Overcast and calm seas in the morning preceded sunnier skies, a moderate south-easterly breeze and temperatures that reached 20 degrees C. The day’s undoubted highlight was a pod of 15+ Long-finned Pilot Whales moving north and filmed from a fishing boat off the South Cliffs at 1611hrs.
Avian sightings included the following flying north past the Fog Station: 75 Common Scoters, 352 Sandwich Terns, 171 Common Terns, a juvenile Roseate Tern, 34 Arctic Terns, five Bonxies, two Arctic Skuas, ten Sooty Shearwaters and 59 Manx Shearwaters. Single juvenile Yellow-legged Gull and Caspian Gull lingered offshore.
On the land, a creamcrown Marsh Harrier flew from Bempton towards North Dykes.
