A relatively overcast day, with only occasional sunny intervals; feeling cool in an increasingly strong south-easterly wind, with a maximum of 11 degrees C. Despite the temperatures, there was an impressive Mediterranean flavour to the birding. Headlining was a male Ashy-headed Wagtail on the Golf Course; initially seen at distance mid-morning, it wasn’t until most golfers had left in the afternoon that the bird settled down. An early Bee-eater flew west over Old Fall at 0845hrs and a Nightjar was flushed near Roadside Pool, but perhaps even more surprising, was the discovery of a Cory’s Shearwater only 400m offshore from RSPB Bempton Cliffs at 0858hrs; it eventually drifted north-west. Additional sightings included a Common Sandpiper, two House Martins, a Grasshopper Warbler, three Singing Sedge Warblers, a singing Reed Warbler, three Yellow Wagtails, a Channel Wagtail, a Grey Wagtail and three White Wagtails.
Other sightings from RSPB Bempton Cliffs included five Shelduck, a Sedge Warbler, 15 Wheaters and a Yellow Wagtail.
