Monday (12/04)
Great White Egret – 1 on Bryher, present since at least Friday (photo)
Cattle Egret – 4 on Tresco
Coal Tit – 1 on Pool Road, Tresco. This is a scarce bird on Scilly (photo)
Hoopoe – 1 by Buzza Tower flew towards gardens on Church Road
Blue-headed Wagtail – 1 still in the cow field at Higher Moors
Grasshopper Warbler – 1 reeling between Porth Hellick House and the Higher Moors cow field, 1 Tresco
Brent Goose – 1 flying from St. Martin’s towards Tresco
Great Northern Diver – 1 in the Roads (photo)
Grey Plover – 1 Bryher (photo)
Whimbrel – 1 Little Bay, St. Martin’s
Purple Sandpiper – 11 Little Bay, St. Martin’s
Iceland Gull – 1 Porth Mellon
Merlin – 1 Kittydown
Jackdaw – 1 Tresco
Raven – 2 St. Martin’s, 1 over Hugh Town
Cetti’s Warbler – 1 calling near the Skate Park
Whitethroat – 1 Bryher
Yellow Wagtail – 1 still in the cow field at Higher Moors
Tree Pipit – 6 Perpitch, St. Martin’s
Siskin – 1 on a feeder in a garden on High Lanes
Tuesday (13/04)
Bee-eater – 1 at Porthloo flew towards the golf course
Cattle Egret – 4 north of Pool Road, Tresco
Hoopoe – 1 by the Telegraph Tower
Blue-headed Wagtail – 1 at Porth Hellick
Brent Goose – A Pale-bellied bird was off Bar Point
Shoveler – A pair on the Great Pool Tresco, 2 drakes and a female on Porth Hellick Pool
Pochard – 3 on the Abbey Pool and 1 on the Great Pool, Tresco
Tufted Duck – 1 Abbey Pool, Tresco
Cuckoo – 1 Kittydown, 1 St. Martin’s
Great Northern Diver – 1 off Pelistry looking towards St. Martin’s
Marsh Harrier – 1 over Porth Hellick Pool was a female (photo), so a different bird to the male last seen on Saturday (10/04)
Whimbrel – 1 flew over Hugh Town. 1 Porthloo
Purple Sandpiper – 15 Great Bay, St. Martin’s
Common Sandpiper – 3 on Simpson’s Field, Great Pool, Tresco
Green Sandpiper – 1 at the west end of the Great Pool, Tresco
Jack Snipe – 1 Porth Hellick
Iceland Gull – 2 Great Bay, St. Martin’s, probably the same 2 seen later at Porthloo
Puffin – 30+ Annet and 6 Mincarlo
Cetti’s Warbler – 2 in the Standing Stones Field at Lower Moors (photo) and another 2 at Porth Hellick
Grasshopper Warbler – 1 Higher Moors
Whitethroat – 1 Porth Hellick
Ring Ouzel – A male and female at Carn Morval, 1 briefly in a garden in High Lanes, 1 Pungies Lane. 4 0n St. Martin’s, including a singing male
Redwing – 1 on the Airfield
Black Redstart – 2 at the weather station, airport buildings
Wheatear – 40 on the Airfield
Yellow Wagtail – 2 at Porth Hellick
White Wagtail – 3 at Porth Hellick, 3 Porthloo
