A warm day with variable cloud cover in alight westerly backing easterly by early afternoon. Maximum temperature 24°C.
Seawatching highlights included three Roseate Terns, a Cory’s Shearwater flying north and juvenile Caspian and Yellow-legged Gulls. In addition, there were 353 Common and 208 Sandwich Terns, an Arctic Skua, two Great Skuas and nine Manx Shearwaters and a Little Egret. Two Knot flew south.
Again, there were good numbers of passerine migrants on the Outer Head including 70 Willow Warblers, 44 Whitethroats, 24 Lesser Whitethroats, a Redstart, four Whinchats, two Wheatears, a Pied Flycatcher, 15 Yellow Wagtails and two Crossbills. Over two hundred House Martins continued to to congregate on the Outer Head. Fourteen Whimbrel passed over the lighthouse. Thornwick Pools hosted a Little Egret and two Dunlin. A juvenile Mediterranean Gull was at South Landing and over a hundred Common Scoter in Bridlington Bay.
