Scarborough Birders
Recording Area

LOOKING SOUTH FROM LONG NAB

KEY BIRDING SPOTS
Scalby Mills Check rocks for gulls, terns and waders Look up Scalby Beck from the footbridge; migrants often shelter there Check again at top of first hill.
Scalby Lodge Pond and Jackson's Bay Check the pond from the paths-it has an excellent record of rarities. Wildfowl are regular in August. Waders such as Greenshank and Bar-tailed Godwit can be found. On the seaward Waders include Turnstone, Oystercatchers, Ringed Plover, Purple Sandpipers may be on the rocks.  The scrub-filled gullies are frequented by Yellowhammers and in easterly winds, migrant passerines.
Cromer Point: At the water treatment works, a small pond often attracts ducks and waders. Continue to the sandy peninsular-Cromer Point. The rocks attract Sandwich, common and artic tern; Roseate tern is annual.
Long Nab: Continue north passing through Crook Ness (another ravine worth checking) before reaching the sea watching hut at Long Nab. Set up your scope and observe.  This is one Yorkshires finest sea-watching sites, but remember that conditions dictate bird movements. Gannets and Fulmars should be guaranteed, and Divers, Shearwaters and Skuas are likely.  Returning to Crook Ness (good for Tree Sparrow), take a look at the bushes and trees at Cliff Top Boarding Kennels, reached by walking a short distance to the first sharp bend. Do not enter the driveway. Scan the bushes and trees from the road for migrants. Now re-trace your steps along the coast. The change in the tide will often produce a host of different species.

OTHER SITES NEARBY
The Bird watcher's car Park at the Forge Valley(6 miles from Scarborough ),is excellent for woodland species.
Scarborough Mere GR TA 035860
Wykeham Lakes GR TA 985825
Raptor View Point GR TA 941890
Dalby Forest (Take the Whitby road from Thornton Le Dale).
(Map OS Landranger series 101)

COUNTRYSIDE CODE
Visitors to the area are requested to comply with the Countryside Code by keeping to the public footpaths and not damaging hedges. When rare species are located on private land access will be arranged with the Landowner.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
Key birding spots, the photograph of Jackson's Bay and the location map are reproduced with permission from BIRD WATCHING August 2002.