Another day of moderate/strong north-easterly winds, overcast skies and occasional showers. Seawatching produced four Scaup south, two Velvet Scoter, eight Sooty Shearwaters and a juvenile Long-tailed Skua flying north.
The day’s highlight was undoubtedly the evening discovery of a Paddyfield Warbler at the southern end of the ‘motorway hedge’; which runs along the eastern edge of the Gorse Field, south of the Lighthouse. It moved between the edge of the lighthouse grassland and the hawthorn bushes where the hedge ‘dog legs’; best viewed from the grassland field.
Two Great Grey Shrikes were present on the outer head, including one remaining in the vicinity of Old Fall, whilst three Shore Larks were discovered late on with Skylarks south of the Lighthouse. Two Pallas’s Warblers were new in, with one in South Landing and the other at Whelkie Wynds; the latter at one point chased by a Great Grey Shrike! Three Yellow-browed Warblers remained, whilst a Firecrest was located at Thornwick.
Additional migrants included four Woodcock, a Jack Snipe, three Ring Ouzel, 1020 Redwing, 30 Fieldfare, 175 Robins, 470 Goldcrests, a Garden Warbler, 20 Brambling and six Mealy Redpolls.
West of the Dykes, single Pallas’s Warbler, Red-breasted Flycatcher and Mealy Redpoll showed at Bempton Cliffs RSPB and a Ring Ouzel was at Buckton.
