The day featured light/moderate south-west winds, overcast skies, with sunny intervals and light showers and temperatures that peaked at ten degrees C. Seawatch highlights included 80 Pink-footed Geese and a Long-tailed Duck flying south, one Sooty Shearwater, a Mediterranean Gull and two Bonxies heading north, with a Snow Bunting south over the Fog Station.
Thirty-three Whooper Swans toured fields on the outer head, where a flock of 40 Pink-footed Geese also moved south. A setaside field in the same area hosted eight Snipe, a Jack Snipe and a Woodcock, with an additional two Snipe at Thornwick Pools; a Yellow-legged Gull was on the sea off the Fog Station early afternoon. Passerine interest included a single House Martin, a small arrival of winter thrushes including 94 Fieldfare, 92 Redwing and 45 Blackbirds on the outer head, a Lesser Whitethroat, 17 Lesser Redpolls and two Brambling. Elsewhere, the Dusky Warbler remained at Buckton.
