Northerly gales for the second day running resulted in another great seawatch. A dark-bellied Brent Goose, 40 pale-bellied Brent Geese, 82 Common Scoter, a Black-throated Diver, two Storm Petrels, 1078 Sooty Shearwaters, 232 Manx Shearwaters and a pale morph juvenile Long-tailed Skua flew north. A total of 35 Bonxies and ten Arctic Skuas headed south. The strong northerly airflow also resulted in Barnacle Geese overshooting wintering grounds, with 62 moving south and 26 north. Despite the inclement conditions, some scarce passerine migrants had clearly made landfall: Yellow-browed Warblers were discovered at Old Fall & South Landing, whilst a male Red-breasted Flycatcher at Old Fall was better still.
Visible migration at RSPB Bempton Cliffs included 26 pale-bellied Brent Geese (21 north, five south), 132 Barnacle Geese (124 south, eight north), five Eider south, a Goosander north, 115 Sooty Shearwaters and 12 Manx Shearwaters; a Reed Warbler and two Brambling were also present.
