A selection from Monday’s log call:
Tawny Pipit – 1 Bryher.
Pectoral Sandpiper – 2 on the Great Pool, Tresco.
Buff-breasted Sandpiper – 1 briefly on the Great Pool, Tresco and what was probably the samebird was seen later on Porth Hellick Beach,
Rose-coloured Starling – A juvenile on St. Martin’s.
Spoonbill – 1 on Green Island, Samson.
Hobby – A juvenile over Port Hellick.
Red-breasted Flycatcher – 1 on Pool Road, Tresco.
Yellow-browed Warbler – 1 Holy Vale and 1by the Great Pool, Tresco.
Lapland Bunting – 1 Golf Course.
Wigeon – The first of the autumn were 2 on the Great Pool, Tresco.
Pintail – 2 females on Abbey Pool, Tresco.
Little Egret – 5 Tresco Channel and 2 Pendrathen.
Grey Plover – 1 Porthloo.
Whimbrel – 2 Porth Hellick.
Bar-tailed Godwit – 1 commuting between Porthloo and Porthcressa.
Mediterranean Gull – 3 Porthcressa and 2 on Abbey Pool, Tresco.
Yellow-legged Gull – 1 Porth Killier, St. Agnes and 1 Bryher.
Turtle Dove – 1 St. Agnes.
Kingfisher – 1 Lower Moors.
Merlin – 1 Golf Course and 1 Salakee.
Skylark – 1 on the Airfield.
Spotted Flycatcher – 5 on St. Mary’s and 1 on St. Agnes.
Redstart – 1 Bryher.
Whinchat – 2 Standing Stones Field, Lower Moors and 1Abbey Pool & 1 Carn Near, both Tresco.
Yellow Wagtail – 2 Lower Moors, 2 Pungies Lane and 1 Sunnyside.
White Wagtail – 2 Little Porth and 1 Old Town.
Siskin – 3 Garrison, 2 Longstone and 1 Sunnyside.