23rd August

Whilst Portland was always peripheral to Storm Lilian its influence put the block any resumption in passerine migration and the rapidly veering breeze after dawn more or less stopped sea passage dead. What odds and ends were garnered from the sea included nothing better than 26 Balearic Shearwaters, 8 Arctic Terns, 2 Arctic Skuas and a Great Skua through off the Bill, whilst the only worthwhile grounded migrant there was a likely lingering Pied Flycatcher. Three Sanderlings, 2 Knot and 2 Whimbrel were the only waders of note at Ferrybridge.