A selection from Monday’s log call:
Greenish Warbler – 1 on St. Agnes.
Tawny Pipit – 1 Bryher.
Red-throated Pipit – 1 on St. Agnes.
Aquatic Warbler – A bird thought by some to be this species was very elusive in bracken at Porth Mellon.
Cattle Egret – 5 on Tresco.
Rose-coloured Starling – A juvenile on St. Martin’s.
Common Rosefinch – 1 Maypole and 1 Gugh.
Barred Warbler – 1 Porth Hellick.
Pomarine Skua – An adult with full “spoons” was seen on the morning pelagic trip.
Sooty Shearwater – 2 on the morning pelagic trip.
European Storm-petrel – 12 on the morning pelagic trip.
Red-backed Shrike – 1 St. Agnes.
Red-breasted Flycatcher – 1 St. Martin’s.
Yellow-browed Warbler – 11 on St. Mary’s and 2 on St. Agnes.
Firecrest – 1 Newford duck Pond and 1 St. Agnes.
Spoonbill – 1 Green Island, Samson.
Black Redstart – 1 Pelistry and 1 St. Martins.
Whooper Swan – 1 on the Abbey Pool, Tresco.
Pintail – 2 on the Abbey Pool, Tresco.
Little Egret – 1 Old Town Bay, 1 Porth Hellick and 3 on Tresco.
Golden Plover – 2 on the airfield.
Whimbrel – 1 Peninnis, 1 Bar and 1 Bryher.
Bar-tailed Godwit – 1 Porthcressa.
Purple Sandpiper – 1 on the Western Rocks.
Jack Snipe – 1 Porth Hellick.
Wood Sandpiper – 1 on the Great Pool, Tresco.
Mediterranean Gull – 1 St. Mary’s Sound, 6 Bryher and 2 Tresco.
Great Skua – 5 on the morning pelagic trip.
Puffin – 1 on the morning pelagic trip.
Kingfisher – 1 Porthcressa, 1 Porth Hellick and 1 Old Town Bay.
Merlin – A male and a female on St. Mary’s and 1 over Tresco Channel.
Skylark – 1 Old Town, 1 Bryher and 1 St Martin’s.
Garden Warbler – 1 Lower Moors.
Lesser Whitethroat – 1 Longstone.
Ring Ouzel – 1 on Tresco.
Spotted Flycatcher – 1 Old Town Churchyard and 3 Bryher.
Pied Flycatcher – 1 Longstone.
Redstart – 1 Morning Point and 1 St. Agnes.
Whinchat – 6 in the Standing Stones Field, lower Moors and 1 Bryher.
Yellow Wagtail – 4 Longstone and 2 Old Town.
White Wagtail – 25 over Hugh Town quay, 1 Porthloo, 1 airfield, 1 Lower Moors and 2 Bryher.
Reed Bunting – 1 Bryher and 3 in the Standing Stones Field, Lower Moors.