A day of moderate south-easterly winds, generally overcast skies and temperatures reaching nine degrees C. Seawatch highlights included 108 Cormorants, 428 Herring Gulls and a Lesser Black-backed Gull moving south. Thornwick Pools attracted two Gadwall, 30 Teal and a Scandinavian Rock Pipit; the Siberian Chiffchaff was still present nearby. Early spring migrants included 250 Starlings, 61 Fieldfare, 22 Redwing, two Goldcrests, seven Chiffchaff, a White Wagtail, three Siskin and a Brambling. Sightings from the Buckton/Bempton area included a Woodcock, one Short-eared Owl, three Fieldfare and ten Lapland Buntings.


