Wednesday (24/08)
Pectoral Sandpiper – The first of the autumn was 1 seen from the Swarovski Hide on the Great Pool, Tresco.
Red-backed Shrike – 1 in the hedge of a field on the other side the Pool Road opposite the track to Swarovski Hide, Tresco.
Black-tailed Godwit – 14 on Abbey Pool, Tresco.
Wood Sandpiper – 2 on Abbey Pool and 2 on the Great Pool, Tresco.
Green Sandpiper – 2 on Porth Hellick Pool and 3 on the Great Pool, Tresco.
Common Sandpiper – 3 on Porth Hellick Pool and 1 on the big Pool, St. Agnes.
Water Rail – A juvenile on Porth Hellick Pool and 1 on the big Pool, St. Agnes.
Kingfisher – 1 on Porth Hellick Pool.
Pied Flycatcher – 1 in the Parsonage Garden, St. Agnes.
Spotted Flycatcher – 1 in the Parsonage Garden, St. Agnes and 1 on Pool Road, Tresco.
Thursday (25/08)
Pectoral Sandpiper – 1 still on the Great Pool, Tresco.
Hoopoe – 1 in a field at Telegraph.
Red-backed Shrike – 1 still on the Great Pool, Tresco in a hedge below Racket Town.
Dotterel – 1 circling and calling over Longstone at 22:20.
Seen on the evening sharking/birding trip again 3 miles west of Bishop Rock where: 12 European Storm-petrel, 58 Cory’s Shearwater, 11 Great Shearwater, a Balearic Shearwater, 200 Manx Shearwater, a Sabine’s Gull 2 Great Skua , a Grey Phalarope, 25 Short-beaked Dolphin, an Ocean Sunfish and a Blue Shark.
Black-tailed Godwit – 11 on the Abbey Pool, Tresco.
Wood Sandpiper – 3 on the Great Pool, Tresco.
Green Sandpiper – 5 on the Great Pool, Tresco.
Common Sandpiper – 4 on the Abbey Pool, Tresco.
Great Spotted Woodpecker– 1 at Porth Hellick.
Wood Warbler – 1 in the pines at Mount Todden.
Whitethroat – 3 in the Telegraph area.
Spotted Flycatcher – 4 in the Telegraph area.
Friday (26/08)
The first evening trip of the final weekend of Birders’ Special Pelagics went 6 miles south of St. Mary’s and hit the jackpot with a FEA’S/DESERTAS PETREL (photo), also seen were 20 European Storm-petrel, 20 Great Shearwater, 14 Cory’s Shearwater, a Sooty Shearwater, 500 Manx Shearwater, an adult Sabine’s Gull, an Arctic Skua, 2 Great Skua, 100 Short-beaked Dolphin and a Blue Shark.
Pectoral Sandpiper – 1 still on the Great Pool, Tresco.
Wood Sandpiper – 3 on the Great Pool, Tresco and 1 on Porth Hellick Pool.
Cuckoo – 1 Pelistry Bay.
Wood Warbler – 1 still in the pines at Mount Todden.
Pied Flycatcher – 1 Higher Moors.
Yellow Wagtail – 1 on the Great Pool, Tresco.
Saturday (27/08)
Birders on the penultimate daytime Birders’ Special Pelagic trip 12 miles south of St. Mary’s saw 4 European Storm-petrel, 16 Great Shearwater, 12 Cory’s Shearwater, 2 Sooty Shearwater, 3 Balearic Shearwater, 1000 Manx Shearwater, 8 Grey Phalarope, 10 Atlantic Bluefin Tuna and 80 Short-beaked Dolphin.
Pectoral Sandpiper – 1 still on the Great Pool, Tresco.
Wood Sandpiper – 3 still on the Great Pool, Tresco.
Green Sandpiper – 2 on the Great Pool, Tresco.
Common Sandpiper – 1 on the Great Pool, Tresco.
Black-tailed Godwit – 6 on the Great Pool, Tresco.
Water Rail – 1 on the Great Pool, Tresco.
Kingfisher – 1 on the Great Pool, Tresco.
Great Spotted Woodpecker – 1 at the south end of Lower Moors.
Wood Warbler – 1 still in the pines at Mount Todden.
