This weeks migration returns have got poorer by the day, with little to shout about today beyond a Black Tern through at Ferrybridge, a Short-eared Owl at the Bill and the lingering Turtle Dove still at Sweethill. Chiffchaffs continued to top the grounded totals even though they only managed 25 at the Bill, where Swallows were arriving quite steadily and would likely have totalled 500 or more had their passage been fully quantified. Other than that there was little worthy of comment beyond another 2 Great Northern Divers through off the Bill.
For the most part it was bafflingly poor on the sea today - what more did we need on this date than a seemingly perfect gentle easterly? - although the sighting by someone who wasn't actually seawatching of this Black Tern passing over Ferrybridge suggests that perhaps Chesil rather than the Bill was the place to have been looking (...although in our attempt there this evening we logged next to nothing!) © John Dadds:
The day's most interesting new arrival at the Bill was this late Short-eared Owl © Martin Cade:
Little Tern fishing by the bridge at Ferrybridge early this morning
— Debra Saunders (@debbyseamist.bsky.social) May 7, 2026 at 10:31 AM
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