A day of light northerly winds, sunny intervals and temperatures peaking at 16 degrees C. The morning’s seawatch highlight was a juvenile Sabine’s Gull that flew north at relatively close range at 0845hrs; 25 Little Gulls also moved in the same direction. Wildfowl passage included two Shoveler, two Pintail, 63 Common Scoters and a Red-breasted Merganser. A juvenile Long-tailed Skua tracked north along with a Sooty Shearwater; a first-winter Caspian Gull attended ploughing near Old Fall. Migrant passerines were more evident than recent days with a three Goldcrest, a Spotted Flycatcher, three Wheatear, two Whinchat, a Common Redstart and two Grey Wagtails present.
