Government guidance states: ‘To ensure people are social distancing, the government has prohibited by law all public gatherings of more than two people’ (gov.uk website, 13th May 2020). When contemplating visiting Flamborough, please reflect upon this guidance. Consider how necessary your visit is to an area popular with tourists, many of whom will be concentrated on the outer head, North or South Landing and along the cliff top path.
Overcast for the most part, with a brief shower during the afternoon and a moderate westerly wind; temperatures reached 16 degrees C. The morning’s seawatch was quiet, with two Red-throated Divers flying north and a Manx Shearwater and 11 Sandwich Terns flying south. Notable sightings away from the seawatch included a Gadwall, drake Pintail, two Eider, a Hobby, two Little Ringed Plovers, one Spotted Flycatcher, a Black Redstart, one Whinchat, a Wheatear and a Yellow Wagtail.
