Today was sunny throughout with a strong Southerly breeze meaning the sea was a little rougher than it has been recently.

In the morning, Mark seawatched from the Obs for an hour or so, it was relatively quiet with the highlight being a dark morph Skua which was unfortunately a little too far out to positively ID, although it was quite acrobatically chasing a Kittiwake, so it was probably an Arctic.

Waders had been on the move again, 40 Curlews, 25 Whimbrels and 11 Redshanks were spread across the Narrows and the South End, and today was the first day for over three weeks that no Common Sandpipers were recorded.

juvenile Dunlin on Solfach

there are still plenty of juvenile Wheatears around the Narrows too

Afterwards, he headed North up to Nant, and was rewarded, when he had very brief views of what he thought was a Melodious Warbler drop into the bushes at Ty Capel. It was very skulking, and wasn't seen again, until later on at the Obs when indeed, a Melodious Warbler turned up and was seen well briefly and aged as an adult. This is the first record since 2016.

Dan headed to the South End later on with George, and it seems that the Southerly winds overnight have produced yet more Yellow-legged Gulls... today, nine individuals were seen and seven of which were different to ones seen already, meaning 11 have been recorded over the last three days.

Juvenile Yellow-legged Gull showing the dark mask, long pink legs, and characteristically long-winged profile

In flight, the whitish head is perhaps a little more apparent, along with the neat black tail band contrasting with white tail

the 'weak' pale panel shows nicely here

Other birds of note were: one Grey Heron, 31 Common Scoters, one Peregrine, one Ringed Plover, nine Turnstones, one Mediterranean Gull, two Common Gulls, one Little Owl, one Sand Martin, 16 Willow Warblers, one Spotted Flycatcher and one Redpoll.