Tuesday (15/06)
EGYPTIAN VULTURE – There were several claims of it been seen on Tresco through a telescope from St. Mary’s. Despite several more claims, visiting birders on Tresco could not find it. There were 3 independent reports in the late afternoon on Mondayfrom non-birders between, all from Bryher, 1 from Tresco Channel, 1 near Anneka’s Quay and 1 (from a Bryher resident, with a good description) of it been sat on a fence post in Popplestone Fields
Yellow-legged Gull – A first-summer bird on Tresco
Hobby – 1 flew past the church in Hugh towards Porth Cressa
Wednesday (16/06)
Red-footed Falcon – 1 at the seaward end of airfield flew towards the turning circle (photos), then around Blue Carn, near Porth Minick, moving to the Golf Course in the evening
Siskin – 1 flew over Tresco
Thursday (17/06)
Red-footed Falcon – 1 still on the Golf Course early morning, it then moved back to the Blue Carn area near the airport and back to the Golf Course in the evening
Swift – 1 over the Golf Course
Non-bird news – The now famous “Wally the Walrus” paid a visit to Scilly (photo), it spent the evening in Porth Cressa, several times trying to climb aboard yachts to rest, it eventually haled out on rocks at Morning Point.
An Egyptian Vulture and a Walrus within 3 days or each other! Scilly is famed for “East meets West” but today it was “ North meets South”
Friday (18/06)Red-footed Falcon – 1 still on the Golf Course early morning in the Blue Carn area throughout the day
and back at the Golf Course in the evening
Hobby – 1 flew past Morning Point (photo)
Wally the Walrus was still in Porth Cressa Bay
Saturday (19/06)
Red-footed Falcon – It now seems to have a pattern of movement, on the Golf Course in the morning, in the Blue Carn area throughout the day and back at the Golf Course in the evening
Rose-coloured Starling – 1 in the Woolpack Accommodation area on the Garrison
Iceland Gull – 1 on the Golf Course
Whimbrel – 1 at Pendrathen
Wally the Walrus was in Crow sound between Pendrathen and Bar Point
Sunday (20/06)
Rose-coloured Starling – a first-winter male/female in the Woolpack Accommodation area on the Garrison and a second bird, an adult around the Old Town Church/ Carn Leh area.#
Iceland Gull – 1 in the garden behind Star Castle
Swift – 1 flew east over the Garrison
Wally the Walrus was in Crow Sound off Bar Point and was later on rocks at Wine Cove, St. Martin’s
