4th September 2023

A sunny day, with light variable winds and temperatures peaking at 20 degrees C. The seawatch was certainly less eventful than yesterday, with a juvenile Caspian Gull and a lone Sooty Shearwater providing the highlights. Waders continued to feature at South Landing, where there were 20 Ringed Plovers, 80 Turnstone, four Knot, three Sanderling and 34 Dunlin. Passerine migrants included a Pied Flycatcher, ten Wheatear and 32 Meadow Pipits.

Elsewhere, the long-staying juvenile Merlin continued to hunt cliff top fields at RSPB Bempton Cliffs.

Turnstone, Knot, Sanderling & Dunlin, South Landing, by June & Malcolm Fox