Overcast with strong easterly winds and a high of 11 degrees C. Arrivals on the outer head included a Hume’s Warbler at the Golf Course Willows, a Dusky Warbler at Old Fall and a Coues’s Arctic Redpoll trapped and ringed at South Landing. There were relatively few additional migrants, with totals including four Whooper Swans, seven Woodcock, a Short-eared Owl, 86 Mealy Redpoll, a Twite and two Brambling. Seawatch highlights included a Red-necked Grebe, one Red-breasted Merganser, 277 Little Gulls, an Arctic Skua and a Little Auk all flying north. A first-winter Caspian Gull rested on rocks beloew the Seawatch Observatory.
Sightings from Buckton included a Merlin, Waxwing at the Pond and a Spotted Flycatcher, while five Mealy Redpoll and a Raven were recorded at RSPB Bempton Cliffs.
