Variable cloud cover but a warm day nonetheless with a maximum temperature of 21°C. Winds were light and variable in direction.
The bird of the day was undoubtedly an adult Purple Heron that alighted at one of the pools on the golf course early morning before being immediately disturbed by greenkeepers and then flying south past the Fog Station. It was the second of the year after the individual at Thornwick Pools on 6th April, the first for thirty years.
Seawatching was relatively quiet with 3 Manx Shearwaters, 26 Sandwich Terns and 62 Common Scoter logged.
The juvenile Little Ringed Plover remained at Thornwick Pools where there were also single Garden and Grasshopper Warblers. Elsewhere, the Little Owl re-appeared near Lighthouse Road close to the golf course.
A Great White Egret passed southeast over Bempton Cliffs RSPB early morning and a Green Sandpiper was at Buckton Pond.
