Very light winds throughout, generally from the north, and relatively overcast with a best of 15 degrees C. Seawatch highlights included nine Sooty Shearwaters, three Velvet Scoters and two adult Pomarine Skuas flying north. Also recorded were a dark-bellied Brent Goose, single Shoveler, 100 Wigeon, a Pintail, 52 Teal, two Eider, two Little Gulls, four Mediterranean Gulls and three Arctic Skuas.
The Red-breasted Merganser was still off South Landing. Four Whooper Swans on fields near North Dykes then roosted on Thornwick Pools, with a Water Rail, a 2nd calendar-year Mediterranean Gull and two singing Cetti’s Warbler also at the latter location. Further records included a widely ranging Marsh Harrier, two Golden Plovers, a Grey Plover, eight Redwing, 22 Redpolls and four Brambling.
Sightings from RSPB Bempton Cliffs included seven Golden Plover, 102 Skylarks, four Blackcap, four Redwing and a Brambling.
