Tuesday (04/10)
Greenish Warbler – A very mobile bird was around the Parsonage Garden, St. Agnes.
Little Bunting – 1 still in the field next to the bakery on St. Martin’s (photo).
Common Rosefinch – 1 still around the Sycamore tree in Peninnis allotments and it or another briefly in a garden in Pilot’s Retreat, above the dump allotments.
Shearwaters – “100s if not 1000s” going west past Peninnis early morning. Estimates were 2500+ Great Shearwater, 100+ Cory’s Shearwater, 400+ Sooty Shearwaters, 200+ Balearic Shearwater and only 1 Manx Shearwater. Also 2000+ distant unidentified large Shearwaters. Birds continued to be seen in smaller numbers off various headlands throughout the day.
Yellow-browed Warbler – 2 in Carreg Dhu Gardens.
Firecrest – 2 in Carreg Dhu Gardens and 1 in Old Town Churchyard.
Long-tailed Duck – 1 still off Par Beach, St. Martin’s.
Wigeon – 1 Porth Hellick Pool.
Little Egret – 1 Porth Hellick Bay.
Curlew Sandpiper – 5 Pentle Bay, Tresco.
Black-tailed Godwit – 2 on the Great Pool, Tresco.
Bar-tailed Godwit – 3 Pentle Bay, Tresco.
Mediterranean Gull – 10 Porth Cressa.
Great Skua – 3 past Peninnis.
Arctic Skua – 1 past Peninnis.
Whinchat – 2 in Holy Vale and 1 Porth Hellick.
Pied Flycatcher – 1 still at Newford Duck Pond and 1 between the quays on Bryher.
Grey Wagtail – 2 at the entrance to Carreg Dhu Gardens.
Redpoll – 1 flew over Watermill.
Wednesday (05/10)
Greenish Warbler – The very elusive bird was still on St .Agnes.
Little Bunting – 1 still in the field next to the bakery on St. Martin’s (photo).
Wryneck – 1 still at Deep Point.
Large Shearwater – Birds too distant to identify that were either Cory’s or Great: 50 past Porth Cressa, 18 off Horse Point, St. Agnes and 20+ past Peninnis.
Cory’s Shearwater –1 off Porth Hellick Down, 5 flew west past Peninnis, 3 off Shipman Head, Bryher, 1 off St. Martin’s.
Great Shearwater –1 off Horse Point, St. Agnes and 1 flew past Bryher.
Sooty Shearwater – 3 off Horse Point, St. Agnes.
Balearic Shearwater – 1 off Horse Point, St. Agnes.
Great Northern Diver – 1 flew north past Bryher.
Tufted Duck – 1 on the Great Pool, Tresco.
Pochard – 2 on the Great Pool, Tresco.
Yellow-browed Warbler – 1 calling at Newford Duck Pond, 1 calling in the Standing Stones Field, Lower Moors and 1 on the Garrison by the entrance to the campsite.
Firecrest – 2 Carreg Dhu and 1 in the Parsonage Garden, St .Agnes.
Golden Plover – 1 on the airfield.
Grey Plover – 1 Pentle Bay, Tresco.
Curlew Sandpiper – 4 on the Great Pool and later at Pentle Bay, Tresco.
Black-tailed Godwit – 1 on the Great Pool, Tresco.
Bar-tailed Godwit – 3 Pentle Bay, Tresco.
Mediterranean Gull – 14 off Porth Hellick Down and 16 Porth Cressa.
Common Gull – 1 flew over Porth Hellick Pool.
Great Skua – 1 past Peninnis and 1 off St.Martin’s.
Merlin – 1 flew over Morning Point what was probably the same over the riding school and 1 om St. Martin’s.
Whinchat – 1 Lower Moors, 1 Carn Vean and 1 on St. Martin’s.
Common Redstart – 1 Lower Moors and 1 on St. Martin’s.
Spotted Flycatcher – 1 in the Parsonage Garden, St .Agnes and 1 in Popplestone Fields, Bryher.
Pied Flycatcher – 1 still at Newford Duck Pond and 1 still between the quays on Bryher.
Grey Wagtail – 3 Lower Moors and 2 on St. Martin’s.
Thursday (06/10)
Not a bad day to be on Scilly!
Fea’s Petrel – 1 on a pelagic trip 6 miles south of St. Mary’s.
Swainson’s Thrush – 1 in Racket Town Cattage garden, Tresco (photo).
Buff-bellied Pipit – Brief views of a “possible” on St. Agnes.
Greenish Warbler – 1 was still in the Parsonage Garden, St .Agnes.
Common Rosefinch – 1 still in the Sycamore in the Peninnis Allotments and it or another again briefly in a garden in Pilot’s Retreat, above the dump allotments.
Wryneck – 1 Porth Wreck, 1 near Carn Leh, Old Town Bay, 1 at Giant’s Castle, 1 by the Flying Boat Café, Tresco and northeast of Porth Killier, St. Agnes.
Great Spotted Woodecker – 1 Still around St.Mary’s.
Cory’s Shearwater – 40 past Peninnis, 1 flew past Giant’s Castle in the evening, 30+ off Horse Point, St. Agnes and 81 past Shipman Head Bryher,7 off Hell Bay, Bryher in the evening and 350 on a pelagic trip 6 miles south of St. Mary’s.
Great Shearwater – 1 past Peninnis and 450 on a pelagic trip 6 miles south of St. Mary’s.
Sooty Shearwater – 4 past Peninnis,1 past Shipman Head Bryher and 150 on a pelagic trip 6 miles south of St. Mary’s.
Balearic Shearwater – 6 past Peninnis.
Manx Shearwater – 10 on a pelagic trip 6 miles south of St. Mary’s.
European Storm-petrel – 3 on a pelagic trip 6 miles south of St. Mary’s and 1 from the Scillonian III on the crossing from Penzance to St. Mary’s.
Long-tailed Duck – 1 still off St. Martin’s.
Grey Phalarope – 1 on a pelagic trip 6 miles south of St. Mary’s,1 off Giant’s Castle and probably the same 1 later off Peninnis.
Golden Plover – 1 flew high over St. Agnes towards St. Mary’s, 1 flew over St. Martin’s and 2 flying around over the airfield.
Curlew Sandpiper – 4 on the Great Pool, Tresco.
Black-tailed Godwit – 3 on the Abbey Pool, Tresco.
Bar-tailed Godwit – 3 Pentle Bay, Tresco and 2 in Lawrence Bay, St. Martin’s.
Mediterranean Gull – 6 past Peninnis.
Kingfisher – 1 flew across Old Town Bay.
Swift sp – 2 unidentified birds over Lower Moors.
Yellow-browed Warbler – 2 at the Rosehill end of Porthloo Lane, 2 Carreg Dhu Gardens 1 Newford Duck Pond, 1 in scrub behind Watermill Cove, 1 Holy Vale and 1 at Borough Farm, Tresco.
Firecrest – 2 Longstone Lane/ Carreg Dhu area.
Raven – 1 flew over Bar Point.
Garden Warbler – 1 behind the tennis court on the Garrison.
Redwing – 1 at Newford Duck Pond.
Black Redstart – The first of the autumn was 1 on the west side of Shipman Head Down.
Pied Flycatcher – 1 still at Newford Duck Pond and 1 in the churchyard on Bryher
Spotted Flycatcher – 1 Carreg Dhu Gardens and 1 at Newford Duck Pond.
Tree Pipit – 1 near Church Town Farm, St. Martin’s.
Redpoll – 1 on the path by Bread & Cheeses Cove, St. Martin’s and 1 flew over the campsite on Bryher.
Short-beaked Common Dolphin – 100 on a pelagic trip 6 miles south of St. Mary’s.
Atlantic Bluefin Tuna – 2 on a pelagic trip 6 miles south of St. Mary’s.
