A relatively overcast day featuring brighter intervals, a light northerly wind and high of 18 degrees C. Seawatch highlights included 80 Common Scoters, 140 Oystercatchers and 63 Redshank south, 639 Common Terns, 366 Sandwich Terns, single juvenile Caspian and Yellow-legged Gulls, 450 Little Gulls (south), five Arctic Skuas, five Bonxies, 13 Sooty Shearwaters and 90 Manx Shearwaters. Three Common Sandpipers and six Whimbrel were on the shore below Beacon Hill, with two Little Egrets feeding in tidal pools at Cattlemere. In addition, seven Wheatear, a Whinchat and a Spotted Flycatcher were on the outer head.
Nine Grey Partridge and two Marsh Harriers were recorded at RSPB Bempton Cliffs along with a Reed Warbler, 25 Common Whitethroats, a Treecreeper, one Pied Flycatcher and four Whinchat; a lone Minke Whale was offshore. The presumed same escaped juvenile Saker that frequented the outer head several weeks ago re-appeared at Bempton.
