A moderate north-north-westerly, sunny intervals and increasing cloud with showers prompted a much improved seawatch. Highlights included two Tufted Duck, nine Common Scoter, a Storm Petrel, three Sooty Shearwaters, 73 Manx Shearwaters, two Whimbrel, 11 Common Terns and nine Arctic Terns all flying north. Late afternoon, a Great Shearwater also flew north per Birdguides. In addition, 131 Sandwich Terns, a Pomarine Skua and the year’s first Long-tailed Skua flew south, whilst another Sooty Shearwater lingered offshore.
Thornwick Pools attracted a Turnstone, seven Dunlin, six Redshank and a Ringed Plover. Forty Turnstone were on the beach at Sewerby, two Whimbrel and seven Ringed Plovers at South Dykes and five Dunlin and a Sanderling at South Landing.
A Grasshopper Warbler was also between Sewerby and South Dykes alongside the Golf Course.
