Another day of south-westerlies. The temperature maximum was 13°C generally bright skies in the morning and afternoon showers.
Seawatching was productive with highlights of 43 Pink-footed Geese, three Velvet Scoter, three Great Northern Divers, three Manx Shearwaters, a Little Egret, two Arctic Terns and three Woodcock in off. It was the gulls that stole the show though, with a juvenile Sabine’s Gull north at 11:15, 95 Little Gulls, a Caspian Gull and a Yellow-legged Gull, both first-winters, and an apparent adult Baltic Gull.
Thornwick Pools still held the Goosander while 299 Pink-footed Geese and eight Whooper Swans passed south. Woodcock numbered 7, including one carried in off by a Peregrine. Migrant passerines were few and included two Swallows, four Chiffchaff, seven Goldcrest.
A Short-eared Owl was mobbed by a Peregrine as it came in off at Bempton Cliffs RSPB.
