Sunday 21st October 2012 IoS Bird Reports

Ring-necked Duck – The first-winter male and 2 females were still on Porth Hellick Pool.

Red-throated Pipit – 1 in fields behind Old Town before flying towards the airfield.

Rose-coloured Starling – 1 on St. Agnes.

Richard’s Pipit – 1 still on St. Agnes.

Spotted Crake – 1 still in Lower Moors.

Woodlark – 2 on St. Agnes and then Gugh.

Coal Tit – 2 on Bryher, 2 on St. Agnes, 1 Bant’s Carn and 2 in Lower Moors.

Red-breasted Flycatcher – 1 or 2 on St. Agnes, 1 in the Parsonage and it or another later at Troy Town.

Yellow-browed Warbler – 1 Holy Vale, 1 Lower Moors, 1 on Bryher, 4 on Tresco and 2 on St. Agnes.

Whooper Swan – 6 still on the Great Pool, Tresco and 11 new arrivals at Porth Hellick.

Pale-bellied Brent Goose – 1 on Bryher.

Great Northern Diver – 1 off Bar Point.

Little Egret – 19 in Tresco channel, 1 at Old Town and 1 on St. Agnes.

Spoonbill – Still 2, today on Tresco.

Marsh Harrier – 1 over Annet.

Merlin – A male & female on St. Mary’s and a male on St. Agnes.

Golden Plover – 11 on the airfield.

Jack Snipe – 1 on Bryher.

Mediterranean Gull – A first-winter bird was at Pelistry Bay.

Long-eared Owl – 1 flew from Sunnyside Farm Trail towards Telegraph.

Great Spotted Woodpecker – 1 in the Holy Vale/Porth Hellick area.

Black Redstart – 1 on Porthloo Beach, 2 at Porth Hellick, 1 in Hugh Town, 1 on St. Agnes and 1 on Bryher.

Whinchat – 1 at Mount Todden and 1 on the airfield.

Firecrest – 1 Holy Vale, 1 Lower Moors, 3 Old Town and 1 St. Agnes.

Spotted flycatcher – 1 on St. Agnes.

Pied flycatcher – 1 on St. Agnes.

Rook – 1 still on Tresco.

Brambling – 6 on St. Mary’s and 5 on Tresco.

Siskin – 6 in Holy Vale, 2 Lower Moors and 3 on Bryher.

Lesser Redpoll – 1 Tresco.

Snow Bunting – 1 flew over the Garrison and 1 was on Gugh.