Tuesday (30/04)
Bee-eater – 1 heard calling over the airfield.
Short-toed Lark – 1 on Shipman Head Down, Bryher.
Woodchat Shrike – 1 still on the airfield.
Hen Harrier – 1 still around St. Mary’s.
Marsh Harrier – 1 on Bryher.
Great Northern Diver – 4 off Morning Point, Garison, 2 in the Roads, 3 Samson Flats and 1 Pentle Bay, Tresco.
Common Sandpiper – 1 on Porth Arlo (the rocky beach below the Mermaid car park).
Purple Sandpiper – 1 Green Island.
Whimbrel – 5 on St. Mary’s, 7 on Tresco, 15 on St. Agnes and 22 on Bryher
Merlin – A female flew through Maypole and it or another on Pungies Lane.
Grasshopper Warbler – 1 reeling at the Watermill/Pungies Lane junction.
Ring Ouzel – 1 on the Golf Course.
Whinchat – 1 Higher Moors.
Wednesday (01/05)
Short-toed Lark – 1 was still on Shipman Head Down, Bryher.
Montagu’s Harrier – The female flew over Bar Point.
Hen Harrier – 1 flew over Salakee then over Kittydown.
Woodchat Shrike – 1 still on Porth Hellick Down, 1 still on the airfield and 1 on Helvear.
Waxwing – A very late bird was in bushes by the beach below Halangy Down.
Little Egret – 1 flew east over St. Martin’s and 1 on Bryher.
Pintail – 1 still on the flooded cricket pitch on St, Martin’s.
Purple Sandpiper – 10 on Melledgan, Western Rocks.
Whimbrel – 1 Little Porth
Merlin – A female in the pig field along King Edward’s Road, Peninnis and 1 over Holy Vale.
Cuckoo – 1 calling at Borough Farm, Tresco.
Grasshopper Warbler – 1 on the Plains, St. Martin’s.
Ring Ouzel – A female was on the airfield.
Thursday (02/05)
Short-toed Lark – 1 on St. Agnes Cricket pitch, moving into a ploughed field on Browarth.
Montagu’s Harrier – 1 just south of the Abbey Pool, Tresco.
Woodchat Shrike – The male was still at Helvear.
Garganey – A drake on Abbey Pool, Tresco.
Shoveler – A drake on Abbey Pool, Tresco.
Little Egret – 2 on Bryher.
Golden Plover – 2 on the airfield.
Common Sandpiper – 1 at Watermill Cove.
Black-tailed Godwit – 6 on St. Agnes.
Whimbrel – 31 Horse Point, St. Agnes , 5 on Bryher, 2 Porth Hellick Beach and “lots” calling over Hugh Town a2 22:40.
Common Swift – 1 over abbey Pool, Tresco.
Cuckoo – 1 singing in pines above Carreg Dhu Gardens, 1 Salakee and 1 over Little Arthur Farm, St. Martin’s,
Lesser Whitethroat – 1 singing in Salakee pines and another singing from the fields on the other side of the boardwalk behind the Porth Hellick hides.
Grasshopper Warbler – 1 reeling in the garden of Watermill Cottage.
Spotted Flycatcher – 1 Carreg Dhu.
Siskin – 1 flew west over Porth Hellick House.
Friday (03/05)Woodchat Shrike – The male was still at Helvear and 1 still on the airfield near Giant s Castle.
Wood Warbler – ! swinging from a hedge on Pelistry Lane.
Golden Oriole – 1 calling in Porth Hellick House Garden and 1 flew over Normandy Farmhouse towards Lunnon.
Great Northern Diver – 1 in Popplestone Bay, Bryher.
Little Egret – 1 on Bryher Pool.
Golden Plover – 3 on the airfield.
Whimbrel – 11 Bryher and 1 on the airfield.
Whinchat – 1 on the tack from Ennor Close, Old Town to the airfield.
Saturday (04/05)
Night Heron – 1 flew east over Hugh Town,
Nightjar – A female was flushed from the track behind Carreg Dhu and flew towards Longstone.
Woodchat Shrike – 1 on the path from Pelistry to Carn Vean Café.
Turtle Dove – 1 in Popplestone Fields, Bryher.
Golden Plover – 13 on the Golf Course.
Short-eared Owl – 1 on Sipman Head Down, Bryher.
Grasshopper Warbler – 1 reeling 2 fields along the road past Four Lanea and 1 reeling near Borough Farmhouse, St. Mary’s.
Tree Pipit – 1 in fields between Normandy and Lunnon.
Sunday (05/05)
Woodchat Shrike – 1 still on Helvear.
Golden Plover – 3 on Castle Down, Tresco.
Cuckoo – 1 at the road junction with Holy Vale and 1 calling on Samson Hill, Bryher.
Cetti’s Warbler – 1 on Porth Hellick Loop, 1 by the pumping station at Higher Moors and 1 and 1 by the water treatment plant at Standing Stones Field, Lower Moors.
Spotted Flycatcher – 1 on Carreg Dhu Lane.