Bird Sightings

Whether close up on the Pittosporum or distant against the bracken, I could have watched the St Agnes Red-backed Shrike all day (and nearly did!) @ISBG_Scilly @scillyboating pic.twitter.com/EgSu2kZk40

— Jim Almond (@ShropsBirder) 9 October 2018

A selection from Tuesday’s log call:

Greenish Warbler – 1 still on St. Agnes.

Tawny Pipit – 1 Bryher.

Cattle Egret – 5 on Tresco.

Rose-coloured Starling – A juvenile on St. Martin’s.

Common Rosefinch – 1 High Lanes.

Barred Warbler – 1 Porth Hellick.

Red-backed Shrike – 1 St. Agnes. (more…)

A selection from Monday’s log call:

Greenish Warbler – 1 on St. Agnes.

Tawny Pipit – 1 Bryher.

Red-throated Pipit – 1 on St. Agnes.

Aquatic Warbler – A bird thought by some to be this species was very elusive in bracken at Porth Mellon.

Cattle Egret – 5 on Tresco.

Rose-coloured Starling – A juvenile on St. Martin’s.

Common Rosefinch – 1 Maypole and 1 Gugh.

Barred Warbler – 1 Porth Hellick. (more…)

A selection from Saturday’s log call:

Tawny Pipit – 1 Bryher.

Wilson’s Snipe – A possible in Lower Moors.

Buff-breasted Sandpiper – 1 on the airfield.

Cattle Egret – 5 on the Great Pool, Tresco and 1 seen at several locations on St. Mary’s.

Rose-coloured Starling – 2 juveniles on St. Martin’s.

Barred Warbler – 1 Porth Hellick.

Red-backed Shrike – 1 St. Agnes. (more…)

Scilly: Juv. Red backed Shrike on Castella Down, St Agnes today. pic.twitter.com/P6d5iWlvcA

— Beachy Birder (@BEACHYBIRDER) 5 October 2018

A selection from Friday’s log call:

Tawny Pipit – 1 Bryher.

Wilson’s Snipe – A possible in Lower Moors

Buff-breasted Sandpiper – 1 on the airfield.

Glossy Ibis – 1 circled St. Agnes and landed briefly in the middle of the island before flying off northwest.

Cattle Egret – 6 on the Great Pool, Tresco.

Rose-coloured Starling – 2 juveniles on St. Martin’s.

Common Rosefinch – 2 Bryher.

Corncrake – 1 Bryher.

Red-backed Shrike – 1 St. Agnes. (more…)

A selection from Thursday’s log call:

Tawny Pipit – 1 Bryher.

Wilson’s Snipe – A possible in Lower Moors.

Pectoral Sandpiper – 1 on the Great Pool, Tresco.

Buff-breasted Sandpiper – 1 in a field at Telegraph before flying  to the Golf Course.

Rose-coloured Starling – A juvenile on St. Martin’s.

Common Rosefinch – 1 Bryher. (more…)

A selection from Wednesday’s log call:

Tawny Pipit – 1 Bryher.

Pectoral Sandpiper – 1 on the Great Pool, Tresco.

Rose-coloured Starling – A juvenile on St. Martin’s.

Melodious Warbler – 1 Lower Moors.

Common Rosefinch – 1 St. Agnes.

Whooper Swan – the first of the autumn made a brief stop on Porth Hellick Pool before settling on the Great Pool, Tresco.

 Spoonbill – 1 on Green Island, Samson.

Red-breasted Flycatcher – 1 on Pool Road, Tresco. (more…)

A selection from Monday’s log call:

Tawny Pipit – 1 Bryher.

Pectoral Sandpiper – 2 on the Great Pool, Tresco.

Buff-breasted Sandpiper – 1 briefly on the Great Pool, Tresco and what was probably the samebird was seen later on Porth Hellick Beach,

Rose-coloured Starling – A juvenile on St. Martin’s.

 Spoonbill – 1 on Green Island, Samson.

Hobby – A juvenile over Port Hellick.

Red-breasted Flycatcher – 1 on Pool Road, Tresco.

Yellow-browed Warbler – 1 Holy Vale and 1by the Great Pool, Tresco.

Lapland Bunting – 1 Golf Course. (more…)

A selection from Monday’s log call were:

Tawny Pipit – 1 Bryher.

Common Rosefinch – 2 St. Agnes.

Pectoral Sandpiper – 1 on the Great Pool, Tresco.

Rose-coloured Starling – A juvenile on St. Martin’s.

Spoonbill – 1 on Green Island, Samson.

Hobby – 1 over Higher Moors.

Red-breasted Flycatcher – 2 on Pool Road, Tresco.

Yellow-browed Warbler – 1 Lower Moors, 1 Bryher, 1 Tresco, 1 St. Martin’s and 1 on St. Agnes. (more…)

A selection from Sunday’s log call were:

Tawny Pipit – 1 Bryher.

Common Rosefinch – 1 Bryher & 1 St. Agnes.

Little Bunting – 1 was photographed by a non-birder on the coastal path from Porth Hellick Bay to Old town Bay.

Pectoral Sandpiper – 1 on the Great Pool, Tresco.

Wryneck – 1 St. Agnes.

Spoonbill – 1 on Green Island, Samson.

Yellow-browed Warbler – 1 Newford Duck Pond, 1 on the Garrison and 1 on St. Agnes. (more…)

Highlights from the first Log call of the Scilly Season were:

Tawny Pipit – 1 Bryher.

Common Rosefinch – 2 St. Agnes.

Ortolan Bunting – 1 Peninnis.

Pectoral Sandpiper – 1 on the Great Pool, Tresco.

Wryneck – 1 St. Agnes.

 Spoonbill – 1 on Green Island, Samson.

Yellow-browed Warbler – 1 Newford Duck Pond.

Lapland Bunting – 1 Golf Course. (more…)