3rd March 2019

An overcast day that featured increasingly strong south-west winds, light rain from early afternoon and temperatures that reached nine degrees C. During the seawatch, a second calendar-year Yellow-legged Gull flew south, whilst a significant feeding frenzy formed off the headland that included 550 Herring Gulls. 

The Barnacle Goose visited Stainforth’s Flash early morning, whilst a Water Rail was heard ‘singing’ at Thornwick Pools. Passerines included a Chiffchaff at Oceanview, two Siskins in the village and a Lapland Bunting near North Landing.

Chiffchaff, Oceanview, by Andy Hood