A day of sunny intervals and thundery showers, with temperatures peaking at 28 degrees C; winds remained light and generally from a southerly direction. Seawatching highlights included 16 Teal, two Eider and 81 Sandwich Terns flying north, whilst a Sooty Shearwater moved south.
The day’s main feature related to the arrival of waders – Thornwick Pools attracted a Wood Sandpiper, four Green Sandpipers, a Common Sandpiper, three Snipe, six Dunlin, Little Ringed Plover, together with a Little Egret, three Shoveler and five Teal. Stainforth’s Flash hosted one Shelduck, a Ruff, six Dunlin and a Green Sandpiper, with a Greenshank overflying the outer head. Also notable was the arrival of a Wheatear and two Pied Flycatchers on the outer head; the latter the earliest ever autumn arrival.
