Saturday 14 April 2012

14th April, 2012 Beachy Head Fine, clear & cold NE 2

We sea-watched from 06.50-07.50 and we then covered all the areas on the Headland. Met up with RK in the wood:

Red Throated Diver 1 E
Gannet 32 E
Little Egret 1 W off Birling
Common Scoter 52 E
Red Breasted Merganser 3 E
Peregrine 2
Bar-Tailed Godwit 3 E
Arctic Skua 5 E 
Mediterranean Gull 2 E
Sandwich Tern 1 E & 9 W
Auk Sp. 5 E & 1 W
Swallow 16 chiefly in off the sea
White Wagtail 1 S over Belle Tout area
Common Redstart 2 males
Wheatear 6 (At least 3 were Greenlands)
Common Whitethroat 2 (Our first for the year)
Chiffchaff 2
Willow Warbler 1
Long Tailed Tit 2
Tree Creeper 1
Linnet 100 (25 in off the sea)
Corn Bunting 1 near Birling Sewage Farm.

Bottle Nosed Dolphin 2 off Birling

Roger & Liz had in Hodcombe 40 Willow Warblers on the 12th & 25 on the 13th April.



Meadow Pipit near Birling


Male Common Redstart in the Old Trapping Area.




Chiffchaff in Belle Tout wood.





Our first Whitethroat of the year