snow Bunting –1 Shipman Head Down, Bryher.
Saturday (22/10)
Blackburnian Warbler – The first-winter male was still in Popplestone Fields, Bryher.
Wilson’s Snipe – 1 still at Porth Hellick Pool.
Pallid Swift – 1 toured St. Mary’s before spending the late afternoon flying around Star Castle on The Garrison and giving every one excellent views, sometimes flying past with a few feet of observers.
American Buff-breasted Pipit – 1 still at Normandy Corner.
Olive-backed Pipit – 1 in a field edge along Pool Road, Tresco.
Red-throated Pipit – 1 in fields on Pungies Lane.
Short-toed Lark – 1 still in a field near Coastguards, St. Agnes.
Woodlark – 2 still in a field near Coastguards, St. Agnes.
Swift (sp) – an unidentified Swift flew over Porthcressa and over the Duchy Cottages on the Garrison.
Cory’s Shearwater – 1 flew west pat Kettle Point, Tresco and 3 seen from the Scillonian III within Scilly waters.
Great Shearwater – “100s” flying past the islands, with 150 seen from the Scillonian III within Scilly waters, 234 past Porth Cressa between 16:00 & 16:30 and 102 between 17:40 & 17:50
Sooty Shearwater – 2 past Peninnis Head and 7 seen from the Scillonian III within Scilly waters
Manx Shearwater – 2 seen from the Scillonian III within Scilly waters
Cattle Egret – 1 along Pool Road and the flew towards the Great Pool, Tresco.
Golden Plover – 2 flew over Hugh Town.
Lapwing – 2 flying towards Telegraph.
Purple Sandpiper – 3 seen from the Scillonian III within Scilly waters
Bar-tailed Godwit – 1 Porth Mellon and 3 on Bryher.
Whimbrel – 2 on Bryher.
Woodcock – 1 at Little Arthur Farm
Little Egret – 1 Porth Hellick Bay and 1 on St.Martin’s.
Common Gull – 1 Porth Cressa.
Mediterranean Gull –12+ on Pilchard Pool rocks, Porthcressa.
Arctic Skua – 1 in the Roads.
Osprey – 1 over St. Agnes.
Skylark – 5 on St. Martin’s.
Cetti’s Warbler – 1 singing in Lower Moors and 1 singing at Porth Hellick.
Yellow-browed Warbler – 1 on Porth Hellick Loop Trail, 1 in elms near Newman House, 1 in the Dump Clump and 1 Little Arthur Farm, St. Martin’s
Lesser Whitethroat – 1 in the Standing Stones Field, Lower Moors.
Firecrest – 2 Carreg Dhu Gardens, 1 trapped and ringed on St. Agnes (photo).
Fieldfare/Redwing – A mixes flock of 100+ birds in a bulb field on High Lanes, with 114 Fieldfare & 7 Redwing on St. Martin’s and 100 Fieldfare on Bryher.
Ring Ouzel – 1 in a garden at Borough Farm, St. Mary’s, 2 on Castella Down, St. Agnes, 2 on Bryher and 1 at Little Arthur Farm, St. Martin’s.
Black Redstart – 2 at Pelistry Riding Stables, 4 Porthloo, 1 by Peninnis Lighthouse, 1 Town Beach, 1 at Little Porth Askin, St. Agnes and 2 by the cricket nets on St. Martin’s.
Siskin – 2 on St. Martin’s.
