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Sightings 2007

December 2007

01/12 Desert Wheatear & Water Pipit still Cromer Point, also 2 Lapland Buntings briefly. Black-throated Diver in harbour. Black-throated Diver Wykeham Lakes (private site). 11 Whooper Swans Flotmanby Carr. 12 Pink-footed Geese Scalby Lodge.
02/12 Desert Wheatear still. Both Black-throated Divers still present.
03/12 Desert Wheatear, Water Pipit Cromer Point. Black-throated Diver in harbour.
04/12 Desert Wheatear still Cromer Point. 45 Snow Buntings Long Nab & Glaucous Gull flew south. 15 Whooper Swans Folkton Carr Lane area. Green Sandpiper & Water Rail River Hertford Flixton Carr.
05/12 Desert Wheatear, Lapland Bunting & 2 Snow Buntings Cromer Point.

Desert Wheatear (Dave Mansell)

06/12 Desert Wheatear still at Cromer Point.
07/12 Desert Wheatear and Snow Bunting Cromer Point. Black-throated Diver and 20 Purple Sandpipers harbour. Two Waxwings at Folkton 09.40 hrs by the main road.
08/12 Desert Wheatear & Snow Bunting Cromer Point. Black-throated Diver harbour.
09/12 A Northern Wheatear joined the Desert Wheatear at Cromer Point today. Also two Snow Buntings & Water Pipit and Rock Pipit there. A juv Pomarine Skua chasing gulls off Scalby Mills at 10.30 am, probably left north. White-fronted Goose at Scalby Lodge Pond with the Greylags/Canadas. Water Rail still at Northstead Manor Gardens. Black-throated Diver in the harbour & Blackcap in a garden at Westwood.
10/12 Desert & Northern Wheatears plus Water Pipit at Cromer Point. Black-throated Diver harbour.

Water Pipit (Dave Mansell)

Rock Pipit (Dave Mansell)

Northern Wheatear (Dave Mansell)

11/12 Desert Wheatear still Cromer Point. Five Goosanders at The Mere.
12/12 Desert Wheatear still present.Two Snow Buntings Ravenscar.
13/12 Black-throated Diver still at Wykeham Lakes( private site). Desert Wheatear by Cromer Pond this morning.
14/12 Desert Wheatear & Water Pipit Cromer Pond. Goosander Scalby Mills. Pink-footed Goose Scalby Lodge Pond.700+ Brambling & 100 Crossbills Flax Dale, Dalby Forest.
15/12 Desert Wheatear still. Black-throated Diver harbour. Four Red-throated Divers North Bay. 25 Crossbills & 110 Siskins Harwood Dale Forest
16/12 Slavonian Grebe off Cromer Point.
Desert Wheatear Cromer Point. Black-throated Diver harbour. Nine Red-throated Divers North & South Bays. RB Merganser Scalby Mills. Five Med Gulls Holbeck (4 ads + 2w), also three Knot on rocks. Water Rail still feeding with Moorhens at Northstead Manor Gardens.
 

Black-throated Diver (Dave Mansell)

17/12 Long Nab (09.15-10.15): 15 Red t Divers past, 2 Fulmars. Desert Wheatear still. Black-throated Diver in harbour. Wykeham Lakes (private site): redhead Smew, Black-throated Diver, 8 Gadwall, 2 Goldeneye, Shelduck, 4 Whooper Swans, 1w Glaucous Gull & ad Yellow-legged Gull in roost. 550 Brambling & 30 Crossbills Flax Dale, Dalby Forest.
18/12 Desert Wheatear still Cromer Point. Black-throated Diver Harbour. Nine Red-throated Divers Cloughton to Cayton Bay, also 9 Shags, 6 Eiders, but only one Guillemot. 60 Fulmars Cloughton Wyke. Pink-footed Goose Scalby Lodge.
19/12 Desert & Northern Wheatears still at Cromer Point. Two Short-eared Owls Star Carr. First-winter Iceland Gull & adult Yellow-legged Gull in Wykeham gull roost, also Black-throated Diver still there. Twelve Whooper Swans Seamer Carr
20/12 Redhead Smews at Scalby Lodge Pond and Wykeham Lakes (private site). Black-throated Divers at the harbour and Wykeham Lakes. 13 Whooper Swans at Willerby Carr. Iceland Gull at Scalby Lodge Pond.

Whooper Swans (Steve Race)
 

21/12 Both Wheatears still at Cromer Point. Redhead Smew again this afternoon at Scalby Lodge Pond. Black-throated Diver in harbour. Red-breasted Merganser Scalby Mills. First-winter Glaucous Gull in Wykeham roost, Smew and Black-throated Diver still. Goshawk over Troutsdale.
22/12 Desert and Northern Wheatears by the Water Treatment Buildings this morning.
23/12 Desert Wheatear by Water Treatment Works mid morning. Smew at Scalby Lodge Pond this morning, also 19 Pink-footed Geese, Pochard, 5 Gadwall
24/12 Desert Wheatear just inland from Cromer Point.
25/12 Desert & Northern Wheatears still at Cromer Point, plus 8 Snow Buntings, Water Pipit and a first-winter Iceland Gull flew south
26/12 Desert & Northern Wheatears still Cromer Point plus Water Pipit at Cromer Pond. 22 Pink-footed Geese Scalby Lodge
27/12 Desert Wheatear & Northern Wheatear Cromer Point, plus Water Pipit at Cromer Pond. Redhead Smew at Scalby Lodge Pond & 22 Pink-footed Geese. Black-throated Diver in the harbour.

Smew Pink-footed Goose (Steve Race)

28/12 Smew still at Scalby Lodge Pond this morning. Both Wheatears & Water Pipit Cromer Point. Black-throated Diver harbour.
29/12 Both Wheatears Cromer Point. White-fronted Goose and 20 Pink-footed Geese Scalby Lodge. Scaup Burton Riggs. Five Goosanders and 4 Gadwall on The Mere.
30/12 Female Scaup still at Burton Riggs. Both Wheatears, Water Pipit still Cromer Point. White-fronted Goose and 7 Snow Buntings Scalby Lodge Pond. R B Merganser Scalby Mills, Water Rail Northstead Manor Gardens. Black-throated Diver harbour. Nine Whooper Swans and Green Sandpiper Flotmanby Carr. 14 Mandarins Hackness Lake. 14 Crossbills Langdale Forest, west of School Farm.
31/12 Black-throated Diver at harbour taken into care. Desert Wheatear still present. Redhead Smew still at Wykeham Lakes (private site). Eight Gadwall at The Mere, 90 Fieldfare Flixton


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


 

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