Friday (14/05)
Greylag Goose – 1 flew east over Hugh Town Harbour
Wigeon – A drake on Porth Hellick Pool
Swift – 1 over Porth Hellick
Cuckoo – 1 St. Martin’s Vineyard
Golden Plover – 1 on St. Martin’s
Whimbrel – 3 Porth Hellick Bay
Iceland Gull – 1 still at Porthloo, 1 on the beach below the Mermaid Carpark
Merlin – A female at the Daymark, St. Martin’s
Lesser Redpoll – 1 flew over Porth Mellon, 1 in fields above Ennor Close, Old Town
Saturday (15/05)
Wigeon – A drake was still on Porth Hellick Pool
Golden Plover – 4 in summer plumage in a field northeast of Higher Town, St. Martin’s
Whimbrel – 4 Lawrance’s Bay, and 4 Great Bay, St. Martin’s
Iceland Gull – 1 on Porthcressa and in the garden behind Star Castle, 1 Little Bay, St. Martin’s
White Wagtail – 1 Little Porth
Siskin – 1 flew east over the garden behind Star Castle
Sunday (16/05)
Great Northern Diver – 2 in Crow Sound seen from Bar Point
Whimbrel – 6 Bar Point
Iceland Gull – 1 on Taylor’s Island, Porthloo, 1 again in the garden behind Star Castle
Monday (17/05)
Garganey – 1 reported oat Higher Moors
Greylag Goose – 1 Tresco
Shoveler – A drake on Tresco
Wigeon – 1 Tresco
Pochard – 2 broods on Tresco
Tufted Duck – A pair on Tresco
Black-tailed Godwit – 1 in full summer plumage at Porth Hellick Pool
Iceland Gull – 1 on Taylor’s Island, Porthloo, 1 flew over Tregarthen’s Hotel
European Storm-petrel – One on the “Scilly Side” seen from the Scillonian III on the morning crossing from Penzance to St. Mary’s
Cetti’s Warbler – 1 at the Old Town end of lower Moors by the water treatment works
White Wagtail – 1 at Carn Friars
Tuesday (18/05)
Cuckoo – 1 heard from the coastal path between Watermill and Innisidgen
Golden Plover – 1 St. Agnes, a summer plumage bird on the airfield
Black-tailed Godwit – 1 on Periglis Beach, St. Agnes
Iceland Gull – 1 on the pool on St. Agnes , alter seen off Annet, a probable at Great Bay, St. Martin’s, 1 flew over Hugh Town Harbour
Cetti’s Warbler – 1 Porth Hellick
Yellow Wagtail – 1 on St. Agnes
Wednesday (19/05)
Tufted Duck – 1 on Porth Hellick Pool
Swift – 1 over Veronica Farm & Gweal Hill, Bryher, 2 over the south end of Tresco
Cuckoo – 1 calling on in the Hotel/Gweal Hill area, Bryher
Great Northern Diver – 7 south of Samson
Common Sandpiper – 1 St. Agnes
Iceland Gull – 1 flew over the Great Pool, Tresco
Cetti’s Warbler – 1 at Porth Hellick
Spotted Flycatcher – 1 behind Bryher Boatyard
Yellow Wagtail – A female at Simpson’s Field, Tresco. A male at Porth Hellick
Tree Pipit – 1 Peninnis
Lesser Redpoll – 1 in a field behind the dump on Bryher
Thursday (20/05)
Swift – 3 over the Garrison
Iceland Gull – 1 again in the garden behind Star Castle
European Storm-petrel – One seen about 10 minutes out from the Scillonian III on the return crossing from St. Mary’s to Penzance
Cetti’s Warbler – 1 Higher Moors, 1 Shooters’ Pool
Spotted Flycatcher – 1 on the Old Town end of the Peninnis Trail
Yellow Wagtail – 1 Porth Hellick