Sunday 5th April

 Highlights:

Thornton le Dale: White Stork flew east @ 15.40 hrs

Cockmoor Hall car park: 9 Brambling

Wykeham Lakes: 2 female Common Scoter, 6 Goldeneye, 2 Little Ringed Plovers, 2 Common Sandpipers, Marsh Harrier (2cy), 18 Sand Martins, 2 Swallows, Cetti's Warbler, Blackcap

Burton Riggs: Blackcap

Pickering: 2 Red Kites flew east

Jackson's Bay: 9 Sand Martins

Wykeham Forest: Osprey flew towards Troutsdale 14.55 hrs

Crossgates: House Martin

Troutsdale: Willow Tit

Sand Dale, Dalby Forest: Osprey at 17.40 hrs

Potter Brompton Carr: 4 Little Ringed Plovers, 6 Black-tailed Godwits, 2 Great White Egrets, Red Kite, Cetti's Warbler

White Stork Thornton le Dale - Joe Fryer

Saturday 4th April

 Highlights:

Marine Drive: Red-throated Diver

Scalby Beck: Willow Warbler

Johnson's Marsh: 2 Shelducks

Wykeham lakes: 3 female Common Scoters (Water Sports Lake), Shelduck, 2 Egyptian Geese, 2 Little Ringed Plovers, Red Kite, 10 Sand Martins, 2 Swallows, Cetti's Warbler, 2 Corn Buntings (East Lake)

Harwood Dale Lake: Little Ringed Plover, Swallow, 3 Sand Martins

Town Farm Pond, Cloughton: Barnacle Goose, Shelduck

Scar Wood: Raven, 2 Marsh Tits

Sutherbuff & Housedale Riggs, Dalby Forest: Green Woodpecker, 10 Chiffchaffs, 2 Crossbills

Burniston: Little Egret Burniston Beck

South Cliff: Nuthatch south along cliffs, 612 Meadow Pipits north

Reed Bunting Seamer Tip pool - Paul Tozer

Friday 3rd April

 Highlights:

Potter Brompton Carr: 30 Whooper Swans (flew north), Russian White-fronted Goose, Green Sandpiper, Willow Warbler, 2 Crossbills

Cloughton: Little Owl

Irton: male Hen Harrier flew across Irton-Ayton road

Seamer Road Mere: Russian White-fronted Goose

Peasholm Park: male Goosander

Kittiwakes back at castle Cliffs - Phil Bennett

Thursday 2nd April

 Highlights:

Staindale/Low Dalby: Hawfinch,  2 Green Woodpeckers, 8 Nuthatch, Goshawk, 13 Chiffchaffs

Ellerburn valley: Green Woodpecker, 5 Nuthatch, 11 Chiffchaffs

Seamer tip: Blackcap

Troutsdale: 2 Goshawks, 7 Buzzards, Peregrine, 2 Ravens

Siskin Seamer Road Mere - Paul Malton

Wednesday 1st April

 Highlights:

Staindale, Dalby Forest: 4+ Hawfinches, Blackcap, Coot, 2 Mandarins

Adderstone, Dalby Forest: Brambling

Jackson's Bay: 2 Purple Sandpipers

Peasholm Glen: Blackcap

Potter Brompton Carr: 3 Egyptian Geese, 3 Mandarins, Little Ringed Plover, Green Sandpiper, 5 Little Egrets, 4 Great White Egrets, 3 Marsh Harriers, 5 Sand Martins, Cetti's Warbler

Mowthorpe: Red Kite

Long Nab: 31 Pink-footed Geese flew NW

Wykeham Lakes: Female Common Scoter (Water Sports Lake), 7 Goldeneye, 2 Little Ringed Plovers, 3 Sand Martins

Wykeham Forest: singing Crossbill

Marine Drive: 2 Wheatears

Town Farm Pond, Cloughton: Barnacle Goose

Sea Cut (Ox Pasture Hall area): Green Woodpecker

Peasholm Park: male Goosander

Goldcrest Seamer Road Mere - Paul Tozer

Tuesday 31st March

 Highlights:

Jackson's Bay: Common Sandpiper, 2 Purple Sandpipers, 5 Sand Martins

Castle Cliffs: 200+ Kittiwakes

Spa Bridge: 20 Kittiwakes

Town: Kittiwakes on most urban colonies

Wykeham Lakes: 2 male Common Scoters (Water Sports Lake), 3 Little Ringed Plovers, Cetti's Warbler (climbing tower marsh), 31 Chiffchaffs, 8 Lesser Redpoll, 20 Siskins

Cockmoor Farm: 12 Brambling, Green Woodpecker

Wykeham Forest: "ringtail" Hen Harrier (Troutsdale), Goshawk, 10 Crossbills

Jugger Howe Moor: Red Kite

Long Nab: Shoveler flew north

Mistle Thrush Raincliffe Woods - Amanda Shepherdson.

Monday 30th March

 Highlights:

Long Nab: 2 Sandwich Terns flew south

Town Farm Pond, Cloughton: 2 Pink-footed Geese, Barnacle Goose, 4 Shelduck

Potter Brompton Carr: Russian White-fronted Goose, 2 Green Sandpipers

Wykeham Lakes: Barnacle Goose, 7 Goldeneye, 2 Little Ringed Plovers, 2 Sand Martins, Blackcap

Robin Raincliffe Woods - Stephen Beaver

Sunday 29th March

 Highlights:

Seamer Road Mere: Great White Egret

Wykeham Lakes: Shelduck, Wigeon, 9 Goldeneye, 2 Little Ringed Plovers, 2 Swallows, 3 Sand Martins

South Cliff: 1,233 Meadow Pipits flew north

Long Nab: Bar-tailed Godwit flew south

Seamer Tip Pool: Swallow, also Shelduck flew west

Scalby Mills: male Goosander

Hackness: Red Kite

Great White Egret Seamer Road Mere - Paul Malton

Saturday 28th March

 Highlights:

Wykeham Lakes: 3 Common Scoters (2m,1f East Lake), 24 Whooper Swans, 4 Swallows, 2 Sand Martins, 2 Corn Buntings

Long Nab: 7 Bar-tailed Godwits flew north, a Marsh Harrier flew south

Falling Foss: 5 Bramblings by the tea rooms

Peasholm Park: male Goosander, 2 Chiffchaffs

Wykeham Forest: Green Woodpecker, 11 chiffchaffs, Willow tit, 4 Marsh Tits, 29 Coal Tit, 5 Crossbills, 20 Siskins, Redpoll

Potter Brompton Carr: Egyptian Goose, 2 Shelduck, Marsh Harrier, 2 Shoveler, 3 Sand Martins

Chiffchaff Seamer Road Mere - Stephen Beaver

Friday 27th March

 Highlights:

Potter Brompton Carr: 60 Wigeon, Little Egret

Peasholm Park: male Goosander

Harwood Dale Lake: Mandarin

Long Nab: 35 Pink-footed Geese flew north

Wykeham Lakes: Egyptian Goose, 6 Goldeneye, 2 Common Scoter (female Water Sports Lake, plus female East Lake), 2 Oystercatchers, 3 Little Ringed Plovers, 9 Chiffchaff, Blackcap (female)

Little beck Wood : Blackcap

Common Buzzard Jugger Howe Moor - Stephen Beaver

Thursday 26th March

 Highlights:

Peasholm Park: male Goosander

Wykeham Lakes: Barnacle Goose, Common Scoter (female), 9 Goldeneye, 5 Oystercatchers

Salt Pans Road, Cloughton: Scandinavian Rock Pipit

Cockmoor Hall car park, Troutsdale: 10 Brambling

Scandinavian Rock Pipit Cloughton - Steve Hey

Wednesday 25th March

 Highlights:

Peasholm Park: Male Goosander

Potter Brompton Carr: 2 Shelduck, 67 Wigeon, Marsh Harrier, Red Kite

Scalby Beck: 2 Dippers

Crossgates: Sand Martin flew west

Town Farm Pond, Cloughton: 2 Russian White-fronted Geese, 2 Pink-footed Geese, Barnacle Goose

Burniston: 24 Yellowhammers, 7 Tree Sparrows

Seamer Tip Pool: Cetti's Warbler

Grey Wagtail Scalby Beck - Martin Moseley

Tuesday 24th March

 Highlights:

Town Farm Pond, Cloughton: 2 Russian White-fronted Geese, 2 Pink-footed Geese, Barnacle Goose, 2 Shelduck

Crossgates: 2 Goosanders flew west

Hilla Green: Willow Tit

Thornton Carrs: Whooper Swan

Wykeham Lakes: 2 Common Scoters (female Water Sports Lake, male East Lake)

Staindale Lake: Mandarin, Coot

Yellowhammer Cayton Bay - Paul Tozer

Monday 23rd March

 Highlights:

Eastfield: Red Kite south

Wykeham Lakes: Barnacle Goose, 2 Egyptian Geese, 17 Goldeneye, 3 Water Rails, 2 Little Ringed Plovers, 15 Chiffchaffs, Lesser Redpoll

Troutsdale: "Ringtail" Hen Harrier flew high east, Green Woodpecker

Long Nab: Water Rail still at Cliff Top House, Corn Bunting

Seamer Road Mere: Russian White-fronted Goose

Dalby Forest (Haygate): Green Woodpecker, 7 Crossbills, 10 Chiffchaffs, good numbers of Siskin

Cayton village: Blackcap

Blackcap Cayton - Paul Tozer

Sunday 22nd March

 Highlights:

Silpho: Wheatear

Long Nab: Red Kite south, 16 Whooper Swans flew north. A Jack Snipe present

Staindale Lake: Coot (scarce there)

Town Farm Pond, Cloughton: 2 Russian White-fronted Geese, 2 Pink-footed Geese, Barnacle Goose, 2 Shelduck, Goldeneye

Eastfield: Red Kite

Newby: Red Kite

Seamer Tip Pool: Shelduck, 3 Shoveler, Cetti's Warbler

Burton Riggs: Goosander, 4 Common Buzzards

Wykeham Lakes: 11 Common Scoter (8 Water Sports Lake + 3 East Lake), 3 Egyptian Geese, Black Redstart still by cafe

Potter Brompton Carr: 70 Wigeon, 35 Teal, Red Kite, Great White Egret, 4 Little Egrets, 2 Marsh Harriers

South Bay: 34 Kittiwakes, 2 Mediterranean Gulls

Ruston: Male Common Scoter picked up from road (currently at Whitby Wildlife Sanctuary)

Common Scoter Ruston - Graham Bilton

Saturday 21st March

 Highlights:

Long Nab: Jack Snipe, Water Rail, Shoveler flew south

Johnson's Marsh: 2 Shoveler

Stepney: 2 Blackcaps

Salt Pans Rd flash, Cloughton: 2 Russian White-fronted Geese, 2 Pink-footed Geese

Ox Pasture (Sea Cut); Green Woodpecker

Scalby Mills: Lbb Gull, 6 Kittiwakes

Thornton Carrs: Little Egret

Rock Pipit harbour - Paul Malton

Friday 20th March

 Highlights:

Troutsdale: Hawfinch

Staindale Lake: 3 Mandarins

Seamer Tip area: Mandarin

Hackness Lake: 2 Mandarins

Long Nab: 17 Redwing grounded left south, Great Northern Diver, 4 Puffins & 3 Eiders south

Scalby Beck: Sand Martin

Wykeham Lakes: Black Redstart, 5 Whooper Swans, 16 Goldeneye, 4 Little Ringed Plovers, Marsh Harrier, 18 Chiffchaffs, 6 Redwing, Lesser Redpoll

Cayton village: Blackcap

Siskin Stepney garden - Phil Bennett

Thursday 19th March

 Highlights:

Falsgrave: 5 Whooper Swans flew north

Wrench Green: 2 Ravens

Ravenscar: 3 Ravens

Wykeham Lakes: Common Crane flew south @ 12:50, 3 Little Ringed Plovers, 11 Goldeneye

Snainton: Common Crane flew west @ 13:14

Rillington: Red Kite

Burniston village: 17 Yellowhammers, 30 Goldfinch

Cormorant Throxenby Mere - Martin Moseley

Wednesday 18th March

 Highlights:

Cayton Bay: Black Redstart

Scalby Mills: 55 Wigeon

Wykeham Raptor Viewpoint: 8 Goshawks, Red Kite, 3 Ravens

Barrowcliffe: Red Kite drifted north

Eastfield: 2 Red Kites flew west

North Bay: Blackcap in garden

Low Dalby: 8 Tree Sparrows at feeder

Eastfield: Chiffchaff singing Westway

Great Tit Raincliffe Woods - Stephen Beaver

Tuesday 17th March

 Highlights:

Long Nab: 10 Golden Plovers flew west, Snipe, Stonechat

Seamer Tip Pool: Shoveler,  Cetti's Warbler, 5 Chiffchaffs

Wykeham Lakes (East Lake): 2 Shoveler, 8 Goldeneye, 4 Lbb Gulls, 5 Mute Swans

Cayton Bay: 4 Chiffchaffs

Ox Pasture Hall: Red Kite flew west

Dalby Forest (Ellerburn/Sand Dale): 7 Chiffchaffs, 2 Fieldfare

Shoveler Wykeham Lakes - Steve Hey

Monday 16th March

 Highlights:

Long Nab: A Red Kite and Sand Martin flew north

Burton Riggs: Sand Martin

Boggle Hole: Eider

Potter Brompton Carr: 12 Russian White-fronted Geese, Merlin, Jack Snipe, 19 Snipe, Dunlin, 3 Great White Egrets, 3 Little Egrets, 5 Chiffchaffs

Salt Pans Rd, Cloughton: 2 Russian White-fronted Geese, 2 Pink-footed Geese, Barnacle Goose

Newlands Dale: Little Grebe, Chiffchaff

Wykeham Lakes: 27 Goldeneye, 7 Snipe, 3 Lbb Gulls, 5 Chiffchaffs

Seamer Rd Mere: 5 Chiffchaffs

Chiffchaff Seamer Road Mere - Paul Tozer

Sunday 15th March

 Highlights:

Thornton le Dale: A Northern Treecreeper along Priestman's Lane

Scarborough South Cliff: Tundra Bean Goose, Red-breasted Merganser, Brambling, Corn Bunting south. 5 Whooper Swans, 256 Meadow Pipits north. 4 Mediterranean Gulls present

Long Nab: Corn Bunting flew south

Burniston: 13 Yellowhammers in a garden

Salt Pans Road flash, Cloughton: 2 Russian White-fronted Geese, 2 Pink-footed Geese, Barnacle Goose

Newby: Blackcap in garden

Thornton Carrs: 2 Snipe, 2 Chiffchaffs, Tree Sparrow

Wykeham Forest: singing Crossbill, Woodcock

Scalby Mills: Lbb Gull

Wykeham East Lake: 5 Whooper Swans (fields), 14 Goldeneye

Cayton Bay: Great Crested Grebe, Red-throated Diver

Troutsdale: 3 Mandarin, Dipper, Marsh Tit

Allerston: Red Kite

Northern Treecreeper Thornton le Dale - Will Scott

Saturday 14th March

 Highlights:

Long Nab: Red Kite flew south

Flixton/Folkton Carrs: Little Egret, 2 Curlew, 9 Chiffchaffs, 2 Redpoll, 10 Tree Sparrow

Marine Drive: 30 Kittiwakes offshore

Ellerburn Bank: Green Woodpecker, Crossbill, 22 Tree Sparrows

Raincliffe Woods: 2+ Crossbills, large flock of Siskin

Potter Brompton Carr: 27 Russian White-fronted Geese

Wykeham Raptor Viewpoint: 3 Goshawks, Crossbill

Hilla Green, Troutsdale: Mandarin, Dipper

Town Farm Pond, Cloughton:  Shelduck

Salt Pans Road flash, Cloughton: 2 Russian White-fronted Geese, 2 Pink-footed Geese

Red Kite Long Nab - Chris Bell

Friday 13th March

 Today's highlights:

Salt Pans Rd flash, Cloughton: 3 Russian White-fronted Geese, Barnacle Goose, 2 Pink-footed Geese

Long Nab; 2 Lbb Gulls moved past

Dalby Forest (Haygate): 3 Crossbills, 11 Fieldfare, 14 Siskin

Peasholm Park: 2 Goosanders

Gadwall Seamer Road Mere - Gary & Jan Powell

Thursday 12th March

 Today's highlights:

Peasholm Park : 2 Goosanders

Seamer Tip Pool: Barnacle Goose, 4 Shoveler, 3 Oystercatchers

Salt Pans Road flash, Cloughton: 3 Russian White-fronted Geese, Barnacle goose, 22 Greylag Geese

Harwood Dale Lake: 52 Wigeon, 18 Teal, 2 Oystercatchers

Wykeham Lakes/Long Causeway Rd: 26 Mute Swans, Whooper Swan, Egyptian Goose, Red Kite, 2 Chiffchaffs, 2 Redwing

Whooper Swans Wykeham Lakes - Chris Bell

Wednesday 11th March 2026

Highlights

Peasholm Park - 2 Goosander (male and female)

Wykeham Nursery - Cockmoor Hall -  1 Immature Peregrine, 1 Willow Tit, 2 Marsh Tit

Wykeham Raptor View Point - 8 Goshawk, Red Kite, 2 Raven, 8 Golden Plover (flew west)

Wykeham Lakes (East Lake): 5 Whooper Swans, 9 Mute Swans, Goldeneye

Dalby Forest (Adderstones) : 26 Song Thrush feeding in field with 2 Mistle Thrush, 9 Siskin, Marsh Tit

Scar Wood: Chiffchaff, Nuthatch

Potter Brompton Carr: 27 Russian White-fronted Geese, Little Egret, Great White Egret, 3 Marsh Harriers, 500 Starling

Wigeon, Scalby Mills, Mark Hepples (09/03/2026)

Tuesday 10th March 2026

Highlights

Burniston Garden - 10 Yellowhammers

Burniston - Red Kite (south)

Scalby Mills - 56 Wigeon

Open Air Theatre - 1 Chiffchaff

Peasholm Glen- Chiffchaff, Treecreeper, Long-tailed Tits (Facebook)

Woodlands - 2 Common Cranes (drifting north)

Raincliffe Woods - 30 Redwing

Seamer Tip Ponds / Taylor Way - 3 Tree Sparrows, 1 Chiffchaff, 1 Shoveler Duck

Flixton - Red Kite

Wykeham Lakes / North Yorkshire Water Park - East Lake - 5 Whooper Swan (fields to east), 12 Wigeon, 23 Cormorants, 5 Goldeneye, 6 Tufted Duck, 5 Great Crested Grebe, 3 Chiffchaff

Wykeham Lakes / North Yorkshire Water Park - Sports Lake - 4 Egyptian Geese, 1 Immature Greater Scaup, 13 Goldeneye, 3 Gadwall

Wykeham Raptor View Point - 3 Goshawk

Wykeham Nursery - 2 Red Kites (south), 150 Golden Plover (north)

Ellerburn - 1 Red Kite, 25 Tree Sparrow, 4 Lapwings (2 pairs on territory)

Barn Owl, Star Carr Farm, Paul Malton

Monday 9th March 2026

Highlights

Long Nab, 1 Golden Plover, 1 Woodcock, 2 Chiffchaff, 1 (female) Merlin

Marine Drive - Eider Duck

Crossgates - 5 Whooper Swan (south)

Burton Riggs, 2 Gadwall, 1 Chiffchaff, 5 (1st Winter) Mute Swans, 6 Tufted Duck

Brompton Ponds - 1 Little Egret, 4 Coot

Low North Camp - 2 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 1 Green Woodpecker, 1 Chiffchaff, 1 Woodcock

Garth End Road, West Ayton - 5 Whooper Swan

Pexton Pond, Dalby - 1 Woodcock, 1 Crossbill

Haygate, Dalby (grey walk circuit) - 1 Goshawk, 1 Green Woodpecker, 1 Marsh Tit, 2 Treecreepers, 6 Fieldfare, 2 Mistle Thrush, 3 Song Thrush 

Dalby - Willow Tit (Facebook)

Jackson's Bay - Grey Plover

Willow Tit, Dalby, David Hutchinson

Whooper Swans, Garth End Road, West Ayton, Chris Bell (08/03/2026

Sunday 8th March 2026

Highlights

Stepney Gardens - 6 Siskin, 5 Greenfinch

Cayton Garden - 1 Blackcap (Facebook)

Garth End Road, Ayton - 5 Whooper and 7 Mute Swans

Wykeham Lakes / North Yorkshire Water Park - East Lake, 10 Wigeon, 38 Mallard, 5 Great Crested Grebe, 21 Goldeneye, 2 Tufted Duck,1 Lesser Black-backed Gull, 3 Chiffchaffs, 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker

Wykeham Lakes / North Yorkshire Water Park - Sports Lake - 2 Chiffchaffs, 1 Goldeneye, 11 Coot

Potter Brompton Carr -Haybridge Only - 22 Greylags, 1 Egyptian Goose, 53 Snipe, 140 Common Gull, 10 Golden Plover, 48 Teal, 10 Gadwall, 42 Stock Dove, 3 Little Egret, 3 Great White Egret, 850 Starlings, 1 Brambling, 40 Linnet, 30 Yellowhammer, 60 Lapwing, 22 Skylark (ebird report)

Male Blackcap, Cayton Garden, Paul Tozer

Saturday 7th March 2026

 Highlights

South Cliff - 734 Chaffinches flew south. Marsh Harrier flew north. One Mediterranean Gull present.

Harbour - Great Northern Diver

Wykeham, Long Causeway - 1 Great White Egret

Ruston Carr Bridge - 1 Great White Egret

Sherburn Ings - 2 Lesser Black-backed Gulls

Cayton Carrs - 1 Red Kite

Troutsadale (near new ponds) - 2 Crossbills

Nabgate, Dalby - 2 Goshawk, 9 Common Buzzard, 1 Green Woodpecker, 1 Jay, 5 Chiffchaff, 1 Willow Tit, 4 Marsh Tit, 20 Siskin, 1 Crossbill

Great Northern Diver, Harbour, Andy Messenger

Friday 6th March 2026

Highlights

Stepney - Tawny Owl

Wykeham Lakes / North Yorkshire Water Park - Sports Lake - 1 Immature Greater Scaup, 8 Goldeneye

Wykeham Lakes / North Yorkshire Water Park - East Lake - 8 Teal, 5 Whooper Swans in fields (HGarth End Road)

Nabgate, Dalby- 2 Ravens

Grey Heron, Johnsons Marsh, Martin Moseley