Monday, 31 August 2026

Sunday 30th August

Ravenscar: 110 House Martins, 100 Swallows, plus a Golden Plover flew south.

Castle Hill: Caspian Gull, Mediterranean Gull, 3 Pied Flycatchers, Redstart, 15 Siskin.

Wykeham Lakes: Little Ringed Plover, 2 Common Sandpipers, 3 Little Egrets.

Long Nab: Merlin, 5 Wheatears, Whinchat, 4 Pied Flycatchers, Redstart,  Lesser Whitethroat.

Cloughton Wyke: 2 Arctic Skuas and a Manx Shearwater south. Raven, 3 Whinchats, 2 Stonechats.

Crossgates: 10 Curlews flew south. 

Scalby Mills: 3 juvenile Caspian Gulls (including a ringed Dutch, and a new Polish ringed bird).

Potter Brompton Carr: Hobby, Merlin (female), 2 Marsh Harriers, Greenshank.

Scalby Beck: 2 Swifts south.

Harwood Dale Lake: Kingfisher.

Gristhorpe Bay area: 64 Curlews, 111 Oystercatchers, 6 Dunlin, 2 Turnstones, 3 Little Egrets. Also Spotted Flycatcher, Redstart, Garden Warbler, 2 Whinchats, Wheatear, Yellow Wagtail.


Caspian Gull Scalby Mills - Chris Bell