Firecrest, Regulus ignicapilla

Local status: Rare passage migrant and winter visitor

April and November seem to be good months to catch up with this attractive ‘crest. Firecrests have overwintered on at least one occasion in the York area and it is likely that birds recorded in the winter months may have been present for a while

Records:
2021: Wheldrake Ings, 23rd September. one
2020: scrub near Askham Bog, 22nd November, one

2019: Strensall pumping station, 11th January. one
2018: River Foss in Huntington, 30th January. one
2016: Bubwith, 3rd February. one, identified when brought in dead by a cat
2016: Strensall Common, 18th January. one and one at
2013: Red House Wood, Moor Monkton, 17th to 25th November. (Two on 23rd).
2013: Skipwith Common, 20th October.
2011: Stockton-on-the-Forest, mid February. Trapped and ringed.
2010: Sutton-on-the-Forest, 20th November. Trapped and ringed.
2007: Yearsley Moor, 9th December.
2002-3: New Earswick, 13th December 2002 to 1st February 2003.
2002: Bank Island, 28th October.
2002: Breighton Ferry, 15th October. Three, possibly four.
1999: Clifton Ings, 26th November.
1997: Rawcliffe Lake, 18th April.
1995: Thornton Ellers, 21st November.
1995: Elvington, 22nd January.
1994: Wheldrake, 21st and 22nd April. Singing male.
1992: Wheldrake Woods, 14th January.
1991: Pocklington Canal, 14th May.
1989: Grimston Wood, 14th December. Found dead.
1989: Allerthorpe Common, 6th April.
1983: Anchor Plain, Strensall, 20th November. Trapped and ringed.
1978: Askham Bryan, 11th April.