With heavy rain and SE winds at first almost all the attention was offshore where 11 hrs of seawatching was achieved. Most of the birds were seen after the worst of the rain and included two Velvet Scoters, 966 Common Scoters, five Grey Plover, ten Whimbrel, 57 Bar-tailed Godwits, 19 Little Terns, eight Black Terns, 152 Arctic Terns, 260 Common Terns, 2612 "commic" Terns, 68 Little Gulls, 19 Arctic Skuas, four Pomarine Skuas, two Great Skuas, ten Black-throated Divers, 27 Fulmars, seven Manx Shearwaters and 681 Gannets. A Hobby also came in. A brief foray into the trapping area after the rain produced our first Garden Warbler of the year but very little else.
Two Porpoises and a Grey Seal were feeding offshore.