A light northerly wind and generally overcast conditions prevailed. The seawatch highlights included 50 Wigeon and 237 Teal flying north, a single Ruff and a dark juvenile Long-tailed Skua moving north. There were two 1st calendar-year Mediterranean Gulls, 1425 Black-headed Gulls north and the year’s first two Black Terns off the headland. A juvenile Yellow-legged Gull congregated with gulls on the Outer Head, whilst a Marsh Harrier and an adult-type Hobby were noted in the same area. Waders included a Little Stint on the flashes, a Greenshank, and a juvenile Black-tailed Godwit on Thornwick Pool, where a Little Grebe has taken up residence, and a drake Shoveler was also present.
Passerine migrants included 13 Whinchat together in the Gorse Field, two Tree Pipits heading south, a Cuckoo, together with seven Pied and three Spotted Flycatchers on the Outer Head. Buckton attracted a further three Pied Flycatchers, six Whinchats and two Redstarts.
