Monday (20/10)
American Pipit – 1 still on the airfield.
Great White Egret – 1 still in Old Town Bay.
Little Egret – 9 Porthloo.
Shoveler – A pair on the Great Pool, Tresco.
Common Scoter – 1 on the sera below Tregarthen’s Hotel.
Jack Snipe – 2 on Porth Hellick Pool, 1 on Porth Hellick Loop and 1 on Lower Moors Pool.
Knot – 1 still on Porthloo Beach.
Whimbrel – 5 at Innisidgen.
Merlin – 1 Pelistry.
Kingfisher – 1 Porth Hellick Pool. 1 in Town Bay, 1 Porth Cressa and 1 Old Town Bay.
Great Spotted Woodpecker – 1 heard calling at Porth Hellick.
Skylark – 4 on the airfield and 4 Pelistry.
Yellow Browed Warbler – 1 in the Mount Todden Pines, 1 Higher Moors by the road, 1 Shooters’ Pool, 1 on the path between the school and the Dump Clump, 1 Newford Duck Pond, 1 Trenoweth and 1 Pool Road, Tresco.
Firecrest – 9 on St. Mary’s and 2 on Tresco.
Ring Ouzel – 1 in a ploughed field on Airport Road (photo).
Spotted Flycatcher – 1 still in Old Town Churchyard and 1 in the Dump Clump.
Black Redstart – 28+ on St. Mary’s.
Brambling – 1+ still Porth Hellick Beach.
Tuesday (21/10)
Eye-browed Thrush – 1 was found at 09:20 in the Porthloo duck Pond area, where is spent about an hour before it was chased off by a Blackbird (photos). This was the 8th record for Scilly and the first since 1993.
Little Bunting – 1 in the field by the path from Telegraph/Pungies Lane corner to the Golf Course.
Red-backed Shrike – 1 in a field behind the pumping station on Porthloo Lane.
Great White Egret – 1 on Tresco and what was probably a different bird on St. Mary’s.
Cattle Egret – 1 with cattle on Pool Road, Tresco.
Whooper Swan – 6 flew over Watermill, then over St. Martin’s and the over St. Agnes.
Common Scoter – 1 on the sea, seen from Tregarthen’s carpark.
Great Shearwater – c70 in Scilly waters, seen from the Scillonian III on the trip from St. Mary’s to Penzance.
Sooty Shearwater – 1 in Scilly waters, seen from the Scillonian III on the trip from St. Mary’s to Penzance.
Manx Shearwater – 4 in Scilly waters, seen from the Scillonian III on the trip from St. Mary’s to Penzance.
Mediterranean Gull – 38 in Tresco Channel.
Puffin – 4 in Scilly waters, seen from the Scillonian III on the trip from St. Mary’s to Penzance.
Lapwing – 1 on Tresco Heliport.
Turtle Dove – 1 still on Tresco
Wryneck – 1 on the coastal path on the west side of Peninnis.
Yellow-browed Warbler – c5 on St. Mary’s
Firecrest – c15 on St. Mary’s.
Ring Ouzel – 1 still in a ploughed field on the Airport approach road.
Spotted Flycatcher – 1 still in Old Town Churchyard.
Black Redstart – c20 on St. Mary’s.
Siskin – 2 on the Sunnyside Farm Trail.
Brambling – 1 still in the Standing Stones Field.
Lapland Bunting – 1 flew over Hugh Town calling at 23:14.
Snow Bunting – 2 near the Daymark, St. Martin’s.
Wednesday (22/10)
Eye-browed Thrush – 1 was still showing sporadically in the area around Porthloo Duck Pond.
Buff-bellied Pipit – 1 in a field west of Longstone Cottage.
Wigeon – 5 on the Great Pool, Tresco.
Shoveler – 2 on the Great Pool, Tresco.
Pintail – 1 on Abbey Pool, Tresco.
Pochard – 1 on the Great Pool and 5 on Abbey Pool, Tresco.
Common Scoter – 1 still on the sea off Tregarthen’s Car Park and 1 in Pentle Bay.
Great White Egret – 1 flew over Porthloo and Porth Mellon.
Spoonbill – 1 on Samson.
Great Shearwater – 3000- 5000! on a pelagic trip 6miles southwest of Bishop’s Rock.
Sooty Shearwater – 300! on a pelagic trip 6miles southwest of Bishop’s Rock.
Manx Shearwater – 100 on a pelagic trip 6miles southwest of Bishop’s Rock.
European-storm Petrel – 4 on a pelagic trip 6miles southwest of Bishop’s Rock.
Yellow-legged Gull – 3 on a pelagic trip 6miles southwest of Bishop’s Rock.
Arctic Tern – 1 on a pelagic trip 6miles southwest of Bishop’s Rock.
Great Skua – 6 on a pelagic trip 6miles southwest of Bishop’s Rock. 1 of the birds had an orange ring (photo) and is thought to have been ringed on Orkney.
Arctic Skua – 1 on a pelagic trip 6miles southwest of Bishop’s Rock.
Puffin – 4 on a pelagic trip 6miles southwest of Bishop’s Rock.
Golden Plover – 1on Back Lane, Tresco.
Jack Snipe – 1 on Porth Hellick Pool and 1 on Lower Moors Pool.
Common Sandpiper – 1 on Pelistry Beach.
Bar-tailed Godwit – 2 on South Beach, Tresco.
Whimbrel – 4 on South Beach, Tresco and 1 flew over Hugh Town.
Merlin – 1 flew over Peninnis.
Kingfisher – 2 Porth Cressa, 1 Porthloo and 1 flew from Lower Moors towards Old Town.
Wryneck – 1 on the coastal path on the west side of Peninnis and 1 in a field at Maypole Triangle.
Skylark – 11 on Tresco and 1 on St. Martin’s.
Yellow-browed Warbler – 1 in fields on Porthloo Farm
Lesser Whitethroat– 1 near the ISBG hide in Lower Moors.
Firecrest – 3 trapped and ringed at Porth Hellick Ringing Station, 2 Porthloo and c15 on Tresco.
Ring Ouzel – 1 on Gweal Hill, Bryher.
Black Redstart – on Porthloo Beach and 1 Shark’s Pit.
Whinchat – 1 on Porth Hellick Beach.
Tree Pipit – 1 still in the horse paddock west of Bryher Campsite.
Yellow Wagtail – 1 on the beach at Shark’s Pit.
Brambling – 1 at rocky Hills Chalets.
Siskin – 19 Tresco.
Redpoll – 3 between the Great Pool and Stinky Porth Bryher and 3 over Pool Road.
Snow Bunting – 2 still at the Daymark, St. Martin’s.
Atlantic Bluefin Tuna – 10 on a pelagic trip 6miles southwest of Bishop’s Rock.
