Although largely overcast with occasional sunny intervals, it was a warm day with temperatures reaching 17 degrees C; winds remained light and variable in direction. Seawatch records included four Eider, a Whimbrel, 20 Lesser Black-backed Gulls, 41 Sandwich Terns, a Common Tern, two Red-throated Divers and a Manx Shearwater; a Great Northern Diver was also off the Fog Station.
Wildfowl interest included two Mute Swans on Thornwick Pools, three Teal and four Shovelers. Two Bar-tailed Godwits, two Grey Plovers, five Dunlin, five Whimbrel and a Common Sandpiper were also logged, while a Little Tern north past the outer head represented the first for the year.
The Hooded Crow remained on the headland and showed best on the Golf Course early on, while other passerine migrants included: two Garden Warblers, a Pied Flycatcher, five Common Redstarts, five Wheatears, one Whinchat, a Redwing, a Tree Pipit, 18 Yellow Wagtails, a White Wagtail, four Siskin, two Lesser Redpolls and two Brambling.
Notable sightings from RSPB Bempton Cliffs included a Long-eared Owl hunting cliff top fields in the evening, two Common Redstarts, a Whinchat, two Wheatears, five Yellow Wagtails, a Tree Pipit and 20 Corn Buntings.
