Friday 23 April 2010

23rd April, 2010. Beachy Head

RDME & RHC did a sea-watch for 1.5 hrs and recorded the following: 1 Bonxie, 8 Gannets, 8+ Sandwich Terns, 4 Comic Terns, 12 Scoter, 3 Curlew, 3 Auks, 3 Bar Tailed Godwits, 9 Whimbrel 2 Red Breasted Mergansers, with 3 Swallows & 1 House Martin in.
RDME visited several sites on the Headland & had a party of 4 Ravens, the Tawny Owl in the wood, 1 Blackcap & 2 Lesser Whitethroats. A Peregrine with its prey in the field opposite the wood.
RHC had a single Wheatear.