Filey Bird Reports – An index to articles

All the reports have the species reports for birds, and the later reports include, butterflies, moths, dragonflies and mammals

1977

Birds ringed at Filey Brigg in 1977

1978

Accounts of three good seawatch days in August and December
Visible southward Passage of Waders at Filey Brigg during Autumn 1978
The Autumn skua passage
Counts of Kittiwakes in first-year plumage, March to September 1978
Some observations on the movement of Sandwich Terns at Filey. July – September 1978

1979

Little Bunting – September 30th – a new Filey bird

 

1980

A New Bird for Filey – An account of the occurrence of a Ross’s Gull on 7th December
Some Observations on Gannet at Filey

 

1981

Seasons of mist … At Filey – A descriptive tale of a late autumn morning visit

 

1982

Marsh Warbler – New to Filey
Little Gulls: the Autumn influx

1983

Long-billed Dowitcher – A first for Filey
Ross’s Gull: Dispersal and movements
A wreck of Little Auks
Ringing Report started on yearly basis

1984

Saturday 3rd November … a classic seawatch
Scarlet Rosefinch … a passerine first for Filey
Laughing Gull … a new gull for Filey

1985

Rustic Bunting … 11th and 12th May
Red-throated Pipit … 12th to 14th June
Collared Flycatcher …21st and 22nd May
‘Siberian’ Stonechat … 18th to 21st October

1986

Lesser Yellowlegs – another first

1987

Woodlark – 5th April
Purple Heron – 18th – 19th April
Greenish Warbler – 24th – 28th August
Radde’s Warbler – 20th – 21st October
Olive-backed Pipit – 22nd October

1988

Red Kite – 16th April
Long-tailed Skuas at Filey in 1998

1989

The Glorious 12th …..A description account of September days culminating in a large fall

1990

Montagu’s Harrier – 28th August
Spotted Crake – 1st April
Dusky Warbler – 20th October
Woodchat Shrikes ( spring ad & autumn juv)
Little Bunting – 28th – 29th October

1991

Black-winged Stilt – 11th May
Lesser Crested Tern – 24th August

1992

Red-footed Falcons – Two birds 26th & 30th May
Gull-billed Tern – 18th August
Short-toed Lark – 16th May
Spectacled Warbler – 24th May
Bonelli’s Warbler – 19th – 28th September

1993

Sardinian Warbler – 27th June – 16th October
Booted Warbler – 18th-19th September
Great Snipe – 18th – 19th September
Arctic Warbler – 23rd October

1994

Yellow-breasted Bunting – 16th-18th September
Pechora Pipit – 9th October
Lanceolated Warbler – 10th October
The North Cliff Cormorant Colony

1995

Baird’s Sandpiper – 8th May
Citrine Wagtail – 18th – 19th June
Subalpine Warbler – 13th – 18th October
Little Auk influxes in 1995
Darters at the Dams

1996

Blyth’s Reed Warbler – 21st-24th September
Yellow-breasted Bunting – 8th September
Raptor watching at Filey

1997

A Problem Gull – In April and May a pale gull caused a lot of identification problems
A Problem Treecreeper – trapped in October showed some of the features of Short-toed

1998

Siberian Stonechat: A broader prospective discusses a record at Filey in 1998 and taxonomy
The Autumn Fall

1999

White-winged Black Terns – 19th and 29 August
Bridled/Sooty Tern – 31st August
White-billed Diver – 12th – 17th November
Cetaceans off Filey in 1999

2000

Honey Buzzards – A General Review –An article re the influx in September 2000
Radde’s Warbler – 2nd October
Lesser Yellowlegs – 17th October
Hume’s Warbler – 8th November
Seabird 2000 Survey
End of an Era? The birding changes and the the sewage outfall at the end of Brigg
Gone Batty! Bats recorded at Filey