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…)
St. Mary’s – The Ortolan Bunting was still on Peninnis and the Tawny Pipit was still on the airfield. 4 Yellow Wagtails were in a field at Lower Moors, a Firecrest was at Trenoweth, a Pied Flycatcher was at Newford Read more…