Another day of strong north-easterly winds but plenty of dry weather meant migrant birds were found across many parts of the Outer Headland producing an excellent variety of birds.
With most people concentrating on birds on the land there were only a couple of short sea-watches which produced 2 Long-tailed Skua, 7 Pomarine Skua, 10 Great Skua, 13 Little Auk, 1 Red-necked Grebe, 9 Red-breasted Merganser, 103 Little Gull and 20 Eider. The first Goldeneye of the autumn flew north.
A Radde’s Warbler was present in the gorse-field near the lighthouse, presumably the same bird since Sunday pinned down by the bad weather. North Marsh had 90 Teal and 35 Wigeon but the hedges and fields around the headland produced an excellent mix of migrants. 3 Yellow-browed Warbler, Holmes Gut, Old Fall and Booted Gully 2 Long-eared Owl, 2 Short-eared Owl, 3 Jack Snipe, 2 Great-grey Shrike one in Old Fall hedge and 1 at Hartendale, one or two Shore Lark close to Booted Gulley, Siberian Chiffchaff in Old Fall, 15 Chiffchaff, at least 8 Ring Ouzel, 50+ Brambling, 16 Blackcap, 100+ Redwing, 2 Fieldfare, and 100+ Goldcrest.
Buckton had Yellow-browed Warbler, 4 Brambling, 10 Redwing, 2 Ring Ouzel, Swallow, Whitethroat, 5 Stonechat, Siskin, 5 Chiffchaff, and 100 Goldcrest,
