5th June 2022

An overcast day, with rain arriving early afternoon and temperatures only reaching 12 degrees C. Seawatching was quiet, with a Red-throated Diver, seven Manx Shearwaters and six Sandwich Terns the sole records of note. Thornwick Pools continued to host a Common Sandpiper and a Dunlin, with two Teal new arrivals; a Hobby overflew the same site in the morning. Passerine migrants were absent, with a Grasshopper Warbler in the Lighthouse Grassland almost certainly in temporary residence for the summer. The Black-browed Albatross showed well sporadically throughout at RSPB Bempton Cliffs, where a lone Bonxie was also present.

Ringed Plover, Thornwick Pools, by Brett Richards