Sunday (23/04)

Night Heron – 1 flushed from the Rosehill end of Lower Moors and flew to the south end.

Cattle Egret – 4 at Parting Carn.

Woodchat Shrike – 1 still below the airport on Salakee Down and 1 still on Gugh.

Pintail – 2 drakes on the Great Pool, Tresco.

Green Sandpiper – 1 on the pool on St. Agnes.

Bar-tailed Godwit – 6 at Porthloo.

Whimbrel – 1 at Porthloo.

Common Buzzard – 1 over Longstone.

Merlin –1 flying north over Castle Down, Tresco.

Swift – 1 Porth Hellick, 1 at Morning Point on the Garrison and 1 Parting Carn.

Cuckoo –1 on Gugh.

Rook – 1 still on the Golf Course

Reed Warbler – 5 Porth Hellick.

Sedge Warbler – 1 Porth Hellick.

Ring Ouzel – 3 on the Golf Course.

Whinchat – A female at the Steval on the Garrison.

Common Redstart – 1 in the Standing Stones Field, Lower Moors.

Pied Flycatcher – 2 on Bryher.

Tree Pipit – 4 at Maypole and 2 Porth Hellick House

Yellow Wagtail – 4 in the Parting Carn cattle field.

Monday (24/04)

Woodchat Shrike – 1 still below the airport on Salakee Down.

Dotterel – 1 still on Castle Down, Tresco (photo).

Cattle Egret – 2 at Parting Carn.

Common Sandpiper – 1 in Old Town Bay.

Shoveler – 2 drakes on the Great Pool, Tresco.

Wigeon – A male on the Great Pool, Tresco.

Pintail – A drake on the Great Pool, Tresco.

Rook – 1 still on the Golf Course

Firecrest – 1 on the Garrison by the football pitch.

Common Whitethroat – 2 on Tresco.

Ring Ouzel – 1 in the pines behind Bryher Campsite.

Black Redstart – 1 on Porth Cressa Beach.

Yellow Wagtail –1 still in the Parting Carn cattle field (photo).

Tuesday (25/04)

Red-rumped Swallow – 1 flew over White Island to St. Martin’s.

Woodchat Shrike – 1 still on Gugh.

Cattle Egret – 2 still at Parting Carn and theses or 2 others at Trewince.

Shoveler – 2 on the Great Pool, Tresco.

Wigeon – 4 on the Great Pool, Tresco.

Great Northern Diver – A summer-plumage bird near Perconger, St. Agnes and 1 off Rat Island.

Golden Plover – 1 in a field on the west side of Peninnis and 1 over fields south of Bull’s Porth, St. Martin’s.

Black-tailed Godwit – 2 flew past Porth Killier, St. Agnes and these or another 2 later at Porthloo.

Bar-tailed Godwit – 3 at Porthloo.

Merlin – 1 above Middle Town, St. Martin’s.

Ring Ouzel – 1 on the Golf Course.

Pied Flycatcher – 1 in the garden of Carn Wethers, Green Lane.

Common Redstart – 1 in a garden on Launceston Close, Old Town.

Yellow Wagtail – 1 still at the Parting Carn,

Wednesday (26/04)

Short-toed Lark – 1 at the south end of King Edward’s Lane, Peninnis.

Woodchat Shrike – 1 still on the edge of the airfield above Salakee Down and 1 still on Gugh.

Hawfinch – 1 on Samson Hill, Bryher.

Wood Warbler – 1 near Apple Tree Glade, Bryher.

Cattle Egret – 2 in a field above New Grimsby boatyard 

Grasshopper Warbler – 1 reeling in Rosehill Gardens and 1 reeling near Pelistry Riding Stables.

Tufted duck – A drake on S. Agnes Pool.

Golden Plover – 1 still in a field on the western side of Peninnis.

Common Sandpiper – 1 on Bryher and 1 at Pendrathen.

Black-tailed Godwit – 1 at Porth Killier, St. Agnes.

Bar-tailed Godwit – 3 at Porthloo.

Whimbrel – 11 at Pendrathen, 1 on the Golf Course and 1 Porth Mellon.

Common Buzzard – 1 flew over Parting Carn. 

Great Spotted Woodpecker – 1 at Longstone and then flew towards Sandy Lane.

Cetti’s Warbler – 1 in Lower Moors.

Garden Warbler – 1 at Borough Farm, St. Mary’s.

Common Whitethroat – 1 at Carn Friars, 1 at Borough Farm, St. Mary’s and 10 on Bryher.

Ring Ouzel – 1 on the Golf Course and 1 in Bryher Campsite.

Whinchat – A pair in the sedge around St. Agnes Pool.

Tree Pipit – 2 on Bryher and 1 in fields behind Carreg Dhu.

Yellow Wagtail – 1 on the Golf Course and 1 on Bryher.

(c) Will Wagstaff
(c) Martin Goodey
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