Wednesday (20/10)
Another wet and windy day.
Spotted Sandpiper – 1 again at Watermill Cove.
Red-breasted Flycatcher – 1 in the Parsonage Garden, St. Agnes.
Woodlark – 1 flew over Newford Duck Pond and was seen briefly on telegraph wires over a field on Pungies Lane.
Water Pipit – 1 in a field at Parting Carn.
Spotted Redshank – 1 still on the Great Pool.
Jack Snipe – 1 on Lower Moors Pool.
Yellow-browed Warbler – 1 at Lower Town Farm, St. Agnes.
Siberian Chiffchaff – 3 in Lower Moors, 1 in a garden opposite Elm Studio, Old Town Lane and at Dump Clump along the dump fence line.
Great Northern Diver – 1 flew east past the Eastern Isles.
Pink-footed Goose – 2 on the Great Pool, Tresco.
Shoveler – 2 on the Great Pool, Tresco.
Pintail – A female on the Great Pool, Tresco.
Pochard – 2 on the Great Pool, Tresco.
Little Egret – 13 on the Great Pool, Tresco and 1 Porthloo.
Whimbrel – 7 Bar Point.
Merlin – 1 Toll’s Island, 1 Peninnis and 1 Castle Down, Tresco.
Kingfisher – 1 Lower Moors and may have been the same bird was seen perched in Town Bay.
Cetti’s Warbler – 1 Lower Moors.
Whitethroat – 1 still in the Standing Stones Field. Lower Moors and 1 around the Blockhouse Cottages, Tresco.
Lesser Whitethroat – 1 at the road end by the gate to Porth Hellick.
Redwing – 17 Tremelethen and 1 Borough Farm, Tresco.
Black Redstart – 1 Little Porth, 1 at Normandy Allotments, 5 Parting Carn and 1 on St. Agnes.
Pied Flycatcher – 1 near the school on St. Agnes.
White Wagtail – 1 Parting Carn.
Siskin – About 200 on Tresco and 20 on Peninnis.