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A day of moderate north-north-east winds, rain until early afternoon and brighter spells by the evening. Seawatching highlights included 14 Wigeon, 32 Teal, two Pintail, a Tufted Duck, two Pochard, 286 Common Scoter, a Velvet Scoter, three Sooty Shearwaters, a Bar-tailed Godwit, one juvenile Long-tailed Skua and a second-winter Mediterranean Gull flying north. A drake Goldeneye flew south, along with a Leach’s Petrel at 1620hrs, whilst four Pomarine Skuas were logged: three adults moved north and a juvenile headed south. Elsewhere, a Barnacle Goose visited Thornwick Pools.
An arrival of passerines was precipitated by the rain which included two Jays, no fewer than nine Yellow-browed Warblers, 14 Coal Tits, 12 Goldcrest, 16 Chiffchaff, one Willow Warbler, a Lesser Whitethroat, eight Blackcap, 145 Redwing, nine Song Thrush, three Ring Ouzel, ten Fieldfare and 89 Brambling.
