A selection from Monday’s log call:
Bobolink – 1 was heard in flight at Trenoweth could not be relocated.
Surf Scoter – 1 near Teän.
Cattle Egret – 5 Tresco.
Common Rosefinch – 1 by the dump and 1 Bryher.
Cetti’s Warbler – 1 Pelistry.
Nightingale – 1 on St. Martin’s.
Red-backed Shrike – 1 St. Agnes.
Wryneck – 1 Maypole.
Yellow-browed Warbler – 13 on St. Mary’s, 2 on St. Agnes and 3 on Tresco..
Firecrest – 1 Carreg Dhu Gardens.
Grey Phalarope – 4 on a pelagic trip.
Sooty Shearwater – 1 from the Scillonian III on the “Scilly side” on the crossing from Penzance to St. Mary’s.
Balearic Shearwater – 1 from the Scillonian III on the “Scilly side” on the crossing from Penzance to St. Mary’s.
Black Redstart – 18 on St. Mary’s, 3 on St. Martin’s and 3 on St. Agnes.
Whooper Swan – 1 on the Abbey Pool, Tresco.
Pintail – 2 Abbey Pool, Tresco.
Common Scoter – 3 near Teän.
Great Northern Diver – 1 near Cheese Rock, Tresco.
Little Egret – 3 Bryher, 2 Porthcressa, 1 Porth Hellick and 1 St. Agnes.
Whimbrel – 2 Porth Hellick.
Bar-tailed Godwit – 1 Porthloo and 3 on St. Martin’s.
Wood Sandpiper – 1 on the Great Pool, Tresco.
Mediterranean Gull – 3 Porthcressa and 4 Tresco.
Merlin – 2 or 3 around the islands.
Skylark – 13 St. Mary’s, 3 Tresco, 2 St. Martin’s and 8 from the Scillonian III on the “Scilly side” on the crossing from Penzance to St. Mary’s.
Garden Warbler – 1 Peninnis and 1 Porth Hellick..
Ring Ouzel – 1 Peninnis, 1 Pelistry, 1 Content and 1 Tresco.
Fieldfare – the first of the autumn were 1 at Tremelethen, 1 on Peninnis and 1 at Longstone.
Redwing- 2 Riding Stables, 3 Peninnis and 1 St. Agnes.
Spotted Flycatcher – 2 St. Martin’s and 1 Bryher.
Pied Flycatcher – 1 Trenoweth and 1 in the Parsonage Garden, St. Agnes.
Redstart – 3 on St. Mary’s, 1 on St. Agnes and 1 on St. Martin’s.
Whinchat – 2 Porth Hellick, 1 Porthloo Lane and 2 Bryher.
Yellow Wagtail – 1 Porthcressa and an eastern/ southern type bird in the Riding Stable.
White Wagtail – 1 Riding Stables, 1 Porth Mellon, 1 Peninnis, 2 Bryher.
Brambling – 1 Peninnis.
Lesser Redpoll – 2 on St. Martin’s.
Siskin – 1 Trenoweth.
Reed Bunting – 3 Standing Stones Field, Lower Moors, 1 Porth Hellick, 1 Tresco,1 Bryher and 2 St. Agnes.