A cold and bright start to the day. Dry with long sunny spells and fresh south-westerly winds. Maximum temperature 12 °C.
A Little Auk passed the Fog Station during the seawatch which also included 16 Whooper Swans, two Mediterranean Gulls, single Long-tailed and Pomarine Skuas and a Sooty Shearwater.
Whooper Swan passage over the headland numbered 81 during the morning while c.2500 Pink-footed Geese continued to visit local stubble fields from their roosts on the Humber. A Little Bunting was found at Thornwick mid-afternoon.
Whooper Swans were also logged west of Danes Dyke with eight in fields near Buckton Hall, where there was also 200 Golden Plover, and 12 in off the sea at Bempton Cliffs. A Jack Snipe was at Bempton, a Yellow-browed Warbler continued its stay in the Dell at Bempton but the Daurian Shrike has finally moved on.
