A selection from Thursday’s log call:
Tawny Pipit – 1 Bryher.
Wilson’s Snipe – A possible in Lower Moors.
Pectoral Sandpiper – 1 on the Great Pool, Tresco.
Buff-breasted Sandpiper – 1 in a field at Telegraph before flying to the Golf Course.
Rose-coloured Starling – A juvenile on St. Martin’s.
Common Rosefinch – 1 Bryher.
Great Shearwater – 20o on a pelagic trip and 80 off St. Agnes and 5 from the Scillonian III on the crossing from Penzance to St. Mary’s.
Sooty Shearwater – 20 on a pelagic trip and 6 off St. Agnes.
European Storm-petrel – 2 on a pelagic trip and 2 from the Scillonian III on the crossing from Penzance to St. Mary’s.
Spoonbill – 1 on Green Island, Samson.
Red-breasted Flycatcher – 1 on Pool Road, Tresco.
Yellow-browed Warbler – 1 Higher Moors.
Firecrest – 1 Longstone and 1 Newford Duck Pond.
Wryneck – 1 by the Riding Stables.
Whooper Swan – 1 on the Abbey Pool, Tresco.
Common Scoter – 1 off St. Martin’s.
Great Northern Diver – 1 from the Scillonian III on the crossing from Penzance to St. Mary’s.
Little Egret – 2 Porthloo, 2 Great Pool and 1 Samson.
Grey Plover – 1 Porthloo.
Whimbrel – 1 Porth Hellick, 1 Innisidgen, 1 Peninnis and 2 Porthloo.
Bar-tailed Godwit – 1 Porthcressa.
Purple Sandpiper – 1 Norrard Rocks,
Mediterranean Gull – 1 Porthcressa.
Great Skua – 10 on a pelagic trip and 6 off Giant’s Castle and 3 from the Scillonian III on the crossing from Penzance to St. Mary’s.
Puffin – 2 on a pelagic trip.
Turtle Dove – 1 by the quay.
Kingfisher – 1 Lower Moors and 1 Porth Hellick.
Merlin – 1 Peninnis, 1 Hugh Town and 1 St. Martin’s.
Garden Warbler – 1 Salakee.
Spotted Flycatcher – 8 on St. Mary’s, 5 on Tresco and 2 on St. Agnes.
Pied Flycatcher – 1 on the Garrison.
Redstart – 1 Trewince.
Whinchat – 5 Standing Stones Field, Lower Moors, 1 Peninnis and 1 St. Martin’s.
Yellow Wagtail – 1 Lower Moors and 1 Airfield.
White Wagtail – 6 Airfield.
Siskin – 3 Garrison, 1 Longstone, 1 Rosehill and 3 St. Agnes.
Reed Bunting – 1 Gugh.