Unsettled weather across the greater headland, though warm, with light showers throughout the day, a thunderstorm in the afternoon and force 3 south-south-westerly winds increasing to force 5 late in the day. This morning’s seawatch saw, moving south unless stated, five Manx Shearwaters, 12 Teal, two Shoveler, two Common Scoter (31 north), 185 Oystercatcher, five Golden Plover, 24 Knot, four Whimbrel, four Curlew, three Turnstone, two Arctic Skua and 11 Sandwich Tern (98 north). Northbound birds included 12 Fulmar, three Eider, two Common and three Arctic Tern.
An evening watch produced 137 Oystercatcher, four Dunlin, two Greenshank, one Knot, ten Lesser Black-backed Gull and a juvenile Yellow-legged Gull all south; one Curlew, one Arctic Tern, five Eider and 32 Common Scoter north and five Manx north (four south), two Sandwich Tern north (15 south) and 40 Common Tern north (eight south).
Two juvenile Cuckoo still at Thornwick Pool; also, two juvenile Common Snipe, one Greenshank, two Barn Owls and Yellow Wagtail there. A Whimbrel south flew over the village at lunchtime.
South Landing’s wader assemblage consisted of six Ringed Plover, five Oystercatcher, six Dunlin, two Sanderling, one Curlew and one Redshank. Large Swift and hirundine numbers remained, with 100 of the former and between 2-300 of the latter feeding around the Outer Head. Unsurprisingly, a Hobby was also in attendance.
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