Sunday (10/10)

American Buff-bellied Pipit – There was an unconfirmed report of 1 on Toll’s Island, Pelistry.

American Golden Plover – 1 commuting between Castle Down, Tresco and Shipman Head Down, Bryher.

Pectoral Sandpiper – 1 on the Great Pool, Tresco.

Little Bunting – 1 seen with a Jack Snipe from the Seaward Hide at Porth Hellick (photo) and 1 in the fields adjacent to St. Martin’s Cricket Pitch.

Common Rosefinch – 1 in a field by Middle Town Barn, St. Martin’s 

Red-necked Grebe – 1 flew past Watermill Cove.

Rose-coloured Starling – The juvenile bird was on the east side of Samson Hill, Bryher.

Dotterel – 2 commuting between Castle Down, Tresco & Shipman Head Down, Bryher, and 1 flew over the Garrison towards the golf course.

Spotted Redshank – 1 still on the Great Pool. 

Quail – 1 flushed on Higher Moors from the path at the Holy Vale end.

Jack Snipe – 2 on Porth Hellick Pool, 1 Lower Moors Pool and 1 flew in of the sea at Shipman Head down, Bryher. 

Snow Bunting – 1 at General Boscowan’s Battery, Garrison, 1 Kettle Point, Tresco and 1 still at Browarth, St. Agnes.

Yellow-browed Warbler – 1 Lower Moors, 1 Rosehill Memorial Gardens, 1 Standing Stones Field, 1 near Penninis Allotments, 1 calling near St. Agnes Lighthouse, 1 Middle Down, Tresco and 1 still at Popplestone Bay, Bryher.

Pale-bellied Brent Goose – 1 at southern end of Pentle Beach, Tresco, 1 on Bryher Pool and toff South Beach, Tresco.

Pink-footed Goose – 2 on the Great Pool, Tresco and Bryher Pool.

Little Egret – 5 in Tresco Channel.

Shoveler – 2 on the Great Pool, Tresco.

Common Sandpiper – 1 Bar Point and 1 Porth Coose, St. Agnes.

Bar-tailed Godwit – 1 Porthloo and 12 flew past Darrity’s Hole.

Whimbrel – 2 Toll’s Island, and 8 Dry Ledge.

Yellow-legged Gull – 1 on St. Agnes.

Short-eared Owl – 1 flew over Peninnis Head, heading inland.

Merlin – 1 flew over Peninnis and 1 on Bryher.

Kingfisher – 1 Old Town Bay and 1 White Island, St. Martin’s.

Skylark – 1 over Kittydown, 3 Bryher, 1 over Middle Town Pines, St. Martin’s and 2 Castle Down, Tresco.

Cetti’s Warbler – 1 calling in Lower Moors.

Garden Warbler – 1 Old Grimsby, Tresco and 2 on St. Agnes.

Lesser Whitethroat – 1 Higher Moors, 1 in Middle Town Pines, St. Martin’s, 1 on St.Agnes and 1 Bryher.

Wood Warbler – 1 at the Carn Vean end of Kittydown.

Whinchat – 2 between Watermill & Newford Duck Pond, 2 Parting Carn Farm,1 Penninis, 2 Middle Town, St. Martin’s and 1 on St.Agnes..

Redstart – 1 Peninnis and 1 on St. Agnes.

Black Redstart – 2 below Peninnis Lighthouse, 1 on the roof of the Health Centre, 2 Pungies Lane, 2 Toll’s Porth,1 by the Old Town Inn, 2 by the airport terminal building, 2 at New Grimsby Boatyard, Tresco, 2 in Tresco Churchyard and 1 in the bulb field behind St. Martin’s Bakery.

Spotted Flycatcher – 1 in the pines between Porth Hellick and the eastern runway , 4 on Bryher and 1 behind the Seven Stones Inn, St. Martin’s.

Pied Flycatcher – 1 Old Town Lane, 1 in the Dump Clump, 1 behind the Garrison Campsite and 1 behind the Seven Stones Inn, St. Martin’s.

Tree Pipit – 1 flew over the coastal path on Salakee Down, 1 Sunnyside Farm Trail and 1 in fields adjacent to St. Martin’s Cricket Pitch.

Grey Wagtail – 1 Carn Friars and 1 Peninnis.

Yellow Wagtail – 2 on St. Agnes.

Lesser Redpoll – 1 on St. Agnes.

Siskin – 5 Bryher and 1 on St. Agnes.

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