Warm, summer weather returned. Cloudless skies with a light south-easterly breeze and an afternoon temperature reaching 21°C.
Seawatching was predictably quiet and providing scant reward for the effort, highlights being single Common Scoter, five Red-throated Divers and three Great Crested Grebes, two Bonxies and an Arctic Skua. Terns provided greatest numbers with 70 Sandwich, 30 Common and four Arctic.
Teal numbered 32 while wader-wise there was 16 Dunlin, a Bar-tailed Godwit, a Common Sandpiper and a Green Sandpiper. Passerine interest included 7 Pied Flycatchers, 16 Willow Warblers, 5 Whinchat, 6 Wheatear, a Yellow Wagtail and a notable count of 540 Linnet.
The Black-browed Abatross was again at Bempton Cliffs RSPB.
There was a new record for Flamborough; 3 Willow Emerald Damselflies graced a pond on the Outer Head. This species has only previously seen once on the headland at Bempton.
