A selection from Monday night’s log:
Wilson’s Snipe – The bird thought probably to be this species was still on Porth Hellick Pool.
Pallas’s Warbler – 1 in the Parsonage, St. Agnes.
American Golden Plover – 1 still on Porth Hellick Beach.
Little Bunting – 1 on St. Agnes.
Leach’s Storm-petrel – 2 in the Roads and one picked up on Periglis, St. Agnes. This a scarce bird on Scilly.
Red-breasted Flycatcher – 2 Watermill.
Hawfinch – 4 at Maypole, 4 at Pelistry and 1 on Tresco.
Yellow-browed Warbler – 5 on St. Mary’s.
Firecrest – 3 on St. Mary’s.
Ring Ouzel – 1 at Giant’s Castle.
Lapland Bunting – 1 on Peninnis.
Sooty Shearwater – 1 past Peninnis and 1 past Deep Point.
Balearic Shearwater – 6 past Peninnis and 1 past Deep Point.
Pale-bellied Brent Goose – 2 Porthloo.
Common Scoter – 1 past Peninnis.
Great Northern Diver – 1 in the Roads.
Whimbrel – 1 Porthloo.
Woodcock – 1 Porth Hellick Down.
Great Skua – 8 off the Garrison, 2 of Peninnis and 1 in the Roads.
Mediterranean Gull – 1 Porthloo.
Merlin – A female around St. Mary’s.
Black Redstart – 8 on St. Mary’s.
Yellow Wagtail – 1 Lower Moors.
Siskin – 50 Watermill.
Reed Bunting – 1 Porth Hellick.