16th July 2018

A day of sunny intervals and increasing amounts of cloud, with light winds and temperatures that reached 23 degrees C. Seawatch highlights included ten Common Scoter, 11 Manx Shearwaters, a juvenile Little Gull, a juvenile Mediterranean Gull, 458 Sandwich Terns and an Arctic Tern flying north, with a juvenile Yellow-legged Gull flying south. Elsewhere, an adult Mediterranean Gull flew past South Landing, whilst Thornwick Pools attracted a Grey Heron, one Little Ringed Plover, six Dunlin, three Lapwing, a Snipe and three Yellow Wagtails.

Lapwing, Thornwick Pools, by Mike Smith