Saturday (31/10)
Lesser Yellowlegs – 1 still on the Abbey Pool, Tresco
Great White Egret – 1 on St. Martins
Cattle Egret – 9 Tresco, 2 on St. Martins and flocks of 8, 5 and perhaps another 4 on St. Mary’s, so 13-17, giving an islands total of 24 to 28, a record number for Scilly, the highest previously was 9.
Glossy Ibis – 1 in the pig field at Parting Carn also seen briefly at Salakee Farm
Short-toed Lark – 1 in Peninnis fields
Woodlark – 1 flew west over the school to Peninnis
Little Bunting – 1 in a field just north of Old Grimsby, Tresco
Greylag Goose – 1 still in the field opposite the lane to Carn Vean
White-fronted Goose – 1 still in the field opposite the lane to Carn Vean
Great Northern Diver – 4 on the inter-islands boat trip
Spoonbill – 1 Samson
Little Egret – 1 Old Town Bay, 4 Abbey Pool, Tresco, 1 St. Martin’s
Whimbrel – 1 Taylor’s Island Porthloo
Purple Sandpiper – 1 on the inter-islands boat trip
Woodcock – 1 flushed in Lower Moors
Mediterranean Gull – 3 Porth Cressa, 8 Pendrethen
Glaucous Gull – 1 Porthloo
Glaucous/Herring Gull hybrid – 1 Porthloo
Yellow-legged Gull – 1 Porthloo–
Hooded Crow – 1 in a field behind the cricket pitch on Tresco
Skylark – 10 in Peninnis fields
Yellow-browed Warbler – 5 on St. Mary’s
Nightingale – 1 still showing very well at the west end of Little Porth
Black Redstart – St. Mary’s – 1 Holy Vale, 1 New Grimsby, Tresco
Redstart – 1 still on the edge of Salakee Wood
Brambling – 1 in a Chaffinch flock in afield above Pelistry Beach
Snow Bunting – 3 Daymark/Chapel Down, St. Martin’s