15th June 2024

Relatively light winds, variable in direction throughout, with overcast skies, sunny intervals and heavy showers; temperatures reached 15 degrees C. Seawatching produced three Teal, 23 Sandwich Terns, a Red-throated Diver and 11 Manx Shearwaters. A Short-eared Owl again hunted cliff top fields near North Landing. Elsewhere, single Gadwall and Dunlin were on the outer head, while a Wheatear and cliff top Reed Warbler were late spring migrants.

Visible migration at RSPB Bempton Cliffs included 11 Lesser black-backed Gulls, 353 Swifts, 81 House Martins and 294 Starlings.

Sedge Warbler, Thornwick, by Dean Evans