Thursday (01/09)
Great White Egret – 1 flew high west over Porth Hellick Pool.
Pectoral Sandpiper still on the Great Pool, Tresco.
Red-backed Shrike – The juvenile was still in the maze orchard along Carn Friars Farm Track.
Osprey – 1 over St. Agnes.
Great Shearwater – 12 on a sharking/birding trip 3 miles southwest of Bishop Rock.
Manx Shearwater – 50 on a sharking/birding trip 3 miles southwest of Bishop Rock.
European Storm-petrel – 8 on a sharking/birding trip 3 miles southwest of Bishop Rock.
Yellow-legged Gull – A sub-adult on a sharking/birding trip 3 miles southwest of Bishop Rock.
Arctic Tern – 1 on a sharking/birding trip 3 miles southwest of Bishop Rock.
Black Tern – 1 on a sharking/birding trip 3 miles southwest of Bishop Rock.
Wood Sandpiper – 1 on the Great Pool, Tresco.
Ruff – 1 still on a small scrape behind the Star Castle staff accommodation, 2 in Lower Moors and 3 on the Great Pool, Tresco.
Little Stint – 2 on Abbey Pool, Tresco.
Curlew Sandpiper – 1 on the Great Pool and it or another also seen on Abbey Pool, Tresco.
Wood Sandpiper – 1 on the Great Pool, Tresco.
Green Sandpiper – 3 on the Pool and 1 in the Standing Stones Field, Lower Moors and 1 on the Great Pool, Tresco.
Common Sandpiper – 1 on the Great Pool, Tresco.
Golden Plover – 1 in a field adjacent to Longstone Cottage.
Black-tailed Godwit – 4 on Abbey Pool, Tresco.
Bar-tailed Godwit – 4 flew past the coastal path below the Golf Course.
Hobby – 1 over the fields behind the David Hunt Hide on Tresco.
Kingfisher – 1 Lower Moors Pool and 1 Porth Hellick Pool.
Swift – 1 over Porth Hellick Pool.
Common Whitethroat – 1 on Carn Friars Farm
Whinchat – 4 on the coastal path below the Golf Course, 1 perched on a furled net! at Porth Hellick Ringing Station and 1 on Peninnis.
Pied Flycatcher – 1 in Lower Moors, 2 in the maze orchard on the Carn Friars Farm and 2 along the Dead Pine Walk on the Garrison.
Spotted Flycatcher – 4 in Lower Moors
Tree Pipit – 2 in Lower Moors, 2 in the maze orchard on the Carn Friars Farm and 1 at Porth Hellick.
White Wagtail – 2 Porth Killier, St. Agnes.
Short-beaked Common Dolphin– 40 on a sharking/birding trip 3 miles southwest of Bishop Rock.
Friday (02/09)
Ortolan Bunting – 1just west of the Big Pool, St. Agnes
Golden Plover – 1 in a field adjacent to Longstone Cottage.
Ruff – 1 Lower Moors.
Wood Sandpiper – 4 flew southwest over the airfield and 1 at Porth Hellick briefly in the evening.
Green Sandpiper – 1 Lower Moors and 1 Porth Hellick Pool.
Water Rail – 1 Lower Moors.
Hobby – 1 flew east over Lower Moors.
Osprey – 1 moving west along the coast from the Daymark on St. Martin’s.
Wryneck – 1 just east of the Big Pool, St. Agnes and at St. Martin’s Cricket Pitch.
Great Spotted Woodpecker – 1 at Porth Hellick.
Cetti’s Warbler – 1 Lower Moors.
Grasshopper Warbler – 1 trapped and ringed at Porth Hellick Ringing Station.
Lesser Whitethroat – 1 trapped and ringed at Porth Hellick Ringing Station.
Garden Warbler – 1 at Porth Hellick and 1 in the maze orchard on Carn Friars Farm.
Wood Warbler – 1 along New Lane, St. Agnes.
Firecrest – 1 at Porth Hellick.
Whinchat – 1 at Porth Hellick and on the Garrison.
Pied Flycatcher – 1 at Porth Hellick, 1 Lower Moors, 1 Carn Friars and 1 on the Garrison.
Spotted Flycatcher – 2 Lower Moors and 6 on the Garrison.
Tree Pipit – 1 on the Garrison, 3 at Porth Hellick and 1 trapped and ringed nearby at Porth the Ringing Station.
Saturday (03/09)
Common Rosefinch – A juvenile feeding in bramble scrub near Morning Point was seen later behind the Garrison tennis court.
Common Sandpiper – 1 Lower Moors.
Whimbrel – 1 flew northeast over the Garrison.
Balearic Shearwater – 1 seen from the Scillonian III on the morning crossing from Penzance to St. Mary’s
Great shearwater – 2 seen from the Scillonian III on the afternoon crossing from St. Mary’s to Penzance.
Sooty Shearwater – 1 seen from the Scillonian III on the afternoon crossing from St. Mary’s to Penzance.
Kingfisher – 1 Old Town Beach.
Whinchat – 2 Porth Hellick Bank.
Tree Pipit – 2 Porth Hellick Bank.
Sunday (04/09)
Baird’s Sandpiper – 1 from the Swarovski Hide on the Great Pool, Tresco.
Pectoral Sandpiper – 1still from the Swarovski Hide on the Great Pool, Tresco.
Red-backed Shrike – The elusive juvenile was seen again in fields on Carn Friars Farm (photo).
Wood Warbler – A juvenile showed briefly in the sallows opposite Shooters’ Pool, Lower Moors.
Curlew Sandpiper – 3 on the Great Pool, Tresco.
Wood Sandpiper – 1 on the Great Pool, Tresco.
Green Sandpiper – 6 on the Great Pool, Tresco.
Common Sandpiper – 1 in the Standing Stones Field and 2 on the Great Pool, Tresco.
Dunlin – 12 on the Great Pool, Tresco.
Little Stint – 4 on the Great Pool, Tresco.
Greenshank – 6 on the Great Pool, Tresco.
Ruff – 6 on the Great Pool, Tresco and male & a Reeve on Porth Hellick Beach.
Black-tailed Godwit – 30 on the Great Pool, Tresco.
Bar-tailed Godwit – 1 flew southwest over Lower Moors.
Whimbrel – 2 on Porthloo Beach.
Water Rail – 1 on the Great Pool, Tresco.
Kingfisher – 1 in the Standing Stones Field.
Cuckoo – 1 by the Great Pool, Tresco.
Whinchat – 3 on Bryher, 1 in a field on Carn Friars Farm Track and 1 in the Airport fields.
Pied Flycatcher –2 by the Great Pool, Tresco and 2 on Bryher.
Spotted Flycatcher – 2 on Bryher.
Yellow Wagtail – 4 in a field on Carn Friars Farm Track and 16 from the Swarovski Hide on the Great Pool, Tresco.
White/Pied Wagtail – c20 from the Swarovski Hide on the Great Pool, Tresco.
