A busier day locally, with a good arrival of migrants on a SE wind with early precipitation. Yellow-browed Warblers numbered at least eight, which included three at Hunmanby Gap and two in Top Scrub, while Ring Ouzels numbeed at least six (including three at the Tip). Seven Crossbills overflew the golf course pond early on
A Hawfinch was reported from Crescent Gardens, while the Gap had a busy first hour with 27 Crossbills, 30 Skylarks, 234 Goldfinches, 515 Siskins ans 21 Reed Buntings among final totals there. Further Crossbills overflew Gristhorpe Bay and the Dams, with two Arctic Terns and 40 Skylarks at the Brigg. The Dams continues to hold two
A Yellow-browed Warbler reported from Church Ravine was probably one of yesterday’s birds, while nine Crossbills, 96 siskins and 65 Linnets were the best of a quiet Gap. Two Greenshank and three Snipe continue at the Dams.
Two or possibly three Yellow-browed Warblers were in the seafront area today, with a handful of Bramblings and Redwings scattered. At the Gap, 30 Shelduck (a site record) and 16 Snipe were the best of an otherwise quiet vismig session.
A Yellow-browed Warbler – a long-overdue first of the season! – was by the golf course bridge today (surely more are in the area….). At the Gap, vismig highlights included a record 374 Skylarks north-east and 47 south-west, a Ring Ouzel (also the season’s first), 450 Redwings and 200 Pink-footed Geese. 66 Common Scoters and
Bird of the day was undoubtedly the Hawfinch in Long Lane frst thing, a less than annual visitor to the recording area. Otherwise 20 Redwings and five Fieldfares were in the Country Park area, with activities on the sea picking up late morning and including a Velvet Scoter, 350 Common Scoters, two Pintails, five Arctic
A busy morning at the Gap, with 280 Siskins, 120 Goldfinches, 100 Linnets, 110 Tree Sparrows, eight Swallows and three House Martins among vismig there, with a Brown Argus in a garden there in the aftertnoon. A group of 13 Red-breasted Mergansers headed south at the Brigg, where a juvenile Common Tern and a Sandwich
Two Slavonian Grebes spent the day in the north of the bay with a Red-breasted Merganser, a Tufted Duck, 15 Red-throated Divers and 70 Teal. Barnacle Geese were on the move, with 75 along the coast (and 68, likely mostly or all the same birds, past the Brigg). A Pomarine Skua, six Sooty and 16
On the sea, a Black Guillemot and 10 Pintail went north, with a Little Egret, 10 Bonxies, four Arctic Skuas past the Gap. Yesterday (1st), seven Sooty and nine Manx Shearwaters, three Velvet Scoters, 10 Great and five Arctic Skuas passed the Brigg, with eight Bonxies and a Sooty also past the Gap. The Dams
A relatively quiet but slightly more promising end to the month, with two Jays being the standout highlight at the Gap, and 95 Tree Sparrows and 1cy Yellow-legged Gull also passing by there. A Velvet Scoter and a Mediterranean Gull moved south offshore this afternoon. Yesterday (29th), 90 Pink-feet passed the Gap and 56 the