Overcast skies in the morning preceded sunny intervals; light northerly winds and a best of 16 degrees C. Another excellent seawatch with three Great Shearwaters, a Cory’s Shearwater, three juvenile Long-tailed Skuas and two adult Roseate Terns. Four first calendar-year Caspian Gulls also flew past the outer head, as did an adult Great Northern Diver, 222 Little Gulls, a juvenile Black Tern, 125 Sooty Shearwaters, 245 Manx Shearwaters, two Pomarine Skuas, 19 Bonxies and 18 Arctic Skuas. In addition, a Minke Whale was off the Fog Station.
Elsewhere, 40 Tufted Ducks and a first calendar-year Caspian Gull visited Thornwick Lakes, a Hobby hunted Oceanview airspace and seven Golden Plovers flew east. Passerine migrants included a Pied Flycatcher at Old Fall and three Wheatear.
Nine Grey Partridge were on fields between Buckton and Buckton Hall. Sightings from RSPB Bempton Cliffs included a juvenile Marsh Harrier, six Willow Warblers and a Pied Flycatcher.
