Scarborough Birders
Sightings

Sightings 2008

March 2008

01/03 Three Shelducks, Pink-footed Goose, Stonechat Scalby Lodge. Two Eiders Jackson's Bay.
04/03 Ad Med Gull Scalby Mills (colour ring PAU2). Twelve Pink-footed Geese Scalby Lodge.
06/03 5 Med Gulls at Holbeck (4 ads + 2w)

Med Gull (Dave Mansell)
Female Smew still at Wykeham Lakes. Three Whooper Swans in fields with nine Mute Swans West Ayton Carr.
18/03 Brent Goose and three Whooper Swans in fields near Wykeham Lakes.
21/03 Brent Goose Wykeham Lake

Brent Geese (Steve Race)

22/03 Female Common Scoter in the harbour this morning. Marine Drive (07.15-08.15) ; Red t Diver, 9 Common Scoter, 3 Eiders, 200 Fulmars, 80 Gannets.
23/03 Pink-footed Goose Scalby Lodge Pond, waders at high tide included 30 Redshank, Ringed Plover, 80 Oystercatcher, 51 Turnsone. Red-t Diver in the harbour. Chiffchaff Peasholm.
24/03 Ad Little Gull and Pink-footed Goose Scalby Lodge Pond. Two Shags off Marine Drive plus six flew north and three Red t Divers. Three Red t Divers around the harbour, 26 Purple Sandpipers and 40 Redshank at high tide. 
25/03 Knot, five Ringed Plovers, and three Pink-footed Geese Scalby Lodge Pond
26/03 Water Pipit and three Pink-footed Geese Scalby Lodge Pond. Red-breasted Merganser on the Mere, female Scaup at Burton Riggs. Four Pink-footed Geese Harwood Dale Lake
27/03 Two "Nordic" Jackdaws at Seamer Tip plus a 2w Glaucous Gull, Sand Martin and 3 Barn Owls.27/03 Blackcap and Chiffchaff near the Youth Hostel, Scalby Beck. Goshawks displaying in the forests. Four Mandarins Hilla Green.
28/03 Three Red-t Divers and G C Grebe around the harbour. Female Scaup still Burton Riggs. Dipper Wrench Green28/3 Sand Martin Ebberston
 Red-t Divers off Marine Drive/South Bay. G C Grebe in South Bay.

29/3 Two Sand Martins Scalby Beck. Sanderling South Bay. G C Grebe in the harbour still.
30/03 Shoveler and Dunlin Scalby Lodge Pond. Goldneye,22 Oystercatchers, and 44 Fieldfare Wykeham Lakes
31/3 Wheatear Scalby Lodge. Two White Wag