Striped Hawkmoth at Longstones

Heavy rain overnight and this morning this Pectoral Sandpiper was pushed by high water levels up towards the hide at Lower Moors. 

In the dull light, it moved closer to the hide and fell asleep

Late afternoon and Martin Goodey called to tell me that the Black-tailed Godwit that has been on the golf course up road, was at Lower Moors. Like the Pectoral Sandpiper earlier for the same reason, the godwit was directly in front of the hide and dense fog covered the islands throughout the day.

There were also these 2 Snipe preening at close range

The Pectoral Sandpiper is still at Porth Hellick with 3 Dunlin, 5 Green Sandpiper and 18 Teal. Despite the ideal weather conditions, no yanks arrived. However, in Cornwall, Graham Gorden found a Baird's Sandpiper on Marazion Beach. It was last year to almost the day that Graham found a Buff-breasted Sandpiper on the same beach. Two days later he arrived on Scilly and discovered a Cliff Swallow at Porth Hellick! Yes and I was sort of co-finder on the swallow!!! You can read the account here http://scillyspider.blogspot.co.uk/2016/09/5th-cliff-swallow-for-scilly.html

No sign of the Red-backed Shrike that Jim trapped at Porth Hellick two days ago and instead I got this showy Tree Pipit

  

On the 31st August there was a fall of common migrants including some 300 Willow Warbler on St Mary's. Another 60 were on St Agnes.

With the odd Chiffchaff thrown in

Also had 3 Tree Pipit 

And 3 Sedge Warbler and Whitethroat at Lower Moors. At Trewice Higgo and I had 1 Redstart, 3 Spotted and 2 Pied Flycatcher and 30+Willow Warbler. The day before, Higgo found a Common Rosefinch on Bryher.

I ain't seen a Striped Hawkmoth for a few years so it was good to see this individual that Mick trapped in his garden at Longstones last week

On the same night he also trapped this Convolvulus Hawkmoth

Also this European Corn Borer  

And this Palpita vitrealis on Bobby 'Dazzler' Dawson jumper!

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Red Arrows return to Scilly!

A very rare moth for Scilly is this Black Arches and including this one, this is the 5th that Mick Scott has trapped in his Longstone garden.

 After work I went to see the Pectoral Sandpiper at Lower Moors and then made my ways to Mick Scott's to see some interesting moths that he had trapped in his garden at Longstone including a probable Oncocera semirubella, common name Rhubarb and Custard Moth, a Black Arches and 2nd Scilly record, semirubella.
  
  Earlier in the day at 15.00, the Red Arrows arrived for the second year running and took over the skies. They did some fly passes tightly together but Unfortunately after 15 minutes it was cut short as low cloud stopped play and they flew back to Cornwall where they had come from.

semirubella

Rhubarb and Custard Moth

Black Arches

Took these this evening in the dull light of the Pectoral Sandpiper at Lower Moors

I took all these photos of the Red Arrows from the golf course

 On the morning of the morning of the 25th I heard a Dotterel over the Garrison and spotted high up flying NE towards the golf course. Two days before I found a Wryneck on the track by Standing Stones field where a few connecting with it during it's three day stay. Otherwise for the this time of year it's pretty quiet and highlights have included a Hoopoe found by Graham Cundale, 25th, A Night Heron at Porth Hellick, 26-27th and up to 5 Wryneck have been noted in the last week and from the 19th, 2 Pectoral Sandpiper were at Porth Hellick one moving to Lower Moors. Yesterday, 2 Dotterel turned up at Shipmans Down Bryher and the Osprey over the Garrison the day before was at Porth Hellick.

A heavily cropped photo of the Dotterel high over the Garrison, 25th

Volucella zonaria

This vocal Night Heron spent two nights at Porth Hellick, 26-27th

Hobby yesterday over the Garrison

Yesterday I had 2 Spotted and 1 Pied Flycatcher on the Garrison. Also 4 Tree Pipit and a single Swift.

Up to 3 White Wagtail were at Lower Moors

There been up to 11 Grennshank at Porth Hellick

A warn out Song Thrush

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