60-MINUTE TWITCH: SOUTH CLIFF GARDENS AND SOUTH BAY, SCARBOROUGH, NORTH YORKSHIRE

Scarborough - Queen of the Yorkshire Riviera

Date: July 12, 2002

Time: 2.30-3.30 pm 

Weather Overcast, humid, very warm

Target species: Spotted flycatcher

Star species: Stonechat

Other species recorded: Herring gull, woodpigeon, blackbird, song thrush, stock dove, rock dove, carrion crow, goldfinch, great tit, blue tit, robin, wren, swallow, dunnock, house sparrow, chiffchaff, whitethroat, rabbit, grey squirrel.

Stonechat from afar

                                                 

Woodpigeon

Juvenile robin

South Cliff Gardens - home to multiple trees and shrubs

Plenty of habitat for songbirds . . 

. . and also some cliffy terrain