A selection from Thursday’s log call:
Rustic Bunting – 1 still in a field at Longstone.
Dusky Warbler – 2 in Lower Moors.
Surf Scoter – 1 St. Helen’s Pool.
Little Bunting – 2 Tresco.
Great White Egret – 1 Seen around St. Mary’s before moving to St. Martin’s.
Cattle Egret – 1 Tresco.
Richard’s Pipit – 1 flew over Bryher.
Rose-coloured Starling – 1 Porthcressa and 1 St. Agnes.
Cetti’s Warbler – Still 1 at Porth Hellick.
Water Pipit – 2 on Tresco and 1 on St. Agnes.
Serin – 1 Longstone and it or another over the cattle field behind the pines between Porth Hellick and Salakee Down.
Icterine Warbler – 1 Apple Tree Glade, Bryher.
Woodlark – 1 St. Martin’s.
Siberian Chiffchaff – 2 Porth Hellick.
Yellow-browed Warbler – 6 on Tresco, 4 on St. Mary’s and 1 on St. Martin’s.
Firecrest – 1 St. Martin’s.
Spoonbill – 3 on Samson.
Black Redstart – 7 on St. Mary’s, 3 on Tresco and 3 on St. Martin’s.
Whooper Swan – 1 on the Abbey Pool, Tresco.
Shoveler – 1 on the Great Pool, Tresco.
Wigeon – 35 on the Great Pool.
Pintail – 2 on Abbey Pool, Tresco.
Common Scoter – 2 St. Helen’s Pool.
Little Egret – 10 Tresco.
Golden Plover – 1 on the Airfield.
Lapwing – 1 flew over Bryher and Tresco.
Whimbrel – 1 Porth Hellick, 1 Tresco Channel and 2 St. Agnes.
Bar-tailed Godwit – 5 Tresco and 3 Tresco Channel.
Wood Sandpiper – 1 on the Great Pool, Tresco.
Jack Snipe – 1 Porth Hellick Pool and 1 Great Pool.
Mediterranean Gull – A record count off Tresco, 9 in the Roads and 3 Porthcressa.
Kingfisher – 1 Old town Bay and 1 Porthcressa.
Merlin – 1 or 2 on St. Mary’s and 1 Tresco.
Skylark – 8 on Tresco and 2 on the Golf Course.
Lesser Whitethroat – 1 Lower Moors thought to be of the Eastern race halimodendri.
Fieldfare – 40+ on St. Mary’s and 17 on Tresco.
Redwing – 12 Porthcressa, 15 Tresco and 3 on St. Martin’s.
Mistle Thrush – 1 Longstone, 1 St. Martin’s and 1 Tresco.
Brambling – 2 at Longstone, 5 on Tresco and 2 St. Martin’s.
Lesser Redpoll – 3 St. Agnes and 1 Tresco.
Siskin – 2 Tresco.
Reed Bunting – 1 in the Standing Stones Field and 2 Tresco.