Another sunny day, with light easterly winds and temperatures that reached 14 degrees C. Highlights of the morning’s seawatch included two Teal, two Eider, 78 Sandwich Terns and two Common Terns flying south.
The day’s highlights related to a Cetti’s Warbler caught & ringed at North Landing (third Flamborough record) and the mid-morning discovery of a Nightingale in the hedge behind the hide at Thornwick Pools. Typically, after the initial views, it failed to reappear; this represents the first record since April 2010.
The Goshawk remained in residence; at one point it flew strongly out to sea, but later returned, whilst a creamcrown Marsh Harrier overflew South Landing. Thornwick Pools hosted two Little Ringed Plovers, a Ringed Plover, two Dunlin and a Black-tailed Godwit. Migrants included three House Martins, a Firecrest in Old Fall, the year’s first Garden Warbler, two Ring Ouzels and three Fieldfare. There were also four Redstarts, a male Black Redstart between North Landing and Thornwick, 36 Wheatear, the year’s first Tree Pipits (two south over Lighthouse), nine Yellow Wagtails, three White Wagtails, a male Pied Flycatcher and a Brambling.
RSPB Bempton Cliffs attracted six Willow Warblers, four Blackcap, a Sedge Warbler, six Common Whitethroats, three Lesser Whitethroats, four Wheatears and a White Wagtail. Nearby, sightings at Buckton included a Short-eared Owl, three Sedge Warblers, five Common Whitethroats, a Grasshopper Warbler and eight Wheatears.
