Friday (09/10)
Red-eyed Vireo – 1 still in the pines above Middle Town, St. Martin’s
Brent Goose – 8 in Tresco Channel
Greylag Goose – 2 seen around St. Mary’s ending up at Four Lanes
Pink-footed Goose – 7 seen around St. Mary’s ending up at Four Lanes, 4 Appletree Point, Tresco then moving to the Abbey Pool
Wigeon – 1 Porth Hellick Pool
Red-throated Diver – 1 in St. Mary’s Sound
Spoonbill – 1 on Samson
Sparrowhawk – 1 Tresco
Golden Plover – 3 on Castle Down, Tresco
American Golden Plover – 1 on Castle Down, Tresco
Bar-tailed Godwit – 1 Porthloo
Pectoral Sandpiper – 1 flushed from Lower Moors and it or another was seen Porth Hellick Pool. 1 was seen and photographed on the airfield just before dusk
Jack Snipe – 1 Porth Hellick Pool
Iceland Gull – 1 flew west across Porth Cressa
Kingfisher – 1 Old Town Bay, 1 Porth Hellick, 1 Porth Cressa
Wryneck – 1 in Deep Point Quarry
Great Spotted Woodpecker – 1 Holy Vale, 1 on Tresco
Merlin – 1 Castle Down, Tresco
Red-backed Shrike – 1 still behind Longstone Lodge
Chough – 1 briefly at Morning Point Battery on the Garrison, a true Scilly rarity
Hooded Crow – 1 in a field above New Grimsby
Coal Tit – 1in the pines at Borough Farm, Tresco, 1 in the Porth Hellick Pines (this is a scarce bird on Scilly)
Skylark – 1 Peninnis, 1 Pelistry
Cetti’s Warbler – 1 Porth Hellick
Yellow-browed Warbler – 1 Old Town Churchyard, 1 Carn Gwaval, 1 Lower Moors, 1 Carreg Dhu Gardens, 1 on Telegraph Road between Rosehill and the stat of Sunnyside Trail, 1 Nowhere, 1 Shooters’ Pool, 1 in the Standing Stones Field, Lower Moors, 1 Higher Moors,1 between the hides on Pool Road, Tresco, 1 at the far end of the Great Pool, Tresco, 1 in the elms behind the cricket pitch on St. Martin’s, 1 Little Arthur Farm, St. Martin’s
Barred Warbler – 1 on the coastal path between Watermill and Pelistry
Lesser Whitethroat – The Blythi type was still in the sycamores by the Garrison Arch, 1 between the hides at Porth Hellick
Firecrest – 2 Abbey crossroads, Tresco
Spotted Flycatcher – 1 Holy Vale
Nightingale – 1 still on the bank of the Dump
Pied Flycatcher – 1 Holy Vale, 1 in the coppice between Higher Moors Pumping Station and Carn Friars Farm
Black Redstart – 1 in gardens opposite Porthloo Boatyard
Redstart – A male at Porth Minnick
Whinchat – 1 in the field at the southern entrance to Holy Vale, at 2 Little Arthur Farm, St. Martin’s
Water Pipit – A “probable” on the Garrison football pitch
Common Rosefinch – 1 on Gugh, 1 St. Martin’s
Lesser Redpoll – 1 in the gardens of Pilot’s Retreat, Hugh Town
Siskin – 1 Pelistry
Reed Bunting – 1 still in the bracken between Porth Hellick Beach & Camel Rock
Lapland Bunting – 2 on Castle Down, Tresco
Snow Bunting – 1 on Castle Down, Tresco
