A day of light, variable winds, prolonged sunny intervals and temperatures reaching 21 degrees C. Seawatching highlights included 43 Common Scoter, a Tufted Duck and a juvenile Mediterranean Gull flying north, with three Manx Shearwaters and an Arctic Skua moving south.
Thornwick Pools attracted a Little Egret. Wader interest included 14 Whimbrel, two Bar-tailed Godwits and four Knot south over the headland, 14 Dunlin and a Ringed Plover on Stainforth’s Flash and three Snipe at Thornwick Pools. A juvenile Merlin was seen at North Landing and a juvenile Yellow-legged Gull below Old Fall. Migrant passerines included 20 Willow Warblers, ten Yellow Wagtails and two Pied Flycatchers. Insect interest included the headland’s first Red-eyed Damselflies, a Common Hawker which represented only the second local record, and a Brown Argus butterfly that gave good views at South Landing.
West of the Dykes, sightings from RSPB Bempton Cliffs included a Pied Flycatcher and eight Willow Warblers.
