An overcast day, with a moderate north-easterly wind and rain until mid-morning. Seawatching highlights included two dark-bellied Brent Geese, 22 Wigeon, 27 Teal, 54 Common Scoter, five Eider, a Red-breasted Merganser, 14 Red-throated Divers, two Manx Shearwaters, 44 Golden Plovers, two Bonxies, four Sandwich Terns and three Mediterranean Gulls flying north, with three Great Northern Divers, a Red-necked Grebe, eight Bonxies, seven Arctic Skuas and 12 Little Gulls heading south. Two Slavonian Grebes close inshore off the Fog Station were more unusual still, with a Common Sandpiper at South Landing and a Short-eared Owl in the Gorse Field.
Passerine migrants included eight Swallows, 12 Goldcrests, a Willow Warbler, four Chiffchaffs, seven Yellow-browed Warblers, six Wheatear, 890 Redwing, 380 Fieldfare, 40 Song Thrush, 25 Blackbird, two Mistle Thrush, 75 Chaffinch, 92 Brambling and a Hawfinch; the latter at South Landing.
West of the Dykes, single Short-eared Owl, Long-eared Owl and a newly arrived Yellow-browed Warbler were seen at RSPB Bempton Cliffs, whilst 60 Lapwing, two Ring Ouzels and five Brambling graced Buckton.
