Sunday (12/11)
Waxwing – 1 in a garden in Old Town.
Firecrest – 2 in Lower Moors at the Rosehill end.
Siberian Chiffchaff – 1 in Lower Moors at the Rosehill end.
Wigeon – 1 0n Shooters’ Pool.
Kingfisher – 1 in Old Town Bay.
Merlin – 1 over the Sunnyside Farm Trail.
Swallow – 2 late birds at Carn Gwaval.
Brambling – 1 at Longstone, 1 in the field on Telegraph Road, opposite the Trewince Turning and 2 on Pungies Lane.
Siskin – 2 flew over Lower Moors.
Monday (13/11)
Cape May Warbler – The first-winter female was still feeding in bushes and on rocks in Green Bay Beach, below the track to Veronica Farm, Bryher.
Waxwing – 1 was on Abbey Drive, Tresco and 1 at the north end of Watch Hill, Bryher.
Yellow-browed Warbler – 1still in bushes on Higher Moors just north of the road.
Swallow – 1 over Hugh Town.
Little Egret – 1 at Pelistry Bay and 1 at Porthloo.
Grey Plover – 1 on the beach at Green Bay, Bryher.
Whimbrel– 1 at Pelistry Bay
Merlin – 1 over Sunnyside Farm fields.
Grey Wagtail – 1 on Watermill Beach and 2 with chickens at Parting Carn.
Reed Bunting – 1 at the south end of the Dump Clump.
Tuesday (14/11)
Cape May Warbler – The first-winter female was still feeding in bushes and on rocks in Green Bay Beach, below the track to Veronica Farm, Bryher.
Bullfinch – 1 flew from Well Cover, Tresco. This is a scarce bird on Scilly.
Wigeon – 4 on the Great Pool, Tresco.
Pochard – 2 on Abbey Pool and 1 on the Great Pool, Tresco.
Jack Snipe – 1 Higher moors just north of the road.
Swallow – 1 at Little Porth.
Firecrest – 1 at Tremelethen Farm,
Great Spotted Woodpecker – 1 calling from Well Cover, Tresco.
Grey Wagtail – 1 at Little Porth and 1 at Higher Moors.
Wednesday (15/11)
Cape May Warbler – The first-winter female was still feeding in bushes and on rocks in Green Bay Beach, below the track to Veronica Farm, Bryher.
Surf Scoter – 1 in Great Bay, Bryher/
Short-eared Owl – 1 hunting over Carn Friars and Salakee Farm fields and 1 on St. Helen’s.
Spoonbill – 2 on Samson.
Little Egret – 2 on Bryher Pool and 1 Porthloo.
Golden Plover – 1 flew south over Bryher Campsite.
Waxwing – 4 on Timmy’s Hill, Bryher.
Ring Ouzel – A male on the path to Bryher Campsite.
Redwing – 100+ on Bryher.
Fieldfare – 6+ on Bryher.
Whinchat – A very late bird was in the field adjacent to the Mainland Marketing shed below the airport.
Swallow –3 flew south over the road at Higher Moors and 2 over Bryher Pool.
White Wagtail – 1 at Longstone.
Humpback Whale – 2 (a mother & calf?) near Spanish Ledge off Peninnis.
Thursday (16/11)
Cape May Warbler – The first-winter female was still feeding in bushes and on rocks along Green Bay Beach, Bryher.
Short-eared Owl – 1 hunting over Higher Moors and later 2 together hunting over the horse paddocks on Carn Friars Farm (photo).
Wigeon – A drake on the Great Pool, Tresco.
Pochard – A drake on the Great Pool, Tresco.
Jack Snipe – 2 in the Standing Stones Field.
Sanderling – 100+ on Porthloo Beach.
Bar-tailed Godwit – 2 on Porthloo Beach.
Merlin – 1 on Bryher.
Kingfisher – 1 Lower Moors Pool.
Siberian Chiffchaff – 1 near the Stephen Sussex hide at Lower Moors,
Black Redstart – 1 in the Chaplaincy area Church Road, Hugh Town.
Grey Wagtail – 1in the Standing Stones Field.
Fin Whale – 3 distant spouts seen from Giant’s Castle, were thought to be this species from the shape of the blow.
Friday (17/11)
Cape May Warbler – The first-winter female was still feeding in bushes and on rocks along Green Bay Beach, Bryher.
Marsh Harrier – 1 at Lawrance’s Bay, St. Martin’s.
Woodcock – 2 flushed from the path from Porth Hellick to Salakee.
Purple Sandpiper – 1 on Peninnis just west of Pulpit Rock.
Sanderling – 80+ on Porthloo Beach.
Dunlin – 4 on Porthloo Beach.
Swallow – 3 at Little Porth.
Siberian Chiffchaff – 1 still at Porth Hellick.
