Recorder Nick Addey’s computer is not very well, so please email your sightings to me please at steverace1@me.com - many thanks.

RECENT SIGHTINGS

08.03.10

Six Shags in South Bay. Coot and Pochard at Scalby Lodge Pond.

07.03.10

Two Great Grey Shrikes in Langdale Forest, one near Blakey Topping, the other at Maw Rigg. Both were mobile, only seen briefly.

06.03.10

A White-fronted Goose flew in to Wykeham Lakes from the east mid-morning with 12 Pink-footed Geese. Also 3 Barnacle Geese and Long-tailed Duck still there plus Goosander, 3 Goldeneye, and 5 Gadwall. Two Little Egrets flew out of a ditch just south of Folkton Sewage Farm. Nine Dunlin and 2 Ringed Plovers on flood water at Cayton Carr. Three Goshawks, 2 Common Buzzards, Green Woodpecker, and c20 Crossbills in one hour at Highwood Brow, Wykeham Forest late morning. Willow Tit at the "shrike clearing".

Dipper at Wrench Green. Stonechat behind Marine Drive wall. 22 Wigeon and 3 Red-throated Divers flew north past Marine Drive in 30 mins. A first-winter Med Gull (colour ring) at Scalby Mills, also LBB Gull. 4+ Med Gulls at Holbeck (3 ads + 2-w). 23+ Kittiwakes in South Bay plus small flocks moving south along the coast. 24 Whooper Swans plus 16 Greylags and a pair of Canada Geese at Low Marishes.

05.03.10

Floodwaters at Low Marishes held 5 Whooper Swans, 330 Wigeon, 17 Pintail, and 4 Gadwall. Green Sandpiper seen from a train near Low Scampston. 820 Wigeon at Scalby Mills. Three Goosanders, 2 Pochard and 2 Great-crested Grebes at Seamer Road Mere. Four Teal, 2 Wigeon, 2 Oystercatchers Harwood Dale Lake. 200 Fieldfares and 25 Golden Plover Wykeham Ings Lane. 6 Little Grebes Hackness Lake.

03.03.10

Two Buzzards and 23 Golden plover at Low Park Farm, Ebberston.