The decidedly unsettled conditions of recent weeks turned particularly unpleasant today with it feeling chilly throughout as frequent heavy showers rolled in off the Channel. Passerine passage was reduced to a handful of new
Chiffchaffs and
Goldcrests on the land and a trickle of
Meadow Pipits and
alba wagtails through overhead. A blustery afternoon saw
Manx Shearwaters get moving in small numbers - including 83 through off the Bill - whilst earlier 28
Common Scoter, 10
Red-throated Divers, 3
Arctic Skuas and singles of
Great Skua,
Yellow-legged Gull and
Sandwich Tern had passed by there between the showers; elsewhere, lower numbers of the same seabird selection passed through off Chesil and a
Kittiwake headed through at Ferrybridge.
One of this morning's Red-throated Divers passing the Bill © Martin Cade: