January 2010
Sunday 24th
Barmston 40 R-t.Diver, 26 G.C.Grebe, 45 Wigeon, 50 Oystercatcher.
Woodmansey: Goosander Barmston fisheries
Tophill Low : Peregrine Watton Carr. 15 Siskin c'pk. Brambling: 2 centre+4 D wood.
Bittern, redhead Smew Watton NR.
South Cave Area : 2 Buzzard, 1 Red Kite, 1 Jay, couple of Coal tits
Figham Area : Skylark, Snipe, 10+ Reed Bunting, 2 Little Grebes
At Paull Village a Grey wagtail was feeding along sea wall and towards BP and a Rock Pipit was present.
Saturday 23rd
High Eske : Fieldfare 100, Greylag Goose 450, Canada Goose,Pink-footed Goose 2, Mallard 200, Redshank 20, Wigeon 220,
Little Grebe 5, Goldeneye 7, Gadwall 15, Teal 10, Tufted Duck 35, Coot 35, Pochard 2, Moorhen 3, Great Crested Grebe 3, Shoveler 3,
Arram Carr Whooper Swan 11, Mute Swan 45,
Tophill Low : Redhead Smew O res. Woodcock centre feeders
Bittern on Watton NR
Green Sandpiper in SW Corner of Figham Common
Paull Holme Strays 75 Black tailed Godwit, 12 Bar tailed Godwit, 2 Little egret, 2 Sanderling, 500 Lapwing, 800 Dunlin and from carpark a woodcock flew past. Near Paull Fort a Brambling fed with Chaffinch and 22 Redwing were present.
Friday 22nd
Tophill Low : redhead Smew O res. Brambling +Treecreeper at centre feeders.
Bransholme Sewage Works : Gadwall: 31, Pochard: 9, Shoveler: 16, Tufted Duck: 25, Coot: 75, Mute Swan: 2, Mallard: 61, Canada Goose: 6.
Thursday 21st
Tophill Low : redhead Smew sightings from O res and D res may relate to two birds, Bullfinch and Brambling also on view.
Little Owl sightings from Etton and Lockington and Barn Owl sightings from Withernwick and Lockington
A Blackcap was in a Beverley Garden
Wednesday 20th
Tophill Low : Kingfisher heard on Barmston Drain, and over South Marsh East, where 5 Redshank were too. Curlews heard from Baswick Carr. Willow tit on feedersand numerous Brambling both here and at the wildlife centre. Treecreeper seen in woodlands. Siskin was bathing in the centre pond with around 5 Redwing. Female Smew on O res and the Bittern showed again - this time under the L shaped hide over-looking South Marsh West. 4 Mistle Thrushes, Grey Wagtail, Lesser Black Backed Gull. From the approach Road - One Barn Owl near new Chicken Farm
Arram Carrs : 11 Whooper Swans
High Eske : 111 Redshank
Tuesday 19th
East Park : Highlights today include Goosander c.17, Lesser Redpoll 1 (near cafe ), Redwing 20+
Garganey still on Fosse Hill jet ski pit.
30+ Redwing Cottingham along Priory Rd +2 Grey Heron in wet fields. and a Blackcap in an observers garden
Monday 18th
Skirlington : 102 Greylag, 204 Canada Geese, 144 Pink-feet, Pochard, Tufted Duck.
Foss Hill : Garganey, G C Grebe, Little Grebe.
Tophill Low : Smew O res, Woodcock South Marsh Area, 30 Curlew circled SMW before landing on adjacent field
Watton Nature reserve : The Bittern flew in at noon and landed out of view close to Barmston Drain
Sunday 17th
Immediately following the improvement in the weather, several birds are now singing in North Hull: Blackbird, Dunnock, Blue Tit, Great Tit and Collared Dove.
Foss Hill Jet Ski Ctr.an unseasonal record of a Drake Garganey,
Tophill Low: Pair Smew O res, 1 Willow Tit & 2 Brambling D wood. 4 Pink-feet Approach Rd., Woodcock, Water Rail, Kingfisher, Goldcrest
Arram Carrs : 11 Whooper Swans
Watton Nature Reserve: 1 Bittern walking on the ice.
Atwick to Barmston: 7 Red-throated Diver, 16 Wigeon, 4 Cormorant.
Barmston: 91 Oystercatcher, 91 Ringed Plover, 7 Grey Plover, 17 Redshank, 6 Sanderling, 6 Curlew, 3 Bar-tailed Godwit, 6 Lapwing, 1 Golden Plover, 1 Mistle Thrush.
Far Grange: 14 Canada Geese, 1 Greylag.
Skirlington: 1 Ruddy Shelduck, 1 White-fronted Goose, 2 Pink-feet, 180 Greylag, 120 Canada Geese, 1 Pochard, few Tufted Duck.
Bewholme: 170 Wigeon, 100 Teal, 2 Shoveler.
Atwick- Near gas facility: 460 Pink-feet came in from the Nth.
Leven Bypass: 140 Greylag, 5 Goldeneye.
North Frodingham: 2 Mute Swan.
Brantingham :Greater spotted woodpecker drumming on TV aerial, 1 Buzzard calling
Walkington :1 Woodcock flew over.
Barmston : Flock of Barnacle Geese over
Woodmansey: Drake Goosander flew north along the drain and over Plaxton Bridge at 1540 hrs. A Merlin flew west over Beverley Barmston Drain, about 400 metres south of Plaxton Bridge. Also along the drain between Plaxton Bridge and Dunswell: 1 Barn Owl, 1 Sparrowhawk, 1 Kestrel, 3 Shoveler and 3 Grey Heron. In Woodmansey a male Yellowhammer and Goldcrest
Saturday 16th
Tickton High Eske Area :On flooded fields between Tickton and High Eske: 6 Teal, 60 Lapwing, 8 Redshank, 12 Golden Plover, 3 Shoveler, 20 Wigeon. On River Hull between Tickton and High Eske: 5 Little Grebes
High Eske: 8 Goldeneye, 1 Goosander, 1 Kingfisher, 1 Great-spotted Woodpecker, c. 300 Wigeon, c. 30 Tufted Duck, c. 4 Great Crested Grebes. Large herd of Mute Swan (c. 70) west of river adjacent Pulfin Bog.
Friday 15th
Tophill : Drake Smew, 750 Black-headed Gull, 1400 Common Gull, 192 Herring Gull, 230 Great Black-backed Gull, 6000 Jackdaw, 1100 Rook, 240 Linnet. Sparrowhawk, Kestrel, Lapwing, Curlew, 2 Great Spotted Woodpeckers.
Bransholme Sewage Works: 15 Pochard, 36 Canada Geese, 6 Shoveler, another vociferous group of Carrion Crows, (most of which were on the ice) with 169 counted on this ocassion.
Thursday 14th
East Park : Wigeon,Shoveler, Pochard - 18 drakes, 4 females, Goosander 14, Cormorant - one over heading south, Redwing 3,G S Woodpecker, Coal Tit - one singing male
Tophill Low : Both Smew on 'O' today, Brambling in car park, Willow Tit on feeders, and Bittern was seen on the river bank by regulars at Top lock - sat stationary for 10 minutes before flying a wide loop into phragmities beds near lagoons.
c70 Brent Geese Nth of Car Park Barmston
Of interest a colour ringed Cormorant seen at Tophill in November 2007 has had its origin revealed, It was rung at Forvie, Newburgh, NE Scotland (South stacks) on 28/6/07 and has spent much of its life in northern Scotland before turning up on the reserve.
Wednsday 13th
Tophill Low : Drake Smew on O with the drake Mandarin reported again. Red-head Smew on D. Brambling in Car Park and 20 Redwing through. Treecreeper opposite wildlife centre. 2 Woodcock Southern Site and 2 Barn Owl hunting Watton NR.
Tuesday 12th
Tophill Low : Brambling in Car Park and Peregrine Falcon over. Brambling, Grey Wagtail, 2 Redwing. around D Res South hide, and various Goldeneye displaying on D Res. Willow tit on feeders and Barn owl in the vicinity. Another Barn Owl was sat in the Watton NR boxes. Bullfinch on North Marsh. Red-head Smew on 'D' Res last thing, along with a rare sighting of a Shag amongst the cormorants.
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Monday 11th
Tophill Low : Willow tit on D woods feeders
Sunday 10th
Atwick Mill: 31 Pink-footed Geese
Hornsea Mere: 3-4 Woodcock
Tophill Low: a Slavonian Grebe was on the Reservoirs, along with a pair of Smew and a Woodcock in D woods.
4 Whooper Swans at Arram Carrs
Saturday 9th
Hornsea Mere : Ruddy Shelduck still with Barnacle goose flock, 2-3 Woodcock; all 1st/2nd field. Peregrine over W end.
Swinemoor: 9 Grey Partridge, 2 Woodcock, 1 Water Rail, 1 Grey Wagtail. 3 Curlew, 14 Snipe, 11 Redshank, 4 Lapwing.
Bransholme Sewage Works: 146 Carrrion Crows on the ice, Linnet. Wildfowl crammed onto a sixteenth of the lake - the only part unfrozen: 31 Gadwall, 6 Shoveler, 6 Pochard, 10 Tufted Duck, 104 Coot.
Paull Holme Strays: 2 White-fronted Geese, male Hen Harrier and Marsh Harrier
Brantingham : Drumming Woodpecker
Friday 8th
Male Blackcap in a garden off Holderness Road in Hull
Thursday 7th
Tophill Low : Drake Smew on D res and 3 Curlew attempted to land - obviously looking for any mud they can find. Massive numbers of Coots but a decline in other wildfowl species - gone to coast?. 2 Barn owls on North Scrub and Snipe over. 3 Roe deer, Treecreeper and several Goldcrest in D woods. Grey Heron on Struncheonhill ponds and Kestrel on Barmston Drain. 2 Common Buzzard and a Woodcock over the car park. Reed bunting in Residential area. Res's still 2/3rd frozen
Kirkella one heavily laden cotoneaster bush contained 2 Mistle Thrushes, 12 Fieldfares, 5 Blackbirds, one Song Thrush and 8 Redwings.
Etton Dykes : Little Owl,
Lockington : Little Owl and Barn Owl
Welton Waters : Woodcock
Wednesday 6th
Tophill: All marshes and most of 'D' and 'O' Reservoir are frozen. The remaining areas of open water held several goldeneye. Carrion crows were feeding on the ice with a grey wagtail hunting for insects. Female Brambling on the feeders, with Willow Tit and Great Spotted Woodpecker attending regularly. A male Bullfinch was feeding on nettle stems around the feeders. Around 600 Lapwing were over Struncheonhill Farm. 1700 Coot, 800 Wigeon 18 Goldeneye, 4 Shoveler etc..
Hornsea Mere : Few hundred Wigeon, Teal etc.. Three hundred large gulls on ice. No white-wingers.
Little Owl was sun bathing in the shed at Little Common Farm. Cranswick
Blackcap still in a Hutton Cranswick Garden
Woodmansey to Figham : Barn Owl, 1 Shoveler - 3, Redshank - 1, Snipe - 1, Fieldfare - 2
Monday 4th
9 Bullfinch along the disused railway in Little Weighton
Sunday 3rd
Winter Thrushes are entering gardens now with reports of 4 Redwings in Hull and 2 Fieldfares in Walkington gardens
Tophill Low : Female Smew on O Res. 2 Male Goosander flew from O towards D at lunchtime, with a possible third bird present. Woodcock was flushed in D woods, with male Brambling and Willow Tit on the feeders. 6 Siskin were in the car park. Bittern was again seen flying along Barmston Drain near Watton NR (A Bittern was also reported in the vicinity prior to Jan 1st too apparently). Stoat on the approach road
2 Barn-owls near Southburn
Snipe at Kirkburn.
Cottingham : Blackcap in a garden, Woodcock in the fields between New Village Road and North Moor Lane
2 marsh tit in Nut Wood near Raywell also c60 chaffinch and c40 greenfinch in hedgerow at the western end of Nut Wood.
Welton Waters : 181 Gadwall on site and a report af a Little Stint on the Humber foreshore with Dunlins
Paull Holme Strays :7 Shoveller, a Marsh Harrier flew east along strays. A Tawny Owl was being mobbed by Blackbirds in a Paull garden.
Saturday 2nd
Swinemoor : 1 Green Sandpiper, 21 Tree Sparrow, 29 Redshank, 15 Snipe, 2 Grey Wagtail, 40+ Fieldfare, 8 Lapwing
Bransholme Sewage Works : Only 1/8 of the water unfrozen, many wildfowl gathered in just a small patch of water: 49 Gadwall, 11 Shoveler, 12 Tufted Duck, 4 Pochard, 91 Coot, 15 Mallard, 2 Mute Swan
Tophill Low : Male and Female Smew on O Res. Grey Heron on Barmston Drain. Treecreeper D woods and two Pink-feet with the Greylags on D.
Paull Holme Strays : 1 Gadwell, 150 Teal
Friday 1st
Tophill Low : 69 Species recorded at and around the environs of Tophill today. Highlights being: 1 male and 2 female Smew on 'O' Res, male Goosander on 'D', Cetti's warbler southern site and a Jay over. Bittern flew along Barmston Drain next to 'D' res with a Grey Heron near Watton NR. Grey Wagtail in the car park, Siskin, Linnet, Willow Tit, Brambling, 2+ Barn Owl, Reed bunting and 4 Bullfinch around the site. 5 Roe deer and fox also seen in area.
A Green Sandpiper in a roadside drain by the garden centres in Woodmansey
Paull Holme Strays : Little Egret, 23 Fieldfare
December 2009
Wednesday 30th
Bransholme Sewage Works Gadwall 54, Shoveler 15, Pochard 7, Tufted Duck 7, Coot 85, Little Grebe 2, Moorhen 6, Mallard 31, Mute Swan 2
Tuesday 29th
Peregrine Woodmansey
Hornsea Mere; Three Red-breasted Merganser, 1Ruddy Shelduck, 73 Barnacle Geese. 12 Goldeneye, a 2W Glaucous Gull on ice dusk. The Yellow-ringed Barnacle still present. The ring had black ACA on it
Welton Waters: Two Cormorant, 190 Pochard, 11 Little Grebe, one Redshank, one Marsh Tit, 2 Bullfinch
Brough Haven: 135 Mallard, 1 Shelduck, 1 Teal, one Redshank.
Monday 28th
Hornsea Mere: from or in First Field - One Ruddy Shelduck, c81 Barnacle Geese (one bearing yellow darvick ring with black letters/figures right leg; metal ring left leg). 150+ Greylag, 4 Pink-footed Geese, c15 Meadow Pipit.
High Eske : 350 Greylag flock contained at least one Pink-footed Goose. Grebes included at least three Little.
Arram Carrs: 11 Whooper Swan.
Barmston : 130 Sanderling,60 Oystercatchers,1 Dunlin, 1 Ringed Plover,25 Turnstone.6 Bar Tailed Godwits,8
Grey Plover 2 Redshanks,34 Golden Plover.134 Great Crested Grebe and Male & Female Eider on the sea
Of interest a Ray's Bream(approx 450mm in length) washed up on the tideline apparently good numbers of this Southern Pelagic species have been found along the East Coast thiis month ( Thanks to John Leason for this )
Sunday 27th
A frozen Tophill low today produced Willow Tit, 3 Bramblings and 2 Siskins at the D res wood feeding station. A female Reed
Bunting was seen on a Driffield bird table
more from Tophill Low 17 Cormorant, 3 Little Grebe, 5 Great Crested Grebe , 373 Greylag, 4450 Wigeon, 302 Mallard,73 Gadwall, 216 Teal, 9 Shoveler, 144 Pochard, 41 Goldeneye, 151 Tufted Duck, 3 ruddy Duck (female), 3031 Coot, Gulls: 8700 Common, 2000 Black- headed, 33 Herring, 60 Great Black-backed. Barn Owls WNR & Tophill + Kestrel, /Willow Tit, 4-5 Brambling & Bullfinch D Woods/ Mistle Thrush - Houses.
Hornsea Mere 1st Field: 1 Ruddy Shelduck, with Barnacle flock.
Saturday 26th
30 Goosanders on the drain this morning between Marfleet Lane and Preston Road Hull
Atwick-Barmston: 6 Whoopers Sth over sea 12.40, (later on the ice at Hornsea Mere). 6 Red-throated Divers, 56 Cormorant Sth. 1 Great Crested Grebe Sth, 1 Guillemot & Auk sp.
Skipsea Far Grange: 78 Canada Geese, 2 Golden Plover.
Ulrome: 10 Grey Partridge. Also 2 at Routh.
Barmston: 1 female Eider, 1 Grey Plover, c 10 Golden Plover, 15 Oystercatcher, 6 Sanderling, 4 Ringed Plover, 9 Turnstone.
Hornsea Mere: 500 Teal, 80 Pochrd, 80 Shovler, 500 Herring Gull, 430 G B B Gull.
Cottingham : 2 Tree Sparrow Fisher's Fm
Paull Holme Strays : 55 Pink-feet, 1 Canada, 2 Stonechat.15 Shoveller
East Park : drake Shoveler
Friday 25th
Up to about 30 blackbirds regularly feeding on fallen apples round a tree in Brantingham.
Cottingham : Parrots still churchyard
Paull Holme Strays : Water Pipit 2nd pool
East Park : drake Shoveler
Thursday 24th
10 Goosanders 5m 5f on the drain between Holderness High Road and Salthouse Road today
Wednesday 24th
Bullfinches in KIrkella Gardens,
Monday 21st
Weel Pond : 3 Goosander
Hornsea Mere : Mere largely frozen, Buzzard and 18 Canada Geese highlights
Sunday 20th
Both of yesterdays Blackcaps still present today
Tophill Low : Male Red-crested Pochrd was on D res. 1047 Coot, 1515 Wigeon. 646 Mallard, 97 pochard. No sign of the Smews.
Smew 1 drake, River Hull at Wilfholme, Common Snipe 50+ River Hull between Wilfholme and Aike, Stonechat 2 Wilfholme, Skylark 72 Kilnwick
Paull Holme Strays : 5000 Golden Plover, 20 Turnstone, 27 Black-tailed Godwit, 4 Bar-tailed Godwit and a Peregrine
East Park : 2 Goosander, 1 Kingfisher, 2 Snipe
Foston: Peregrine.
Kelk Beck: Merlin, 2 Water Rail, Green Sandpiper, 3 Kingfisher, 30 Tree Sparrow, 24 Yellowhammer, and a Corn Bunting
Saturday 19th
Welton Waters and foreshore : Male Marsh Harrier over river reeds opp Airfield.12 Little Grebe on ponds and one in Humber, 7 Goldeneye, 37 Pochard, 3 Snipe, 36 Dunlin, Meadow Pippit and Reed Bunting
Cottingham large pale falcon with jesses Kingtree Ave on aerial for a few minutes mobbed by Crows.
A male Blackcap in a Hutton Cranswick Garden and a female Blackcap in Beverley.
Peregrine, Kilnwick
East Park : 5 Goosander, 4 Teal - 3 male 1 female, Pair of Kingfishers
Harpham: Jay, Peregrine and a flock of 74 Skylark.
Friday 18th
A Kingfisher on Creyke Beck alongside Dunswell Road in Cottingham this morning.
East Park : 26 Goosander, Pair of Teal, Pair of Kingfishers
Thursday 17th
Flock of over 100 Pinkfeet grounded between snow showers just beyond Boreas Hill, Paull this afternoon
Wednesday 16th
Tophill Low : drk R-C.Pochard S.Marsh
Watton : pair of Smew.
Tuesday 15th
Bransholme Sewage Works : Gadwall: 49, Shoveler: 26, Grey Wagtail: 1, Kingfisher: 1, Tufted Duck: 21, Coot 63, Mallard: 7, Moorhen: 2
Sunday 13th
Tophill Low : Smew on D Res. D woods feeders provided Brambling, Willow Tit, 18 Siskin, The reserve Mammal Walk went well with 14 people. Loads of Otter spraints / tracks, Fox scats, Roe Deer tracks, and a Bank Vole caught in the longworth trap which delighted on lookers before being safely released. A dozen Curlew were around WNR/SM East as were a dozen Redshank.
Redhead Smew Watton NR.
Whooper Swan 8, Arram Carrs
Saturday 12th
Tophill Low : 2 Woodcock, a few Bullfinch, Great Spotted Woodpecker, a good variety of Fungi were all on show at the north end of the reserve. Water Rail on North Marsh.
A Blackcap was in a North Hull garden today.
Paull Holme Strays : Peregrine, 1 Little Egret, 6000 Golden Plover, 800 Lapwing, 7 Black-tailed Godwit and a Barn Owl.
Friday 11th
Tophill Low : pair Smew D res. Willow Tit feeders, Snipe SME, Buzzard D wall, Redshank
Hornsea Mere : 136 Goldeneye, 40 Gadwall.
Atwick- Barmston: 26 Redshank, 3 Oystcatcher, 1 Gannet Nth, 9 Kittiwake (7 of which feeding in sea) (2 most unseasonal recds). 23 R-t Divers, 9 G C Grebe, 2 Common Scoter, 3 Razorbill, 3 Guillemot.
Thursday 10th
Watton NR: redhead Smew
Tophill Low : Cettis Warbler and Kingfisher at North Marsh
Hornsea Mere : 8 Pintail and 2 Water Rail
Wednesday 9th
Tophill Low : 2 Cettis Warblers were heard in the South Marsh West area today, c30 Siskin in the car park, 1 possibly 2 Willow Tits in the NE corner of the car park, (2nd bird not possitively identified, but worth keeping an eye out). 31 Collared Doves on site
Tuesday 8th
Tickton : Common Buzzard over A1035
High Eske NR : Greylag Goose 300, Cormorant 13, Wigeon 310, Coot 50, Mallard 150, Great Crested Grebe, Little Grebe 4, Tufted Duck 20, Pochard 2, Redshank 90, Shoveler 3, Gadwall 6, Grey Heron, Goldeneye 5, Teal 5.{Stonechat by R.Hull to north.]
Arram Carr: Mute Swan 49, Whooper Swan 6.
Sunday 6th
Ulrome: 18 GC Grebe, 8 R-t Divers, 5 Sanderling.
Barmston: 4 G C Grebe, 14 Redshank, 9 Sanderling.
Tophill: 3 Smew inc 1 male, pair Goosander, 74 Curlew. 12 Redshank,
Saturday 5th
Woodcock in the fields between New Village Road and North Moor Lane in Cottingham
Two skeins of 66 and c.40 Pink-footed Geese flew NW over Pearson Park, Hull mid-morning today
Welton Waters : Brough Angling Complex Coot 26, Gadwall 40, Tufted Duck 11, Wigeon 24, Goldeneye 3, Great Crested Grebe, Mute Swan 3, Little Grebe 5, Mallard 4.
Watersports pit Mute Swan 38, Greylag Goose 40, Tufted Duck 5, Pochard 19, Little Grebe 8, drk Scaup, Cormorant 6, Gadwall 14.
Airfield Teal 30
Peregrine Watton Nature Reserve,
Tophill Low : Barn Owl O Res, c25 Pink-footed Geese over reserve.
Friday 4th
Swinemoor : 210 Lapwing, 3 Snipe, 2 Curlew, 5 Tree Sparrows
Thursday 3rd
Tophill Low : redhead Smew D res. No sign of Willow Tit [feeding suspended due to rat catching, but new feeding stn erected by new pond in D woods].
Wednesday 2nd
Tophill Low : Pair of Smew D Res. Willow Tit feeders . Adult Med Gull D res roost
Tuesday 1st
Tophill Low : drake Red-crested Pochard on South Marsh West.1 drake & 1 redhead Smew on D Res.
20 Curlew & 60 Lapwing roosting on South Marsh West.
1 Grey Wagtail on the car-park.
Cottingham : 30+ Meadow Pipits field west of Millhouse Wood La pumping stn.
Bransholme Sewage Works Gadwall 54, Shoveler 15, Pochard 7, Tufted Duck 7, Coot 85, Little Grebe 2, Moorhen 6, Mallard 31, Mute Swan 2
Tuesday 29th
Peregrine Woodmansey
Hornsea Mere; Three Red-breasted Merganser, 1Ruddy Shelduck, 73 Barnacle Geese. 12 Goldeneye, a 2W Glaucous Gull on ice dusk. The Yellow-ringed Barnacle still present. The ring had black ACA on it
Welton Waters: Two Cormorant, 190 Pochard, 11 Little Grebe, one Redshank, one Marsh Tit, 2 Bullfinch
Brough Haven: 135 Mallard, 1 Shelduck, 1 Teal, one Redshank.
Monday 28th
Hornsea Mere: from or in First Field - One Ruddy Shelduck, c81 Barnacle Geese (one bearing yellow darvick ring with black letters/figures right leg; metal ring left leg). 150+ Greylag, 4 Pink-footed Geese, c15 Meadow Pipit.
High Eske : 350 Greylag flock contained at least one Pink-footed Goose. Grebes included at least three Little.
Arram Carrs: 11 Whooper Swan.
Barmston : 130 Sanderling,60 Oystercatchers,1 Dunlin, 1 Ringed Plover,25 Turnstone.6 Bar Tailed Godwits,8
Grey Plover 2 Redshanks,34 Golden Plover.134 Great Crested Grebe and Male & Female Eider on the sea
Of interest a Ray's Bream(approx 450mm in length) washed up on the tideline apparently good numbers of this Southern Pelagic species have been found along the East Coast thiis month ( Thanks to John Leason for this )
Sunday 27th
A frozen Tophill low today produced Willow Tit, 3 Bramblings and 2 Siskins at the D res wood feeding station. A female Reed
Bunting was seen on a Driffield bird table
more from Tophill Low 17 Cormorant, 3 Little Grebe, 5 Great Crested Grebe , 373 Greylag, 4450 Wigeon, 302 Mallard,73 Gadwall, 216 Teal, 9 Shoveler, 144 Pochard, 41 Goldeneye, 151 Tufted Duck, 3 ruddy Duck (female), 3031 Coot, Gulls: 8700 Common, 2000 Black- headed, 33 Herring, 60 Great Black-backed. Barn Owls WNR & Tophill + Kestrel, /Willow Tit, 4-5 Brambling & Bullfinch D Woods/ Mistle Thrush - Houses.
Hornsea Mere 1st Field: 1 Ruddy Shelduck, with Barnacle flock.
Saturday 26th
30 Goosanders on the drain this morning between Marfleet Lane and Preston Road Hull
Atwick-Barmston: 6 Whoopers Sth over sea 12.40, (later on the ice at Hornsea Mere). 6 Red-throated Divers, 56 Cormorant Sth. 1 Great Crested Grebe Sth, 1 Guillemot & Auk sp.
Skipsea Far Grange: 78 Canada Geese, 2 Golden Plover.
Ulrome: 10 Grey Partridge. Also 2 at Routh.
Barmston: 1 female Eider, 1 Grey Plover, c 10 Golden Plover, 15 Oystercatcher, 6 Sanderling, 4 Ringed Plover, 9 Turnstone.
Hornsea Mere: 500 Teal, 80 Pochrd, 80 Shovler, 500 Herring Gull, 430 G B B Gull.
Cottingham : 2 Tree Sparrow Fisher's Fm
Paull Holme Strays : 55 Pink-feet, 1 Canada, 2 Stonechat.15 Shoveller
East Park : drake Shoveler
Friday 25th
Up to about 30 blackbirds regularly feeding on fallen apples round a tree in Brantingham.
Cottingham : Parrots still churchyard
Paull Holme Strays : Water Pipit 2nd pool
East Park : drake Shoveler
Thursday 24th
10 Goosanders 5m 5f on the drain between Holderness High Road and Salthouse Road today
Wednesday 24th
Bullfinches in KIrkella Gardens,
Monday 21st
Weel Pond : 3 Goosander
Hornsea Mere : Mere largely frozen, Buzzard and 18 Canada Geese highlights
Sunday 20th
Both of yesterdays Blackcaps still present today
Tophill Low : Male Red-crested Pochrd was on D res. 1047 Coot, 1515 Wigeon. 646 Mallard, 97 pochard. No sign of the Smews.
Smew 1 drake, River Hull at Wilfholme, Common Snipe 50+ River Hull between Wilfholme and Aike, Stonechat 2 Wilfholme, Skylark 72 Kilnwick
Paull Holme Strays : 5000 Golden Plover, 20 Turnstone, 27 Black-tailed Godwit, 4 Bar-tailed Godwit and a Peregrine
East Park : 2 Goosander, 1 Kingfisher, 2 Snipe
Foston: Peregrine.
Kelk Beck: Merlin, 2 Water Rail, Green Sandpiper, 3 Kingfisher, 30 Tree Sparrow, 24 Yellowhammer, and a Corn Bunting
Saturday 19th
Welton Waters and foreshore : Male Marsh Harrier over river reeds opp Airfield.12 Little Grebe on ponds and one in Humber, 7 Goldeneye, 37 Pochard, 3 Snipe, 36 Dunlin, Meadow Pippit and Reed Bunting
Cottingham large pale falcon with jesses Kingtree Ave on aerial for a few minutes mobbed by Crows.
A male Blackcap in a Hutton Cranswick Garden and a female Blackcap in Beverley.
Peregrine, Kilnwick
East Park : 5 Goosander, 4 Teal - 3 male 1 female, Pair of Kingfishers
Harpham: Jay, Peregrine and a flock of 74 Skylark.
Friday 18th
A Kingfisher on Creyke Beck alongside Dunswell Road in Cottingham this morning.
East Park : 26 Goosander, Pair of Teal, Pair of Kingfishers
Thursday 17th
Flock of over 100 Pinkfeet grounded between snow showers just beyond Boreas Hill, Paull this afternoon
Wednesday 16th
Tophill Low : drk R-C.Pochard S.Marsh
Watton : pair of Smew.
Tuesday 15th
Bransholme Sewage Works : Gadwall: 49, Shoveler: 26, Grey Wagtail: 1, Kingfisher: 1, Tufted Duck: 21, Coot 63, Mallard: 7, Moorhen: 2
Sunday 13th
Tophill Low : Smew on D Res. D woods feeders provided Brambling, Willow Tit, 18 Siskin, The reserve Mammal Walk went well with 14 people. Loads of Otter spraints / tracks, Fox scats, Roe Deer tracks, and a Bank Vole caught in the longworth trap which delighted on lookers before being safely released. A dozen Curlew were around WNR/SM East as were a dozen Redshank.
Redhead Smew Watton NR.
Whooper Swan 8, Arram Carrs
Saturday 12th
Tophill Low : 2 Woodcock, a few Bullfinch, Great Spotted Woodpecker, a good variety of Fungi were all on show at the north end of the reserve. Water Rail on North Marsh.
A Blackcap was in a North Hull garden today.
Paull Holme Strays : Peregrine, 1 Little Egret, 6000 Golden Plover, 800 Lapwing, 7 Black-tailed Godwit and a Barn Owl.
Friday 11th
Tophill Low : pair Smew D res. Willow Tit feeders, Snipe SME, Buzzard D wall, Redshank
Hornsea Mere : 136 Goldeneye, 40 Gadwall.
Atwick- Barmston: 26 Redshank, 3 Oystcatcher, 1 Gannet Nth, 9 Kittiwake (7 of which feeding in sea) (2 most unseasonal recds). 23 R-t Divers, 9 G C Grebe, 2 Common Scoter, 3 Razorbill, 3 Guillemot.
Thursday 10th
Watton NR: redhead Smew
Tophill Low : Cettis Warbler and Kingfisher at North Marsh
Hornsea Mere : 8 Pintail and 2 Water Rail
Wednesday 9th
Tophill Low : 2 Cettis Warblers were heard in the South Marsh West area today, c30 Siskin in the car park, 1 possibly 2 Willow Tits in the NE corner of the car park, (2nd bird not possitively identified, but worth keeping an eye out). 31 Collared Doves on site
Tuesday 8th
Tickton : Common Buzzard over A1035
High Eske NR : Greylag Goose 300, Cormorant 13, Wigeon 310, Coot 50, Mallard 150, Great Crested Grebe, Little Grebe 4, Tufted Duck 20, Pochard 2, Redshank 90, Shoveler 3, Gadwall 6, Grey Heron, Goldeneye 5, Teal 5.{Stonechat by R.Hull to north.]
Arram Carr: Mute Swan 49, Whooper Swan 6.
Sunday 6th
Ulrome: 18 GC Grebe, 8 R-t Divers, 5 Sanderling.
Barmston: 4 G C Grebe, 14 Redshank, 9 Sanderling.
Tophill: 3 Smew inc 1 male, pair Goosander, 74 Curlew. 12 Redshank,
Saturday 5th
Woodcock in the fields between New Village Road and North Moor Lane in Cottingham
Two skeins of 66 and c.40 Pink-footed Geese flew NW over Pearson Park, Hull mid-morning today
Welton Waters : Brough Angling Complex Coot 26, Gadwall 40, Tufted Duck 11, Wigeon 24, Goldeneye 3, Great Crested Grebe, Mute Swan 3, Little Grebe 5, Mallard 4.
Watersports pit Mute Swan 38, Greylag Goose 40, Tufted Duck 5, Pochard 19, Little Grebe 8, drk Scaup, Cormorant 6, Gadwall 14.
Airfield Teal 30
Peregrine Watton Nature Reserve,
Tophill Low : Barn Owl O Res, c25 Pink-footed Geese over reserve.
Friday 4th
Swinemoor : 210 Lapwing, 3 Snipe, 2 Curlew, 5 Tree Sparrows
Thursday 3rd
Tophill Low : redhead Smew D res. No sign of Willow Tit [feeding suspended due to rat catching, but new feeding stn erected by new pond in D woods].
Wednesday 2nd
Tophill Low : Pair of Smew D Res. Willow Tit feeders . Adult Med Gull D res roost
Tuesday 1st
Tophill Low : drake Red-crested Pochard on South Marsh West.1 drake & 1 redhead Smew on D Res.
20 Curlew & 60 Lapwing roosting on South Marsh West.
1 Grey Wagtail on the car-park.
Cottingham : 30+ Meadow Pipits field west of Millhouse Wood La pumping stn.
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