A bright day, with a moderate north-north-easterly wind and a top temperature of eight degrees C. Seawatch highlights included four Pintail, three Goldeneye, two Bonxies, four Red-throated Divers and 23 Manx Shearwaters moving north; two Sandwich Terns headed south.
Two Green Sandpipers that flew south-west over the headland were the year’s first, while a Merlin hunted North Marsh early morning. Two Hooded Crows fed on recently tilled fields at the latter location; additional passerine migrants included three Wheatear, a Tree Pipit at South Dykes, a Grasshopper Warbler in the Bay Brambles, four Lesser Whitethroats, five Siskin and a Brambling.
Two Short-eared Owls graced Buckton/RSPB Bempton Cliffs, with a lone Wheatear at the former site.
