Hooray
Waxwings are back in the news with 4
reported outside B&Q this morning and 2 in a garden on Stepney Drive. The Shore Larks were still present in the
vicinity of Crook Ness but today only 17 were counted.
Whilst
to the north of town the report from Long Nab today included a noisy
White-fronted Goose going south at 07.54, 58 Red-throated Divers moving of
which 35 went north and there were also 6 on the sea, 36 Common Scoter went
north, 3 Shelduck and 93 Black-headed Gulls went south.
Moving
south along the coast there were 2 Black Redstarts on Royal Albert Drive; a
Red-throated Diver in North Bay; in the Harbour a Great Northern Diver, a Black-necked
Grebe, a Guillemot and 2 Purple Sandpipers and in South Bay a Velvet
Scoter, a Red-throated Diver and 4 Mediterranean Gulls.
In
Langdale Forest the Great Grey Shrike
was still at Maw Rigg and there were 9 Crossbills there as well.
A
bit of late news concerns a Whooper Swan seen in the field by the access path
to Scalby Lodge Pond.
Finally
today there was a report of 2 White-beaked Dolphins at 15.55 off Marine Drive.
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| Whooper Swan - nr Scalby Lodge Pond - Pauline Dent |
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