8th December 2017

A sunny day, with moderate and cold west-north-west winds and temperatures that reached three degrees C. Seawatching highlights included four Common Scoter, 33 Red-throated Divers, 195 Fulmars and a Blue Fulmar flying north, along with an adult Mediterranean Gull.

A second-winter Mediterranean Gull was recorded off South Landing, together with 260 Black-headed Gulls, 960 Common Gulls, 1160 Herring Gulls and 130 Great Black-backed Gulls.

Sightings at nearby Sewerby included a Great Northern Diver, 13 Great Crested Grebes and six Purple Sandpipers.

Purple Sandpiper, South Landing, by Alan Walkington