Sunny throughout, with light onshore winds and temperatures reaching 22 degrees C. Seawatch highlights included 128 Common Scoters, 12 Manx Shearwaters, four Little Egrets, a Bar-tailed Godwit, three Mediterranean Gulls, 34 Sandwich Terns, five Arctic Terns and two Bonxies north; another Mediterranean Gull flew south, while the year’s first Minke Whale fed amongst the ‘seabird frenzies’. The Black-browed Albatross fed off South Landing early morning amongst large numbers of seabirds, but had returned to Bempton by the evening; the Red-tailed Shrike remained at Wandale Farm, where a Hobby was also recorded.
