Monday (08/09)
Buff-breasted Sandpiper – 1 still on the Airfield.
Glossy Ibis – 2 on the Great Pool, Tresco.
Pectoral Sandpiper – 1 still on Porth Hellick Pool and a second at Bathinghouse Porth, Tresco.
Cattle Egret – A juvenile on Tresco.
Hoopoe – 1 in the field west of Longstone Cottage.
Wilson’s Storm-petrel – 5 on an evening Pelagic trip 9 miles northeast of St. Mary’s.
European Storm-petrel – 49 on an evening Pelagic trip 9 miles northeast of St. Mary’s.
Cory’s Shearwater – 130 on an evening Pelagic trip 9 miles northeast of St. Mary’s and 30 past Deep Point 06:30-07:30.
Great Shearwater – 30 on an evening Pelagic trip 9 miles northeast of St. Mary’s.
Sabine Gull – 2 on an evening Pelagic trip 9 miles northeast of St. Mary’s.
Dotterel – 1 still on the airfield.
Brent Goose – 2 flew over Peninnis.
Curlew Sandpiper – 1 on the west end of the Great Pool, Tresco.
Black-tailed Godwit – 1 on the Great Pool and 2 Abbey Pool, Tresco.
Marsh Harrier – 1 hunting over Annet.
Wryneck – 1 in the quarry at Porth Wreck and 1 on the perimeter fence of the airfield below the eastern runway.
Turtle Dove – 1 in the pig field on Peninnis.
Spotted Flycatcher – 2 by Shooters’ Pool, Lower Moors, 1 in Sunnyside Fields, 2 Carn Gwaval, 3 in the Community Orchard at Trenoweth, 3 on St. Agnes and “several” at the top of Sandy Lane, St. Martin’s.
Pied Flycatcher – 3 in Sunnyside Fields and 3 on St. Agnes.
Whinchat – 1 at the north end of the airfield,
Yellow Wagtail – 3 at Old Grimsby, Tresco.
Short-beaked Common Dolphin – 20 on an evening Pelagic trip 9 miles northeast of St. Mary’s.
Atlantic Bluefin Tuna – 10 on an evening Pelagic trip 9 miles northeast of St. Mary’s.
Tuesday (09/09)
Glossy Ibis – 1+ still moving around St. Mary’s.
Hoopoe – 1 still in the field west of Longstone Cottage.
Cory’s Shearwater – a “light passage”, south pat Giant’s Castle mid-afternoon.
Dotterel – 2 near the Daymark, St. Martin’s.
Jack Snipe – 1 on Lower Moors Pool.
Kingfisher – 1 Lower Moors and 1 Old Town Bay.
Spotted Flycatcher – 1 in Old Town Churchyard and 1 Holy Vale.
Pied Flycatcher– 2 in the Dump Clump. 3 in the vicinity of Shooters’ Pool, 2 Porthloo Lane and 1 in bushes at Carn Leh, Old Town Bay and 2 in Old Town Churchyard
Wednesday (10/09)
Black-headed Bunting – A first-winter male was at Stinky Porth, Bryher (photo). This is the 14th record for Scilly, the last one was in May 2022.
Buff-breasted Sandpiper – 1 still on the Airfield.
Dotterel – 1 still on the Airfield.
Ruff – 1 flew over Cove Vean, St. Agnes.
Whimbrel – 1 Green Bay, Bryher.
Cory’s Shearwater – 10 lingering of the north end of St. Martin’s.
Hoopoe – 1 still in the field west of Longstone Cottage.
Wryneck – 1 on a field wall along King Edward’s Road, Peninnis and 1 at Browarth, St. Agnes.
Spotted Flycatcher – 1 Holy Vale.
Pied Flycatcher – 2 Carn Leh, 1 Holy Vale, 1 Content, 2 in St. Martin’s Vineyard and 1 in the elms by the cricket pitch.
Common Redstart – 1 in a field along King Edward’s Road, Peninnis.
Thursday (11/09)
Pectoral Sandpiper – 1 at Porth Hellick in the evening.
Wilson’s Storm-petrel – 3 on an evening pelagic trip 9 miles northeast of St. Mary’s.
European Storm Petrel – 80 on an evening pelagic trip 9 miles northeast of St. Mary’s.
Cory’s Shearwater – 300 on an evening pelagic trip 9 miles northeast of St. Mary’s, 50 circling of Horse Point, St. Agnes and 100 past Deep Point in the evening.
Great Shearwater – 150 on an evening pelagic trip 9 miles northeast of St. Mary’s.
Sooty Shearwater – 3 on an evening pelagic trip 9 miles northeast of St. Mary’s.
Great Skua – 1 on an evening pelagic trip 9 miles northeast of St. Mary’s and 1 west past Horse Point. St. Agnes.
Grey Phalarope – 1 on an evening pelagic trip 9 miles northeast of St. Mary’s.
Dotterel – 2 still near the Daymark, St, Martin’s.
Osprey – 1 flew low over Longstone.
Wryneck – 1 still at Deep Point, 1at Browarth, St. Agnes and 1 on Tresco.
Hoopoe – 1 still in the field west of Longstone Cottage.
Grey Phalarope – 1 flew towards the southern end of Tresco.
Lapland Bunting – 1 calling at Popplestone Bay, Bryher.
Yellow-legged Gull – 1 on Porthloo Beach.
Mediterranean Gull – 40 in Tresco Channel.
Bar-tailed Godwit – 5 at Stinky Porth, Bryher.
Whimbrel – 2 on Porthloo Beach.
Spotted Flycatcher – 2 Rosehill, 1 Lower Moors, 1 in bushes near Church Quay, Bryher and 1 on Racket Town Lane, Bryher.
Pied Flycatcher – 1 on rocks west of Tregarthen’s Hotel, 1 at Trenoweth and 2 in Old Town Churchyard.
Grey Wagtail – 1 at Carn Leh.
Friday (12/09)
Bluethroat – 1 briefly in Lower Moors early morning.
Cattle Egret – 1 at Old Grimsby, Tresco.
Wryneck – 1 in scrub near Giant’s Castle, 1 Porth Wreck, 1 Sallyport, 1 Standing Stones Field, 1 Curchtown Farm, St. Martin’s and 1 at Browarth, St Agnes.
Grey Phalarope – 1 on the sea below Mermaid Carpark and 2 Periglis, St. Agnes.
Brent Goose – 2 near Samson.
Knot – 4 Periglis, St. Agnes.
Ruff – 1 on Abbey Pool, Tresco.
Bar-tailed Godwit – 2 at Stinky Porth, Bryher
Mediterranean Gull – 3 Cook’s Porth, Bryher.
Spotted Flycatcher – 1 Carn Leh, 1 Sallyport, 1 Borough Farm. Tresco and 1 by the tennis court on Bryher.
Pied Flycatcher – 1 Carn Leh, 1 Kittydown, 1 Port Cressa, 2 Trenoweth, 2 Shooters’ Pool and 5 on Tresco.
Whinchat – 1 in a field adjacent to the Standing Stones Field.
