Light winds veered from westerly to easterly during a day of occasional sunny intervals and temperatures reaching 19 degrees C. A Cory’s Shearwater flew north before settling on the sea off the Fog Station late afternoon; presumably the same individual then headed south 90 minutes later. Additional seawatch records in the morning included a Mediterranean Gull, two juvenile Yellow-legged Gulls and a juvenile Caspian Gull; 3.5 hours in the afternoon also produced two Blue Fulmars and nine Arctic Skuas flying south and three Sooty Shearwaters north.
Thornwick Pools attracted a Wood Sandpiper, two Green Sandpipers, a Snipe, one Dunlin, four Little Ringed Plovers and a Ringed Plover. The North Marsh area hosted single Greenshank, Ruff, Golden Plover and a Dunlin, while another Green Sandpiper overflew Oceanview. There appeared to be an increase in passerine migrants including a scattering of Willow Warblers, while a Spotted Flycatcher was at South Landing.
The same arrival was witnessed at RSPB Bempton Cliffs, with 25 Willow Warblers and a Garden Warbler present. Thirteen Turnstones moved south-east offshore, where a Minke Whale was present. A Short-eared Owl hunted cliff top fields on the reserve in the evening.
