Strong southerly winds backed south-easterly and strengthened further during the afternoon when heavy, driving rain arrived; temperatures reached 12 degrees C. Thousands of seabirds fed off the Seawatch Observatory in the morning and included the Great Shearwater close inshore with Gannets and a Slavonian Grebe feeding amongst the auks. Other notable records included seven Sooty Shearwaters north, two Velvet Scoters south, a first-winter Mediterranean Gull, four Little Gulls and a Minke Whale. The Spotted Redshank remained at Thornwick Pools.
