Seeing as there was potentially 2 Scilly ticks on St.Agnes I paid another visit over there but before the boat I popped into Porthcressa where a Black Redstart was flicking about on the rocks at Little Porth end
On Aggy I had much better and less crowded/stressful views of the Mourning Dove along with Mike Illet who’d twitched over for it. He then found another Black Redstart at Bergecooth before we went our separate ways.
At Troy Town farm I noticed a Clouded Yellow fluttering in the fields where the Eastern Orphean Warbler was first seen back in 2018 but this was of the form Helice as it had a large patch of white in the wing my first of this subspecies.
By the post office I found a brief Yellow-browed Warbler before I headed back to the dove to meet Brendon Fagan, Brendon Glynn, Dave Johnson and Geoff Goater who’d also come to twitch the dove.
As the Hoopoe had finally departed we all wandered down Barnaby Lane where they caught up with the American Pipit and then I year ticked the Lapland Bunting that was in the NE corner of Wingletang. At the Parsonage I came across a Spotted Flycatcher before I headed to Porth Killier where I found 2 more Firecrest in the hedge above the beach and then had 7 Redwing go over which were my first of the autumn.
Sadly the 2 Scilly ticks weren’t forthcoming.
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