Whether close up on the Pittosporum or distant against the bracken, I could have watched the St Agnes Red-backed Shrike all day (and nearly did!) @ISBG_Scilly @scillyboating pic.twitter.com/EgSu2kZk40
— Jim Almond (@ShropsBirder) 9 October 2018
A selection from Tuesday’s log call:
Greenish Warbler – 1 still on St. Agnes.
Tawny Pipit – 1 Bryher.
Cattle Egret – 5 on Tresco.
Rose-coloured Starling – A juvenile on St. Martin’s.
Common Rosefinch – 1 High Lanes.
Barred Warbler – 1 Porth Hellick.
Red-backed Shrike – 1 St. Agnes.
Yellow-browed Warbler – 4 on St. Mary’s, 1 Tresco and 1 on St. Agnes.
Wryneck – 1 St, Agnes.
Firecrest – 1 Porth Hellick and 2 St. Agnes.
Spoonbill – 1 Green Island, Samson.
Sooty Shearwater – 1 past Horse Point, St. Agnes.
Black Redstart – 1 Porth Mellon, 1 Airfield, 1 Bryher and 1 St. Agnes.
Whooper Swan – 1 on the Abbey Pool, Tresco.
Brent Goose – 4 flew from St. Agnes towards Annet.
Pintail – 2 on the Abbey Pool, Tresco.
Little Egret – 6 Tresco Channel.
Whimbrel – 1 Porth Hellick Bay, 1 Bar and 1 St. Agnes.
Bar-tailed Godwit – 1 Porthcressa and 1 Annet.
Jack Snipe – 1 Porth Hellick.
Wood Sandpiper – 1 on the Great Pool, Tresco.
Mediterranean Gull – 5 in the Roads, 7 in Tresco Channel and 11 Porth Killier.
Great Skua – 5 past Horse Point, St. Agnes.
Turtle Dove – 1 Content.
Kingfisher – 1 Porthcressa, 1 Porth Hellick and 1 Lower Moors.
Merlin – A male and a female on St. Mary’s and 1 St. Agnes.
Skylark – 1 Bryher.
Garden Warbler – 1 St. Agnes.
Lesser Whitethroat – 1 Longstone.
Spotted Flycatcher – 1 St. Agnes and 2 Bryher.
Pied Flycatcher – 1 Longstone.
Redstart – 1 Porth Mellon and 3 St. Agnes.
Whinchat – 5 in the Standing Stones Field, Lower Moors, 1 Dump Clump, 1 Golf Course, 1 St. Agnes and 1 Gugh.
Yellow Wagtail – 3 Airfield.
White Wagtail – 12 Porth Mellon and 10 Golf Course.
Reed Bunting – 1 Shooters’ Pool and 3 in the Standing Stones Field, Lower Moors.