Apart from pelagic sightings a very quiet week,
Saturday (15/07)
Common Swift – 1 over Trenoweth.
Sunday (16/07)
Mediterranean Gull –7 near Samson 35 around Tresco.
Yellow-legged Gull – A juvenile on Tresco.
Sandwich Tern – 28 on Tresco and 20 near Samson
Tern – 1 near Samson.
Curlew – 80+ on Teän.
Whimbrel – 2 Tresco and 2 near Samson.
Sanderling –40 Tresco.
Dunlin – 12 Tresco and 2 St. Martin’s.
Turnstone – 36 Tresco.
Monday (17/07) & Tuesday (18/07)
No reports.
Wednesday (19/07)
Common Swift – 1 over Church Street, Hugh Town.
Thursday (20/07)
Wilson’s Storm-petrel – 1 on the evening pelagic trip 5 kilometres south of Bishop Rock (photo).
European Storm-petrel – 40 on the evening pelagic trip 5 kilometres south of Bishop Rock.
Common Tern – 1 on Annet and 1 on the evening pelagic trip 5 kilometres south of Bishop Rock.
Common Swift – 1 over High Lanes.
Common Dolphin – 30 on the evening pelagic trip 5 kilometres south of Bishop Rock.
Blue Shark –3 caught, tagged and released on the evening pelagic trip 5 kilometres south of Bishop Rock.
Friday (21/07)
No reports.
