It was a day that featured light northerly and then easterly winds, sunny conditions and temperatures that reached 15 degrees C. A four hour seawatch from first light produced 9950 Gannets flying north (and 1800 south), three Mute Swans heading south, 46 Common Scoters moving north, with three Sandwich, two Common and one Arctic Tern also north. A Wigeon on the sea off South Landing was unseasonal, a Grey Heron visited North Marsh and a Common Buzzard drifted over the village.
Away from the sea there was a marked improvement in quality; a Bee-eater appeared over the Gorse Field mid-evening, whilst a male Red-backed Shrike frequented hedges immediately west of the Golf Course. The ever elusive Common Rosefinch also appeared briefly in the Bay Brambles early afternoon. A Chiffchaff that moved through the environs of Old Fall Steps may have been a late migrant.
