The day featured light/moderate southerly winds and sunny intervals and temperatures reached 24 degrees C. During the seawatch, a Red-throated Diver, one Grey Heron and 11 Teal flew south. Waders also moving south included 39 Oystercatchers, a Grey Plover, 49 Knot, a Bar-tailed Godwit and ten Whimbrel. Two Bonxies flew south, together with 85 Little Gulls and a Yellow-legged Gull. A total of 261 Sandwich Terns headed north, whilst a southerly movement of terns during the evening involved 332 Common, 97 Arctic and 263 Commic Terns.
A Marsh Harrier flew in off the sea during the morning and two ‘creamcrown’ Marsh Harriers were later hunting over fields near Old Fall. A Greenshank visited North Marsh, 11 Lapwings flew over Greenacres and four Dunlin were on Thornwick Pools.
A Hummingbird Hawkmoth was seen in the village and a Banded Demoiselle at Thornwick was an exceptional local record.
