Tuesday (06/10)
Little Bittern – A bird though to be this species flew across Old Town Bay, Least Bittern was not ruled out. Unfortunately, despite searches of all likely pools it could not be relocated.
Pectoral Sandpiper – 1 flew in and landed on Porth Hellick Pool
Brent Goose – 6 in Tresco Channel, 1 on the sea off Lower Town, St. Martin’s
Pink-footed Goose – 6 still at Four Lanes, 4 on Abbey Pool, Tresco
Wigeon – 2 Porth Hellick
Great Northern Diver – 3 still off Pelistry
Little Egret – 1 Old Town Bay
Sparrowhawk – 2 over Four Lanes
Golden Plover – 2 Castle Down, Tresco
American Golden Plover – 1 Castle Down, Tresco, t or another flew over Gimble Porth
Bar-tailed Godwit – 1 roosting on Taylor’s Island, Porthloo
Whimbrel – 4 Toll’s Island, 1 St. Martin’s
Jack Snipe – 2 on Porth Hellick Pool
Common Sandpiper – 1 Watermill Cove, 1 Old Town Bay
Mediterranean Gull – 1 Porthcressa
Kingfisher – 1 Old Town Bay
Wryneck – 1 on Gugh, 1 on Wingletang, St. Agnes, 1 near Anneka’s Quay, Bryher
Great Spotted Woodpecker –
Merlin – 1 over the junction of Telegraph Road and the top end of Porthloo Lane, 1 Peninnis, 1 Toll’s Island, 1 over Porth Cressa towards the Garrison, 1 east over Old Town Bay, 1 Gimble Porth Tresco
Red-backed Shrike – 1 still behind Longstone Lodge
Yellow-browed Warbler – 1 Watermill, 1 still Lower Broome, Garrison, 1 near the Stephen Sussex hide, Porth Hellick,1 Higher Moors Pumping Station, 1 Newford Duck Pond,1 still behind the Cricket Pitch, St. Martin’s, 1 seven Stones, St. Martins’
Garden Warbler – 1 in the fields behind Old Town Bay
Ring Ouzel – 1 on the west side of Peninnis Head
Spotted Flycatcher – 1 Holy Vale, 1 Middle Town, St. Martin’s
Pied Flycatcher – 2 Holy Vale
Red-breasted Flycatcher – 1 in Holy Vale
Whinchat – 1 at the junction of Telegraph Road and the top end of Porthloo Lane, 1 St. Agnes
Common Rosefinch – 1 Deep Point Quarry
Lesser Redpoll – 1 Little Arthur Farm, St. Martin’s
Crossbill – 3 Trenoweth Pines, 9 in the pines near the Stephen Sussex Hide, Porth Hellick
Siskin – 2 Carreg Dhu Gardens, 9 in Lawrence’s Bay fields, St. Martin’s
Lapland Bunting – 1 Castle Down, Tresco, 1 Piper’s hole Tresco
Snow Bunting – 1 near the lighthouse on Peninnis (photo), 1 on the beach west of the Heliport, Tresco
