Over six hours of seawatching produced 323 Common Scoters, 34 Whimbrel, 25 Sanderling, 93 Kittiwakes, two Mediterranean Gulls, 260 Sandwich Terns, three Little Terns, 85 Arctic Terns, three Great Skuas, a Pomarine Skua, 22 Arctic Skuas and two Black-throated Divers of note. There was a small arrival of birds on the land with 13 Willow Warblers, 18 Lesser Whitethroats, a Whinchat, 30 Wheatears and ten Yellow Wagtails.
Eight Porpoises and two Grey Seals were feeding offshore.
An improvement in the weather saw a few butterflies on the wing including the first Grizzled Skippers of the spring.
A search for shieldbugs produced three Rhomboid Shieldbugs and a Pied Shieldbug in front of the Observatory.
Elsewhere, a Hooded Crow made a brief appearance at Cook's Poll on the RSPB Reserve.