Saturday 18th April

The 5 Pink-footed Geese remain at Seamer Road Mere, where a Greylag was seen with 6 goslings. 50 Linnets, 5 Fieldfares, a Yellowhammer, a Heron and a Chiffchaff were on the caravan park side of Forge Valley. A Great Crested Grebe, a female Red-breasted Merganser and 3 Arctic Terns were in South Bay, and 8 Eider were seen heading south off Marine Drive. An Eider, 3 Common Scoter, 2 Whimbrel and 6 Curlew flew past Long Nab, and a Grasshopper Warbler was again in a large bramble patch at Scalby Nab. 2 Swallows were seen at the south end of Falsgrave Park, 6 Dunnocks were at Limestone Road, and a Merlin flew south over Cayton. Just 28 Common Gulls flew out east along Valley Road this evening.

Full count from Long Nab here: https://www.trektellen.nl/count/view/1074/20200418

Sparrowhawk - Jan and Gary Powell