Overcast initially with sunny intervals later; moderate north-north-easterly winds and temperatures reached 17 degrees C. Highlights of another good day’s seawatching included 76 Sooty Shearwaters, 47 Manx Shearwaters and five Balearic Shearwaters. Three Sabine’s Gulls included adult and juvenile feeding in the Kittiwake flock and an additional adult flying north past the Fog Station; a total of 87 Little Gulls also moved north. Skua passage included 49 Bonxies and 39 Arctic Skuas moving north, whilst six Long-tailed Skuas comprised four juveniles and an adult tracking back north and an adult also flew south; two adult Pomarine Skuas flew north. A lone Roseate Tern also fed amongst the terns and Kittiwakes offshore.
Two Bar-tailed Godwits and 25 Dunlin fed on South Landing beach, with 13 Dunlin, two Green Sandpipers and a Gadwall on Thornwick Pools. Passerine migrants included a Ring Ouzel in the Gorse Field and four Pied Flycatchers.
