Tuesday (19/10)
A wet and windy day, consequently there were less people in the field and less birds reported,
Spotted Redshank – 1 still on the Great Pool, Tresco.
Jack Snipe – 1 on Lower Moors Pool, 1 on Porth Hellick Pool and 1 on the Abbey Pool, Tresco.
Yellow-browed Warbler – 1 Carreg Dhu Gardens, 1 in the scrub near the Dump Clump and 1 on St. Agnes.
Siberian Chiffchaff – 1 still near Shooter’s Pool, Lower Moors.
Quail – 1 on the path near the football pitch on the Garrison.
Turtle Dove – 1 flew over Newford Duck Pond.
Pale-bellied Brent Goose –
Pink-footed Goose – 3 on Tresco, 2 still on the Great Pool and 1 in a field behind Gimble Porth.
Shoveler – 2 on the Great Pool, Tresco.
Sooty Shearwater – 6 flew past St. Agnes.
Golden Plover – 10 on the Golf Course.
Whimbrel – 10 roosting at Innisidgen.
Black-tailed godwit – 1 on the Great Pool, Tresco.
Mediterranean Gull – 12 on the Great Pool, Tresco.
Merlin – 1 flew over Town Beach and 1 was on Castle Down, Tresco.
Kingfisher – 1 Lower Moors.
Cetti’s Warbler – 1 singing at Porth Hellick.
Lesser Whitethroat – 1 near Grinlinton Farm House, St. Agnes.
Black Redstart – 1 near the Old Town Inn, 2 Partin Carn and 1 Old Grimsby, Tresco
Spotted Flycatcher – 1 in the Dump Clump.
Pied Flycatcher – 1 in the Dump Clump and 1 on St. Agnes.
Grey Wagtail – 1 still on the Great Pool, Tresco.
Brambling – 1 between Nowhere and the Old Town Church and 1 behind the cricket pitch on St. Martin’s.
Siskin – still reported across islands including 60 behind the cricket pitch on St. Martin’s (photo).
