Thursday (03/04)
Little Ringed Plover – 1 on the Golf Course.
Woodchat Shrike – 1 sill in the pig field at Trewince (photo).
Red-backed Shrike – A female at Middle Town, At. Martin’s.
Night Heron – 1 still at Shooters’ Pool, Lower Moors and 1 over Porth Hellick
Purple Heron – 1 at Lower Moors and 3 around Porth Hellick (photo)
Serin – 1 flew across the pig field at Trewince,
Hoopoe – Still 10+ on St, Mary’s, 4 on Tresco and 1 on St. Martin’s
Nightingale – 1 heard briefly singing near the children’s playground at Porth Cressa.
Red Kite – 1 again seen over several locations on St. Mary’s and also seen over Tresco.
Common Sandpiper – 1 on Bryher Pool.
Firecrest – 1 still singing in Careg Dhu Gardens.
Ring Ouzel – A male at the northern end of the Golf Course, a male at the Garrison Campsite, 2 Hell Bay & 2 Fraggle Rock, Bryher and 1 on Bryher.
Mistle Thrush – 2 on the Golf Course.
Fieldfare – 3 Hell Bay, Bryher and 3 on Tresco,
Redwing – 2 Hell Bay, Bryher.
Wheatear – At least 40 and 25+ at Gimble Porth. Tresco.
Black Redstart – 30+ 0n St. Mary’s and 20+ Tresco.
Common Redstart – 1 in the pig field at Trewince and 1at the east end of the Great Pool, Tresco.
White Wagtail – 1 Little Porth and 4 on the golf course.
Yellow Wagtail – 1 at Gimble Porth. Tresco.
Blue=headed Wagtail – 2 at the Riding Stables and 1at Gimble Porth. Tresco.
Brambling – 19 at Gimble Porth. Tresco.
Friday (04/04)
Woodchat Shrike – 1 still in the pig field at Trewince.
Hoopoe – 7+ on St. Mary’s, 5 on St. Martin’s and 2 on Bryher.
Purple Heron –1 dropped into the reds at Porth Hellick Pool
Nightingale – 1 by Buzza Tower and 1 at MacFarland’s Down.
Hawfinch – A female in a garden in Holy Vale (photo).
Red Kite – 1 still roaming St. Mary’s.
Golden Pover – 1 flew over the airport and 1 over the Golf Course
Common Sandpiper – 1 on Bryher.
Green Sandpiper – 1 on Bryher.
Jack Snipe – 2 on the Porth Hellick loop trail.
Whimbrel – 7 Toll’s Porth.
Arctic Tern – 2 seen in Scilly waters from the Scillonian III on the afternoon crossing from St. Mary’s to Penzance.
Merlin – 1 on Bryher and 1 on St. Agnes.
Skylark – 3 on Bryher and 1 on St. Agnes
Blackcap– Am obvious arrival with 24 on Bryher, “lots” on St, Agnes and 30+ (including 20 in 1 bush), on the Garison late evening on the Garrison, which mirroring the fall of migrants on Bryher also included 30 Chiffchaff, 40 Robin, 20 Song Thrush and a Redwing. Also there were 50 Song Thrush and 20 Robin on the Golf Course.
Common Whitethroat – The first of the year was 1 at Bant’s Carn.
Mistle Thrush – 6 on the Golf Course, 1 Carn Friars and 1 on Bryher.
Fieldfare – 14 on Bryher,
Ring Ouzel – A female at Bant’s Carn and 3 males on Bryher
Common Redstart – A cracking male in the pig field at Trewince, 2 males on Bryher and 1 on Gugh.
Black Redstart– 60+ on St. Mary’s On Bryher there was an amazing 80+ on Bryher, these were part of a large fall of migrants, which as well as species mentioned separately included: 180+Phylloscopus war (mainly Chiffchaff with a few Willow Warbler), 1oo+ Wheatear. 250+ Song Thrush, 90+ Robinsand 50+ Linnets.
Pied Flycatcher – A female was picked up dead, having flown into a window and a male was at Newford duckpond.
Tree Pipit – 2 on Peninnis, 17 on Bryher and 2 on Gugh
Brambling – 2 at Pelistry Riding Stables (photo) and 10 on Bryher.
Saturday (05/04)
Purple Heron – 1 in flight at Lower Moors may have landed in the reeds.
Night Heron – 1 in Lower Moors
Nightingale – 1 in the evening on the Dead Pine Walk on the Garrison.
Little Tern – 1 lingering east of Lower Town Quay, St. Martin’s.
Little Ringed Plover – 1 on Bryher Pool.
Red-breasted Merganser – A female in Tresco Channel and it or another was seen off St. Martin’s.
Hoopoe – 1 landed on Scillonian III as it approached the islands & then flew off towards Bar Point, 1 near the sports pavilion on the Garrison, 1 near the Porth Hellick Down burial chamber, 1 flew over a garden at Watermill, 2 in a tree in a garden at Pilot’s Retreat, 3 on Bryher and 1 n St. Martin’s.
Hawfinch – 1 again in a garden in Holy Vale.
Common Whitethroat – A female on Bryher.
Ring Ouzel – 1 on St. Martin’s.
Fieldfare – 1 on the Garrison and 1 on Bryher.
Redwing – 1 on Bryher.
Common Redstart – A male above the Steval, Garrison, 2 in a garden behind Star Castle and a female at New Grimsby, Tresco.
Black Redstart – 15 on St. Mary’s and 14 on Bryher
Pied Flycatcher – 1 near the cadet hut on the Garrison and 1 on
Bryher (photo).
Tree Pipit – 2 between Carn Friars Farm and Carreg Dhu and 1 on Bryher.
Brambling – 4 on St. Martin’s.
Sunday (06/04)
Long-tailed Tit – 1 briefly in the garden of the house “Gunners’ Well” on the Garrison and then flew towards Sallyport. This is a rare bird on Scilly.
Purple Heron – 1 in Lower Moors.
Little Ringed Plover – 1 still on Bryher Pool.
Great White Egret – 1 by Porth Hellick Loop and 1 on Teän.
Hoopoe – 2 on the Garrison Campsite, 1 at Carn Friars,1 in a pasture above the Peninnis allotments. 1 Trenoweth and 2 on Bryher Campsite.
Hawfinch – The female was still in the garden at Holy Vale.
Red-breasted Merganser – 1 off Teän.
Marsh Harrier – 1 over Teän.
Golden Plover – 2 on the airfield.
Jackdaw – 2 in a field opposite the riding Stables.
Firecrest – 1 in Lower Moors.
Ring Ouzel – 1 on the Golf Course.
Fieldfare – 2 at Rushy Bay, Bryher.
Redwing – 10 Rocky Hill.
Black Redstart – 20+ 0n St. Mary’s and 8 on Tresco.
Common Redstart – 1 still in a garden of the staff accommodation behind Star Castle.
Pied Flycatcher – 1 still by the sports pavilion on the Garrison.
Tree Pipit – 2 at Trenoweth.
Yellow Wagtail – 1 flew north over Bryher.
