A selection from Saturday’s log call:
Tawny Pipit – 1 Bryher.
Wilson’s Snipe – A possible in Lower Moors.
Buff-breasted Sandpiper – 1 on the airfield.
Cattle Egret – 5 on the Great Pool, Tresco and 1 seen at several locations on St. Mary’s.
Rose-coloured Starling – 2 juveniles on St. Martin’s.
Barred Warbler – 1 Porth Hellick.
Red-backed Shrike – 1 St. Agnes.
Yellow-browed Warbler – 2 Porth Hellick and 1 Lower Moors.
Wryneck – 1 Carn Gwaval.
Black Redstart – 1 Morning Point and 1 St. Martin’s.
Whooper Swan – 1 on the Abbey Pool, Tresco.
Pintail – 2 on the Abbey Pool, Tresco.
Golden Plover – 3 on the airfield and 2 on the Garrison.
Grey Plover – 1 Porthloo.
Whimbrel – 1 Porthloo and 5 Porth Hellick.
Bar-tailed Godwit – 1 Porthcressa.
Wood Sandpiper – 1 on the Great Pool, Tresco.
Mediterranean Gull – 4 Porthcressa and 1 off Morning Pont, the Garrison.
Arctic Tern – 1 in Great Bay, St. Martin’s.
Arctic Skua – 4 past Shipman Head, Bryher and 1 past the Daymark, St. Martin’s.
Turtle Dove – 1 Peninnis and 1 Bryher.
Merlin – 1 Buzza.
Skylark – 2 Airfield, 2 Peninnis and 1on the Garrison.
Lesser Whitethroat – 1 Longstone.
Ring Ouzel – The first of the autumn was on Bryher.
Spotted Flycatcher – 6 on St. Mary’s.
Pied Flycatcher – 1 Carn Friars.
Redstart – 1 Morning Point and 1 St. Martin’s..
Whinchat – 7 Standing Stones Field, Lower Moors, 1 Peninnis, 1 Dump Clump and 2 Airfield.
Yellow Wagtail – 1 Tresco.
White Wagtail – 2 Old Town, 1 Airfield and 1 Porthloo.
Siskin – 1 Holy Vale.
Reed Bunting – 1 Peninnis, 1 Airfield and 1 Lower Moors.