Isles of Scilly - Day Six
The best day of the trip. The day started clear and mild and that's how it remained for much of the day. After a fruitless walk around the Garrison, I headed to the quay for the short trip across to St Agnes. The Greenish Warbler from the day before was still present and showed brilliantly in the sunlight, flitting along the tops of the laurel bushes, dashing into pines, and calling a couple of times. A very strong mono-syllabic ' sweet '. Very Pipit-esque. A Firecrest was also present here. Shortly after I thankfully bumped into David Bradshaw and proceeded to walk down to see the juvenile Red-backed Shrike that was equally as showy. He kindly invited me back to his digs at Porth Killier joined by Jamie Partridge sitting in the warm sun in almost exactly the same spot four years ago on my first visit to the Isles. That time it was shortly after a serious flare-up of my UC. The visit to the Scillies had expedited my recovery immeasurably...