A day of sunny intervals and a light/moderate northerly wind. Wildfowl were moving north during the seawatch, including three Pale-bellied Brent Geese, 112 Wigeon, 11 Pintail and 54 Common Scoters. A total of 32 Sooty Shearwaters and seven Manx Shearwaters also tracked north, as did a Mediterranean Gull, 18 Bonxies and ten Arctic Skuas. Two Bar-tailed Godwits and two Common Sandpipers frequented South Landing beach, with five Snipe and a Green Sandpiper at Thornwick Pools. Yesterday’s easterly winds and rain didn’t produce an appreciable arrival of migrant passerines, although the outer head attracted a Garden Warbler, one Pied Flycatcher, seven Wheatear, a Redstart and seven Yellow Wagtails.
There was no sign of the Green Warbler at Buckton, although the Black-browed Albatross was still present at RSPB Bempton Cliffs where there were also single Marsh Harrier and Hobby, one Garden Warbler, a Tree Pipit, four Pied Flycatchers and two Redstarts.
