Thursday (22/04)
Bee-eater – 1 still in the Carn Friars/Normandy area
Cattle Egret – 3+ still on Tresco
Greylag Goose – 1 in a field on Peninnis that also visited Lower Moors Pool
Shoveler – 1 Porth Hellick Pool
Swift – 1 over Old Town was the first of the year
Black-throated Diver – 1 in Bull’s Porth St.Martin’s
Black-tailed Godwit – 2 on the Lower Moors Pool
Iceland Gull – 1 Porthloo, 1, Mount Flagon, 1 Abbey Pool, Tresco, 1 Higher Town, St. Martin’s
Skylark – 1 behind the Fire Station on St. Martin’s
Tree Pipit – 1 Garrison Campsite, 2 on Bryher
Siskin – 1 on Bryher
Friday (23/04)
Bee-eater – 1 Appletree Road, Tresco was probably the bird that has been on St. Mary’s
Woodchat Shrike – 1 Dolphin Town, Tresco
Hoopoe – 1 Tremelethen and later on the lawn of Porth Hellick House
Cattle Egret – 4 on Tresco
Hawfinch – 1 in a Field at bottom of Rocky Hills next to Rosehill Memorial Garden
Turtle Dove – 1 in the pig field on the Garrison
Greylag Goose – 1 still in a field on Peninnis
Pintail – 1 on the Great Pool, Tresco
Pochard – 3 Tresco
Swift – An obvious arrival with up to 20 reported around St. Mary’s, 2 New Grimsby, 2 Tresco, 1 Bryher
Cuckoo – 1 calling Holy Vale
Great Northern Diver – 2 off the east side of Tresco
Little Egret – 2 Bryher, 1 Perpitch, St. Martin’s
Marsh Harrier – A cream-crown over Lower Moors
Grey Plover – 1 Bryher
Whimbrel – 8 Pendrathen, 3 Old Town Bay, 25 Appletree Bay, Tresco, 9 Lawrance’s Bay, St. Martin’s, 7 Bryher
Bar-tailed Godwit – 11 Lawrance’s Bay, 1 Par Beach, St. Martin’s, 2 Bryher, 1 Tresco
Common Sandpiper – 1 Lower Moors, 1 Bryher
Iceland Gull – 2 Porthloo, 1 Newford Duck Pond, 1 Higher Town Quay, St. Martin’s
Hobby – The first of the year was 1 over Content
Jackdaw – 2 Dolphin Town, Tresco, 2 Little Arthur Farm, St. Martin’
Skylark – 2 behind the Fire Station, St. Martin’s
Cetti’s Warbler – 2 around the Standing Stones Field
Grasshopper Warbler – 1 Bryher
Ring Ouzel – A female at Borough Farm, Tresco
Yellow Wagtail – 2 Bryher, 2 Tresco, 1 over Lower Moors
Tree Pipit – 7 Tresco, 1 on the Garrison