A strong northerly blew all day driving in squally showers. Feeling cool with a maximum temperature of 10C.
Seawatching was the main focus of the morning again. The main highlights were a Leach’s Petrel, four Sooty Shearwaters, four Great Northern Divers, 12 Little Auks, Pomarine Skua and four Mediterranean Gulls. Birds seen coming in off included a Short-eared Owl and 10 Snow Buntings. Passing ducks included 2 Red-breasted Mergansers, a Tufted Duck, 31 Wigeon and 17 Teal.
News away from the seawatch point was very sparse until the discovery of a flycatcher at South Landing which was eventually identified as a Taiga Flycatcher and showed to those assembled till dusk. It is 19 days since the individual on the cliffs at the Fog Station, 3km away. Analysis of photographs is currently underway to determine the question of whether this is the same individual or a new bird. Also in the same are was a Goldcrest and a Chiffchaff .
Buckton attracted a Siberian Chiffchaff late afternoon.
