21st July 2017

Moderate/strong south-south-easterly winds featured throughout a day of sunny intervals. Seawatching highlights included three Manx Shearwaters, a Bar-tailed Godwit, three Whimbrel, five Knot and eight Dunlin moving south, with 55 Sandwich Terns, three Common Terns, one Arctic Tern and a Bonxie heading north. Thornwick Pools attracted five Dunlin and a Green Sandpiper, with a lone Yellow Wagtail flying south over the fog station.

West of the Dykes, sightings from Bempton Cliffs RSPB included a juvenile Yellow-legged Gull, single Arctic Skua and Bonxie, two Wheatears and five Yellow Wagtails flying south. Buckton Pond attracted a single Green Sandpiper.

Puffin, North Landing, by Mark Pearson