Wednesday (06/08)
Melodious Warbler – 1 above Bant’s Carn.
Green Sandpiper – 1 over Longstone Terrace.
Mediterranean Gull – 1 at Higher Town Bay, St. Martin’s.
Wheatear – 1 at Blue Carn and 1 at Giants’ Castle,
Thursday (07/08)
Wilson’s Storm-petrel – 33 on an evening pelagic trip7.5 miles southeast of St. Mary’s.
European Storm-petrel – c150 on an evening pelagic trip7.5 miles southeast of St. Mary’s.
Cory’s Shearwater – 9 on an evening pelagic trip7.5 miles southeast of St. Mary’s.
Great Shearwater – 30 on an evening pelagic trip7.5 miles southeast of St. Mary’s.
Short-beaked Common Dolphin – 10 on an evening pelagic trip7.5 miles southeast of St. Mary’s.
Blue Shark – 2 on an evening pelagic trip7.5 miles southeast of St. Mary’s.
Friday (08/08)
Wilson’s Storm-petrel – 19 on a Birders’ Special evening pelagic trip 9 miles southwest of St. Mary’s.
European Storm-petrel – c150 on a Birders’ Special evening pelagic trip 9 miles southwest of St. Mary’s and 14 seen in Scilly waters from the Scillonian III on the morning crossing from Penzance to St. Mary’s.
Cory’s Shearwater – 10 on a Birders’ Special evening pelagic trip 9 miles southwest of St. Mary’s.
Great Shearwater – 50 on a Birders’ Special evening pelagic trip 9 miles southwest of St. Mary’s.
Sooty Shearwater – 6 on a Birders’ Special evening pelagic trip 9 miles southwest of St. Mary’s.
Long-tailed Skua – 2 adults (photo) on a Birders’ Special evening pelagic trip 9 miles southwest of St. Mary’s.
Great Skua – 1 seen in Scilly waters from the Scillonian III on the morning crossing from Penzance to St. Mary’s.
Artic Tern – 2 seen in Scilly waters from the Scillonian III on the morning crossing from Penzance to St. Mary’s.
Wood Sandpiper – 1 circling and calling over Abbey Pool, Tresco, before flying towards St. Mary’s.
Marsh Harrier – 1 flew low over Longstone early evening.
Short-beaked Common Dolphin – 10 on a Birders’ Special evening pelagic trip 9 miles southwest of St. Mary’s.
Blue Shark – 2 on a Birders’ Special evening pelagic trip 9 miles southwest of St. Mary’s.
Atlantic Bluefin Tuna – 5 leaping clear of the water seen in Scilly waters from the Scillonian III on the morning crossing from Penzance to St. Mary’s.
Saturday (09/08)
Wilson’s Storm-petrel – 42 on a Birders’ Special daytime pelagic trip 11 miles southeast of St. Mary’s.
European Storm-petrel – c200 on a Birders’ Special daytime pelagic trip 11 miles southeast of St. Mary’s.
Cory’s Shearwater – 8 on a Birders’ Special daytime pelagic trip 11 miles southeast of St. Mary’s.
Great Shearwater – 25 on a Birders’ Special daytime pelagic trip 11 miles southeast of St. Mary’s.
Sooty Shearwater – 6 on a Birders’ Special daytime pelagic trip 11 miles southeast of St. Mary’s.
Spotted Flycatcher – 1 at Longstone.
Short-beaked Common Dolphin – 20 on a Birders’ Special daytime pelagic trip 11 miles southeast of St. Mary’s.
Blue Shark – 8 on a Birders’ Special daytime pelagic trip 11 miles southeast of St. Mary’s.
Sunfish – 4 on a Birders’ Special daytime pelagic trip 11 miles southeast of St. Mary’s.
Sunday (10/08)
Wilson’s Storm-petrel – 15 on a Birders’ Special daytime pelagic trip 10 miles southwest of St. Mary’s.
European Storm-petrel – c150 on a Birders’ Special daytime pelagic trip 10 miles southwest of St. Mary’s and 3 in Scilly waters seen from the Scillonian III.
Cory’s Shearwater – 8 on a Birders’ Special daytime pelagic trip 10 miles southwest of St. Mary’s.
Great Shearwater – 5 on a Birders’ Special daytime pelagic trip 10 miles southwest of St. Mary’s.
Sooty Shearwater – 6 on a Birders’ Special daytime pelagic trip 10 miles southwest of St. Mary’s and 1 off Peninnis Head.
Common Tern – 25 on a Birders’ Special daytime pelagic trip 10 miles southwest of St. Mary’s.
Great Skua – 1 in Scilly waters seen from the Scillonian III.
Grey Phalarope – 1, the first of the year, on a Birders’ Special daytime pelagic trip 10 miles southwest of St. Mary’s.
Purple Sandpiper – 4 on Melledgen, Western Rocks.
Short-beaked Common Dolphin – 30 on a Birders’ Special daytime pelagic trip 10 miles southwest of St. Mary’s.
Monday (11/08)
Wilson’s Storm-petrel – 5 on a Birders’ Special evening pelagic trip 9nmiles southwest of St. Mary’s.
European Storm-petrel – 50 on a Birders’ Special evening pelagic trip 9nmiles southwest of St. Mary’s.
Cory’s Shearwater – 8 on a Birders’ Special evening pelagic trip 9nmiles southwest of St. Mary’s.
Great Shearwater – 45 on a Birders’ Special evening pelagic trip 9nmiles southwest of St. Mary’s.
Sooty Shearwater – 5 on a Birders’ Special evening pelagic trip 9nmiles southwest of St. Mary’s.
Manx Shearwater – c500 on a Birders’ Special evening pelagic trip 9nmiles southwest of St. Mary’s.
Great Skua – A ringed bird on a Birders’ Special evening pelagic trip 9nmiles southwest of St. Mary’s.
Common Tern – 25 on a Birders’ Special evening pelagic trip 9nmiles southwest of St. Mary’s.
Green Sandpiper – 1 on Porth Hellick Pool.
Common Sandpiper –1 Porth Hellick Beach.
Pied Flycatcher –1 in the Garrison pines, 1 on the Ropewalk, Porthloo, 2 in the fields above New Grimsby Quay. Tresco and 1 n Troy Town Lane, St. Agnes.
Short-beaked Common Dolphin – 20 on a Birders’ Special evening pelagic trip 9nmiles southwest of St. Mary’s.
Tuesday (12/08)
Melodious Warbler – 1 landed on the Scillonian III whilst it when it was west of the wolf Rock. i.e. in Scilly waters.
Wilson’s Storm-petrel – 10 on an evening birding/sharking fishing trip 7 miles southeast of St. Mary’s and 2 from the Scillonian III on the crossing from St. Mary’s to Penzance.
European Storm-petrel – 40 on an evening birding/sharking fishing trip 7 miles southeast of St. Mary’s and c20 from the Scillonian III on the crossing from St. Mary’s to Penzance.
Cory’s Shearwater – 1 on an evening birding/sharking fishing trip 7 miles southeast of St. Mary’s and 4 from the Scillonian III on the crossing from St. Mary’s to Penzance.
Great Shearwater – 10 on an evening birding/sharking fishing trip 7 miles southeast of St. Mary’s and 11 from the Scillonian III on the crossing from St. Mary’s to Penzance.
Sooty Shearwater – 2 on an evening birding/sharking fishing trip 7 miles southeast of St. Mary’s and 4 from the Scillonian III on the crossing from St. Mary’s to Penzance.
Common Tern – 25 on an evening birding/sharking fishing trip 7 miles southeast of St. Mary’s and 4 from the Scillonian III on the crossing from St. Mary’s to Penzance.
Yellow-legged Gull – a juvenile at Morning Point on the Garrison
Arctic Tern –1 on an evening birding/sharking fishing trip 7 miles southeast of St. Mary’s.
Arctic Skua –1 on an evening birding/sharking fishing trip 7 miles southeast of St. Mary’s.
Green Sandpiper – 1 on Porth Hellick Pool.
Common Sandpiper –1 Porth Hellick Beach and flew from Gugh to St. Agnes.
Whimbrel – 1 on St. Agnes.
Common Swift – 1 at Porth Hellick and 2 over Borough Farm,
Great Spotted Woodpecker – 1 at Borough Farm
Whinchat – 1 at Bant’s Carn.
Pied Flycatcher – 1 at Helvear, 1 at Porth Hellick, 1 at Borough Farm, 1 at the Porth Cressa Allotments and 1 in the Dead Pine Walk.
Short-beaked Common Dolphin – 6 on an evening birding/sharking fishing trip 7 miles southeast of St. Mary’s.
Blue Shark – An 8 ft,150 lb fish was caught, tagged and released on an evening birding/sharking fishing trip 7 miles southeast of St. Mary’s.