Scilly: Juv. Red backed Shrike on Castella Down, St Agnes today. pic.twitter.com/P6d5iWlvcA
— Beachy Birder (@BEACHYBIRDER) 5 October 2018
A selection from Friday’s log call:
Tawny Pipit – 1 Bryher.
Wilson’s Snipe – A possible in Lower Moors
Buff-breasted Sandpiper – 1 on the airfield.
Glossy Ibis – 1 circled St. Agnes and landed briefly in the middle of the island before flying off northwest.
Cattle Egret – 6 on the Great Pool, Tresco.
Rose-coloured Starling – 2 juveniles on St. Martin’s.
Common Rosefinch – 2 Bryher.
Corncrake – 1 Bryher.
Red-backed Shrike – 1 St. Agnes.
Great Shearwater – 70+ off St. Agnes and 3 from the Scillonian III on the crossing from Penzance to St. Mary’s.
Sooty Shearwater – 1 from the Scillonian III on the crossing from Penzance to St. Mary’s.
European Storm-petrel – 2 from the Scillonian III on the crossing from Penzance to St. Mary’s.
Spoonbill – 1 on Green Island, Samson.
Yellow-browed Warbler – 4 on St. Mary’s, 1 on St. Martin’s and 1 on St. Agnes.
Wryneck – 1 on St. Agnes.
Black Redstart – 1 Rocky Hill and 1 St. Martin’s.
Whooper Swan – 1 on the Abbey Pool, Tresco.
Pintail – 2 on the Abbey Pool, Tresco.
Common Scoter – 5 Tresco Channel.
Little Egret – 2 Porthloo, 2 Great Pool and 1 Samson.
Grey Plover – 1 Porthloo.
Whimbrel – 4 on St, Mary’s and 4 on Bryher.
Bar-tailed Godwit – 1 Porthcressa, 1 Tresco and 1 Teän.
Woodcock – 1 Airfield.
Mediterranean Gull – 2 in the Roads and 2 in Tresco Channel.
Great Skua – 1 off St. Agnes and 6 from the Scillonian III on the crossing from Penzance to St.Mary’s.
Puffin – 3 from the Scillonian III on the crossing from Penzance to St. Mary’s.
Turtle Dove – 1 Old Town.
Kingfisher – 1 Lower Moors and 1 Tresco.
Merlin – 1 eating a House Sparrow in Buzza quarry.
Garden Warbler – 1 trapped and ringed at Porth Hellick.
Lesser Whitethroat – 1 Porth Hellick Loop.
Redwing – The first of the autumn flew over Lower Moors.
Spotted Flycatcher – 6 on St. Mary’s, 1 on Tresco, 1 on St. Martin’s and 2 on Bryher.
Pied Flycatcher – 1 on the Garrison.
Redstart – 3 St. Mary’s, 3 St. Agnes and 1 Bryher.
Whinchat – 5 Standing Stones Field, Lower Moors, 1 Peninnis, 1 St. Agnes, 1 Bryher and 1 St. Martin’s.
Yellow Wagtail – 1 Bryher.
White Wagtail – 3 Lower Moors, 1 Airfield and 1 St. Martin’s.
Tree Pipit – 1 Telegraph.
Lesser Redpoll – 1 Tresco.
Siskin – 1 Holy Vale and 2 Tresco.
Reed Bunting – 2 in off the sea on St. Agnes.