Saturday (15/04)
Purple Heron – 1 on St, Agnes flew towards Gugh.
Woodchat Shrike – Still the 3 on St. Mary’s: 1 in Deep Point Quarry, 1 on a fence by the eastern runway on the airfield and 1 in the field opposite Bordeaux Pottery.
Snow Bunting – 1 at Pelistry Riding Stables and late news form Friday (14/0$) 1 on the cricket pitch on St. Agnes.
Cattle Egret – 3 on the island in Abbey Pool, Tresco.
Pink-footed Goose – 1 fields east of Little Arthur Farm, St, Martin’s.
Pochard – 2 drakes & a female on Porth Hellick Pool and 4 drakes & 2 females on Abbey Pool, Tresco.
Great Northern Diver – 3 off Samson.
Puffin – 35 on Mincarlo and 10 on Annet.
Purple Sandpiper – 1 on Annet.
Great Spotted Woodpecker – 1 flew over Bordeaux Pottery towards the airfield.
Cetti’s Warbler – 1 singing in the field next to Old Town Inn and 1 in Lower Moors.
Pied Flycatcher – The first of the year was 1 in fields opposite the entrance to St. Martin’s Campsite.
Tree Pipit – 1 behind the fish & chip shop on St. Martin’s.
White Wagtail – 2 at Porth Askin, St. Agnes.
Vagrant Emperor Dragonfly – 1 in deep Point quarry, 1 on the north end of The Plains, St. Martin’s, and 1 on the south side of the road between the Campsite & Seven Stones Inn, St. Martin’s.
Sunday (16/04)
Tawny Pipit – 1 seen again on the Golf Course.
Night Heron – 3 flushed from trees north of Abbey Pool, Tresco.
Woodchat Shrike – 1 still on the boundary fence between Salakee Down & the airfield, 1 still in Deep Point Quarry, and 2 new birds, 1 in the quarry near Woolpack Battery
& 1 on Gugh.
Cattle Egret – 3 opposite Bordeaux Pottery and 1 at Trewince.
Snow Bunting – 1 near the Daymark, St. Martin’s.
Little Egret – 1 at Porth Hellick and 1 on the Great Pool, Tresco.
Pink-footed Goose – 1 on Little Arthur Farm, St. Martin’s.
Black-throated Diver – 1 in Great Bay, St. Martin’s.
Great Northern Diver – 5 between Steval & Samson and 1 off the campsite on St. Agnes.
Purple Sandpiper – 41 Purple Sandpipers on Stony Island.
Whimbrel – 1off Innisidgen, 5 flew north through the Eastern Isles and 10 flew in from the south and landed near Tresco.
Hobby – 1 Parting Carn.
Jackdaw – 2 seen on St. Mary’s and 2 flew east over Little Arthur Farm, St. Martin’s.
Cetti’s Warbler – 1 Lower Moors.
Grasshopper Warbler – 1 was reeling in Lower Moors.
Sedge Warbler – The first of the year was 1 in Lower Moors.
Tree Pipit – 1 singing at Helvear and 1 Peninnis.
Monday (17/04)
Woodchat Shrike – 1 in front of Carron Farm, St. Martin’s, 1 still in the quarry near Woolpack Battery on the Garrison, 1 still in the quarry at Deep Point, 1 on Salakee Down and what was thought to be the “Bordeaux bird” was found dead near Carreg Dhu
Night Heron – 1 flushed from the leat at Porth Hellick.
Little Ringed Plover – 1 in a ploughed just northeast of Troy Town Maze on St. Agnes. This is a scarce species on Scilly.
Dotterel – 1 calling at 22:05 over Longstone.
Cattle Egret – Up to 5 seen around St. Mary’s.
Great Northern Diver – 8 off the Garrison, 2 off the south end of Tresco and 2 off St. Agnes.
Pochard – A pair were still on Porth Hellick Pool.
Green Sandpiper – 1 flying around at the east end of the Great Pool, Tresco.
Common Sandpiper – 1 Porth Hellick Bay, 1 flying around at the east end of the Great Pool, Tresco and 1 on Periglis Beach, St. Agnes,
Whimbrel – 3 at Little Porth.
Common Tern – 1 Porth Cressa.
Cetti’s Warbler – 1 calling in Lower Moors.
Common Whitethroat – 1 by the Reading Room on St. Martin’s.
Sedge Warbler – 1 Lower Moors.
Grasshopper Warbler – 1 singing at the north end of Lower Moors behind Sand Banks Farm.
Ring Ouzel –2 at Middle Town, St. Martin’s and 3 at Porth Seal, St. Martin’s.
Common Redstart – 1 at Porth Hellick.
White Wagtail – 3 at Troy Town Campsite St.Agnes.
Tuesday (18/04)
Woodchat Shrike – 1 on Gugh
Cattle Egret – 1 Trewince and 1 on the Great Pool, Tresco.
Little Egret – 1 at Bar Point.
Little Ringed Plover – 1 still on St. Agnes on Periglis Beach (photo).
Great Northern Diver – 1 just north of Bacon Buoy in the Roads, 1 Crow Sound.
Snow Bunting – 1 on the cricket pitch on St. Agnes (photo).
Pink-footed Goose – 1 still at Little Arthur Farm, St. Martin’s.
Green Sandpiper – 1 flew towards Porth Hellick Pool.
Common Sandpiper – 1 on Periglis Beach, St. Agnes.
Bar-tailed Godwit – 2 on Periglis Beach, St. Agnes and 1 n Porth Cressa.
Whimbrel – 2 on the coastal path at Carn Morval, 1 Bar Point and 2 Periglis, St. Agnes.
Arctic Tern – 1 flew through the. Roads.
Common Buzzard – 1 flew over Cove Vean, St. Agnes.
Rook – 1 flew over Gugh. And it our another on the north side of Golf Course.
Reed Warbler – 1 Porth Hellick.
Redwing – 1 on the coastal path at Carn Morval.
Ring Ouzel – 1 on the coastal path at Carn Morval, 2 in the Middle Town pines, St. Martin’s, 1 at Horse Point, St. Agnes and 1 flew through Periglis, St. Agnes.
Black Redstart – 1 on the Heliport fence on Tresco.
Tree Pipit – 1 flew south over Tresco, 1 flew over Little Arthur Farm and 1 Perpitch, both St. Martin’s
Blue-headed Wagtail – 1 Pound Lane, St. Martin’s and a Yellow Wagtail which was probably Blue-headed at Troy Town, St. Agnes.
White Wagtail – 2 Periglis, St. Agnes.
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