2005 - Whitby Naturalists

o l8th May, Bullfinches at Upper Eskdaie; Goshawk at Uppcr Eskdale
also at Westerdale.
o {Q,t'June, a Cuckoo was heard at Casdeton and Comrnondale.
o l8,h June, Red-legged Partridge at Sandsend reporrcd by Yorkshire
Naturalists' Uruon; three young Jackdaws at Pannai Close.
c /i'a June, A nesr of Dunnocks at Pannal Ciose; Yellow hamrners at
Guistrorough Road, Whiib),.
o 6,h July, two young thrushes rn a Sleights garden.
c /l"rJuly, four hundrcd to five hundred Kirtiwakes nesting on cliffs
at Skinningrove.
t 24h September, a Heron by the river Esk at Casdeton.
o lJtr,septenrirer, Peregrinc at Selly Hill reported by Mrs Broderick.
r Septenrber and October, rwenty Goldfrnches often sighted in the
Upgattg Ravinc and the Mulgrave Rcrad area.
o JLh October, many l-ong-tailed tits at Sandsend.
o 15m October, Marsh tit in a garden in Highfield Road,
. 17*"Or:tober, Reed bunting in a garden in Sieights.
. 19,n Octcrber, a Jay eating ant-s in the Carr Hill Lane area.
. T4eOctober, *rec Rcdwings in St. Andrew's Road.
o 26a Octc.,trer, about one hundred and thirty geese flying south over
Whitbyveryhigh.
. Z8,t'October, two hunclred and ffi gecse flying over \X,tlutby.
o 30,t' and 31" Octcrber, A Ring Ouzel was siglrted in a garden in
Stainsacre.
Other birds recorded
C-nreen'Woodpeckers aiong most of the Esk valiey, Sandsend, Briggswath,
Rtiswarp Carrs and'S(est Bamby;
Great Spotted \ff/oodpeckers at Briggswath, W'est Bamby and Crow \focxl,
Dar-rby;
C'rey \fagtails, sighted at Sleights, ltzlulgrave old casde walls and1hornton
Bcck;
Pled Wagtails, two at Perry's Garden Centre;
Yeliow Wagtail spotted at Carr Hill Lane (this species could have been on
its way tc-l win[er inAfrica).