A bright day throughout, with light westerlies in the morning preceding south-easterlies in the afternoon; temperatures reached 22 degrees C. The morning seawatch highlights included 1650 Common Terns moving north along with 186 Sandwich Terns, two juvenile Mediterranean Gulls, three Arctic Skuas and 30 Manx Shearwaters. A juvenile Caspian Gull was again off the Fog Horn in the evening. Passerine migrants on the outer head included a Grasshopper Warbler, a Reed Warbler, 30 Willow Warblers, a Goldcrest, three Tree Pipits, a Pied Flycatcher, one Whinchat, two Wheatears, eight Yellow Wagtails, two Crossbill and one Siskin.
Three Minke Whales were off Bempton RSPB, where records included eight Willow Warblers, a Wheatear, two Whinchat, 24 Yellow Wagtails, a Grey Wagtail and a Redpoll. Sightings from the nearby Bempton Caravan Park included a Hobby, 17 Willow Warblers and a Garden Warbler.
