Yorkshire trip 7- 10th May 2024

Male Marsh harrier

Sites Visited:

• Bempton Cliffs RSPB Reserve.
• Flamborough Head
• Filey Dams Yorkshire Wildlife Reserve
• Filey Brigg
• Wykeham Forest Raptor Watchpoint
• Rosedale, North York Moors.
• Tophill Low, Yorkshire Wildlife Reserve
• Burton Riggs, Yorkshire Wildlife Reserve
• North Cave Wetland, Yorkshire Wildlife Reserve.
• Blacktoft Sands, RSPB Reserve

Distance driven: 720 miles

Distance walked:  33.6 miles

Based in a guest house in Bridlington. £128 for the 3 nights. 

Garden Warbler (North Cave)

 Species list:

1. Mute swan
2. Greylag Goose
3. Canada goose
4. Shelduck (Filey Dams)
5. Mallard
6. Gadwall
7. Shoveler
8. Wigeon (Tophill Low)
9. Teal (Tophill Low)
10. Pochard (North Cave)
11. Tufted duck
12. Red Grouse (Rosedale)
13. Red legged partridge (Bempton)
14. Grey Partridge (Bempton)
15. Red throated diver (Flamborough Head)
16. Little grebe (Blacktoft Sands)
17. Great crested grebe (Tophill Low)
18. Fulmar (Bempton)
19. Gannet (Bempton)
20. Cormorant (Tophill Low)
21. Shag (Flamborough Head)
22. Bittern (heard, Blacktoft Sands)
23. Little egret (Tophill Low)
24. Grey heron
25. Spoonbill (Blacktoft Sands)
26. Red kite (A1)
27. Marsh Harrier (Blacktoft Sands)
28. Common buzzard
29. Kestrel
30. Hobby (North Cave)
31. Moorhen
32. Coot
33. Oystercatcher
34. Avocet (North Cave)
35. Little ringed plover (Tophill Low)
36. Lapwing (Rosedale)
37. Turnstone (Bridlington beach)
38. Redshank (Rosedale)
39. Curlew (Rosedale)
40. Black headed gull
41. Herring gull
42. Common gull (Filey Brigg)
43. Lesser black backed gull (Filey Dams)
44. Greater black backed gull (Filey Dams)
45. Kittiwake (Bempton)
46. Common tern (Tophill Low)
47. White winged black tern (North Cave)
48. Puffin (Bempton)
49. Guillemot (Bempton)
50. Razorbill (Bempton)
51. Stock dove (Bempton)
52. Wood pigeon
53. Collared dove
54. Feral Rock doves (Bempton)
55. Cuckoo (heard, (Tophill Low)
56. Short eared owl (Bempton)
57. Tawny Owl (Bridlington)
58. Barn Owl (Bempton)
59. Swift (Filey Brigg)
60. Green woodpecker (Wykeham Forest)
61. Great spotted woodpecker (Tophill Low)
62. Skylark
63. Sand martin (Filey Brigg)
64. Swallow
65. House martin
66. Meadow pipit
67. Pied wagtail
68. Dunnock
69. Robin
70. Wheatear (Rosedale)
71. Stonechat (Filey Brigg)
72. Song thrush
73. Mistle thrush
74. Blackbird
75. Garden warbler (North Cave)
76. Blackcap
77. Whitethroat
78. Sedge warbler
79. Cetti's warbler
80. Reed warbler
81. Willow warbler
82. Chiffchaff
83. Goldcrest (Tophill Low)
84. Firecrest (Bempton)
85. Wren
86. Great tit
87. Blue tit
88. Willow Tit (Wykeham Forest)
89. Coal tit (Wykeham Forest)
90. Long tailed tit
91. Magpie
92. Jay
93. Jackdaw
94. Carrion crow
95. Rook
96. Starling
97. House sparrow
98. Tree sparrow (Bempton)
99. Chaffinch
100. Linnet
101. Goldfinch
102. Greenfinch
103. Bullfinch (Wykeham Forest)
104. Reed bunting
105. Corn Bunting (heard, Bempton, seen in lanes around Tophill Low)
106. Yellowhammer

Photos:

Willow warbler

Common terns and a wigeon

Little ringed plover

Dreadful record shot of the rare White-winged Black Tern

Little egret

Grey heron

male Blackbird

Jackdaw suffering from feather mites around the eye.

Razorbill

Guillemot

Puffin

Barn owl

Fulmar

Flamborough Head

Shag

Gannet

Gannet

Sand martins

Tree sparrow

Bempton Cliffs

Fulmar

two Canada goose ganders, territorial dispute.

The vanquished......

.......and the victor

Filey beachfront from the top of Filey Brigg

Skylark

Linnet, male

Linnet, female

Canada goslings

Meadow pipit

Sand martin

Gannet