Moderate to strong north-north-easterly winds dominated the first half of a largely sunny day, with temperatures reaching 17 degrees C. Seawatching was rewarded with two Eider flying south, 81 Common Scoter, two Red-throated Divers and 27 Manx Shearwaters all flying north, with seven Sandwich Terns and a Bonxie moving in the opposite direction. Thornwick Pools attracted single Wigeon and Tufted Duck along with two Dunlin. Late in the day, a juvenile Yellow-legged Gull rested on the golf course.
West of the Dykes, a Tufted Duck accompanied ten chicks on Buckton Pond, with 100 Swallows, a Grasshopper Warbler, an early migrant Whinchat and a Willow Warbler in the immediate vicinity of the Heligoland trap.
