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The quiet, blue-skied warm period continues, with a Tree Pipit briefly in Top Scrub this morning the pick of today’s sightings, where there were five Large Red Damselflies. On 5th, a Firecrest in Top Scrub was the fourth or fifth of the spring (an unusually high return), while 320 Herring Gulls were on the Brigg and

Today’s highlight was a female Hen Harrier which moved swiftly north and out across the sea at Gristhorpe Bay. Other notable records included a Tree Pipit which overflew the Tip, a Little Tern north, four Wheatears on Carr Naze and two Purple Sandpipers on the Brigg, while the Dams hosted a Little Ringed Plover, a

A Great Northern Diver and a Little Tern went north on this morning’s seawatch, while Common Sandpipers were at the Dams (two) and East Lea (two), with both White and Yellow Wagtails at the latter site and two singng Reed Warblers at the former, and three Wheatears on Carr Naze.  Yesterday’s (1st) highlight was undoubtedly

Today’s cold and blustery northerly saw four Manx Shearwaters north at the Gap. Yesterday (29th) a Great Skua and nine Sandwich Terns were the best of the seawatch and a Greenshank remained at the Dams, while on 28th the ringing team trapped a potentially interesting Chiffchaff (which we hope to provide more details of soon),

Today saw the year’s first Hobby west through East Lea, where a notable hirundine passage included 101 Swallows and 39 House Martins, as well as two Swifts. Linnets were on the move at the Gap this morning, with 314 north and 113 south, as well as 33 Swallows and five Yellow Wagtails through. 12 Common

The year’s first Common Swift was hawking over the town at dusk, while a Red Kite went south at Hunmanby Gap and c12 Wheatears were scattered across the area. White Wagtails went south at Reighton Sands and dropped into East Lea, the latter site also hosting the Greenshank and a female Pochard. The male Pochard

After lots of effort recently (with bonuses including two Firecrests and a Nuthatch), the FBOG ringing team really excelled themselves today with an extraordinary, perhaps unique, occurrence…. the story starts last May, when two Lesser Whitethroats were ringed in the same session on Top Scrub. Both stayed to breed, and then, incredibly, both were retrapped

Today’s clear highlight was the Nuthatch trapped by the ringing team in the early afternoon in Top Scrub – a local rarity and a big surprise! Also in the same area were two Redpoll, five Brambling and four Lesser Whitethroats. The year’s first Little Ringed Plover dropped in a the Dams before heading east, while

A welcome southerly airflow produced lots of variety today, with a Hooded Crow high and north-west over North Cliff, a Merlin low and in the same direction, another Firecrest trapped by the ringing team in Top Scrub first thing, an Osprey north over the sea past the Gap and then over North Cliff late morning,

A full count along North Cliff produced 174 Puffins and 12 Red-throated Divers as well as a Wheatear and 172 Linnets; small numbers of grounded migrants again included single figures of Chiffchaffs and Blackcaps in Top Scrub and elsewhere, with odd Willow Warblers, Swallows and Sand Martins, and a few Redwings and Fieldfares (a similar