8th November 2018

A day of moderate south-south-west winds and sunny intervals. Seawatching highlights included four Whooper Swans, 54 Red-throated Divers, two Great Crested Grebes, 15 Lapwing, ten Dunlin and a Little Gull flying south.

The day’s highlight related to a Rough-legged Buzzard that flew north-east over RSPB Bempton Cliffs at 1300hrs. Additional migrants east of the Dykes included three Woodcock, small parties of thrushes, including 90 Redwing, Starling and Skylarks arriving in off the sea, a Brambling and two Northern Bullfinch.

Curlew, South Landing, by Don Hustings