29th July 2019

An overcast, foggy start to the day with light drizzle eventually relenting; the day ended with sunny skies and light onshore winds. During the seawatch, 87 Oystercatchers, a Bar-tailed Godwit and a Common Tern flew north, with 44 Sandwich Terns moving in the opposite direction. 

Thornwick Pools hosted a single Teal, a Ruff, one Wood Sandpiper, two Common Sandpipers, two Green Sandpipers, a Redshank, a Golden Plover, a juvenile Little Ringed Plover, one Snipe, six Dunlin, a juvenile Yellow-legged Gull, one Little Gull and a Grey Wagtail. More unusually, a Green Sandpiper visited a garden pond on the southern side of the village, with another of the same at Buckton Pond. Elsewhere, a Red Kite flew south over the sea past the Fog Station, whilst a juvenile Mediterranean Gull dropped in at South Landing. Evidence of passerine migration came in the form of five Pied Flycatchers.

Wood Sandpiper, Thornwick Pools, by Alan Walkington
Ruff, Thornwick Pools, by Andrew Allport
Green Sandpiper, Flamborough village, by Rob Little