Wednesday (29/09)
Western Bonelli’s Warbler – 1 still in the extreme northern end of Middle Town Pines, St. Martin’s.
American Golden Plover – 1 still on Bryher Pool (photo).
Woodchat Shrike – The subspecies badius“Balearic” Shrike was still on Helvear.
Buff-breasted Sandpiper – 1 still on Shipman Head Down, Bryher (photo).
Glossy Ibis – 1 on Porth Hellick Pool flew off several times and then returned.
Spotted Crake – 1 seen in a ditch by the path from the road to the hides at Porth Hellick.
Pectoral Sandpiper – 1 still on Porth Hellick Pool.
Red-backed Shrike – 1 still near the camp site on St. Martin’s.
Common Rosefinch – 1 still at Browarth, St. Agnes.
Great Crested Grebe – The juvenile was off Watermill.
Spotted Redshank – 1 still on the Great Pool, Tresco.
European Storm-petrel – 7 on the daytime pelagic trip 6 miles south of St. Mary’s.
Pink-footed Goose – 1 circled Porth Hellick and appeared to land in nearby fields, also seen on St. Agnes Pool then on Bryher Pool and then flew towards Tresco (photo).
Pale-bellied Brent Goose – 1 off Bar Point and 5 off Lizard Point, Tresco.
Pintail – 1 on the Great Pool, Tresco.
Eider – 1 off Guther’s Rock, St. Martin.
Little Egret – 1 Porth Hellick.
Common Sandpiper – 1 at Watermill and 1 on Town Beach.
Bar-tailed Godwit – 3 Porthloo.
Mediterranean Gull – 1 at Morning Point and 1 at Watermill.
Yellow-browed Warbler – 1 at Borough Farm, Tresco.
Cetti’s Warbler – 1 calling at Porth Hellick.
Whinchat – 1 near Higher Moors pumping station, 1 McFarland’s Down and 1 at Hillside Farm, Bryher.
Whitethroat – 1 above Bryher Campsite.
Skylark – 1 flew Higher Moors pumping station and 1 at Hillside Farm, Bryher.
Tree Pipit – 1 near the camp site on St. Martin’s.
White Wagtail – 5 Maypole and 3 Bryher.
Yellow Wagtail – 1 flew over Sandy Lane.
Monarch butterfly – 1 flew over Pelistry.
Thursday (30/09)
Woodchat Shrike – The subspecies badius“Balearic” Shrike was still on Helvear.
Glossy Ibis – 1 was flushed from the Standing Stones Field, Lower Moors.
American Golden Plover – 1 still on Bryher Pool.
Pectoral Sandpiper – 2 on Porth Hellick Pool and 2 on Lower Moors, assumed to be the same birds, 1 on Abbey Pool, Tresco. 1 of these (or another) flew the Big Pool, St. Agnes in the morning. So there were a minimum of 3 birds on the island and possibly 4.
Buff-breasted Sandpiper – 1 still on Shipman Head Down, Bryher.
Spotted Crake – 1 still on the Great Pool, Tresco, seen from the Swarovski Hide.
Grey Phalarope – 3 on the sea off Horse Point, St. Agnes.
Great Crested Grebe – The juvenile was still in Watermill Cove.
Spotted Redshank – 1 still on the edge of Simpson’s Field on the Great Pool, Tresco.
Red-backed Shrike – 1 still on St. Martin’s, 2 fields east of the camp site.
Balearic Shearwater – 4 flew west past Peninnis Head in an early morning sea watch.
Pink-footed Goose – 1 on the Great Pool, Tresco, it flew off southwest and was alter seen on Bryher Pool.
Pale-bellied Brent Goose – 1 still off Bar Point and 1 on Bryher Pool.
Pintail – 1 on the Great Pool, Tresco.
Shoveler – 1 on the Great Pool, Tresco.
Pochard – 1 on the Great Pool, Tresco.
Merlin – 1 fighting with a crow in the field below Longstone Café.
Little Egret – 4 on the Great Pool, Tresco and 1 Porth Hellick Bay.
Bar-tailed Godwit – 3 still at Porthloo.
Common Sandpiper – 1 on the edge of Simpson’s Field on the Great Pool, Tresco.
Mediterranean Gull – 1 at Morning Point.
Kingfisher – 1 at Porth Hellick Pool.
Cetti’s Warbler – 1 calling at Porth Hellick.
Spotted Flycatcher – 1 in Rosehill Memorial Garden and 1 St. Martin’s.
Common Redstart – A female in a field east of Pentle House, Tresco.
Whinchat – 1 still at Higher Moors south of the pumping station, 1 north of Pungies Lane and 1 St. Martin’s.
Tree Pipit – 1 still near the camp site on St. Martin’s.
White Wagtail – 5 at Porth Hellick.
Grey Wagtail – 1 on the Great Pool, Tresco.
