15th September

It's very rare that a big blow does us any favours at all and today's 50+mph storm was a case in point, with fewer rewards from the sea than on most of the far less turbulent days just lately: 2 Storm Petrels, 2 Arctic Terns and a Little Gull through at Chesil Cove and 7 Balearic Shearwaters, 2 Arctic Skuas, a Sooty Shearwater and a Great Skua through off the Bill were the sum total of worthwhiles from the main watchpoints. Birding on the land was hard work in the blown-out conditions, with the lingering Pied Flycatcher at the Bill and the 2 lingering Little Stints at Ferrybridge the only reports of note.