Strong southerly winds lasted throughout a day that featured sunny intervals and light showers. During the seawatch the following moved south: 12 Pintail, 123 Teal, three Wigeon, a Goldeneye, 23 Common Scoter, a Grey Heron, a Little Egret, one Black-tailed Godwit, two Grey Plover, two Greenshank, the year’s first Spotted Redshank, four Sanderling, 87 Knot, 30 Redshank, a Bonxie, two Arctic Skua, ten Lesser Black-backed Gulls and 122 Sandwich Terns. In addition, a juvenile Yellow-legged Gull lingered on the sea off the fog station.
Thornwick Pools attracted two Curlew Sandpipers (an adult & a juvenile), 16 Dunlin, three Greenshank, a Ringed Plover, one Little Ringed Plover and a Snipe. A Ruff rested on fields near North Landing before heading off south.
A scattering of passerines were hunkered down in the strong winds, but both Redstart and Pied Flycatcher were present.
