The year’s first Long-tailed Skua, an adult, flew north during a morning seawatch that also featured three Common Dolphins moving north; the latter anything but common locally, with a mere handful of records. Also on the move were 177 Common Scoters, single Greenshank and Ruff, 14 Arctic Terns, 490 Common Terns, 263 Sandwich Terns, a juvenile Yellow-legged Gull, 40 Little Gulls, four Arctic Skuas, five Bonxies, eight Sooty Shearwaters and 40 Manx Shearwaters. The most notable passerine record was a Redpoll west over the Bay Brambles.
A Minke Whale was off RSPB Bempton Cliffs, where four Marsh Harriers, eight Willow Warblers, a Reed Warbler, four Whinchat and nine Yellow Wagtails were also recorded.
