Saturday, 17 September 2011

17th September, 2011 Beachy Head. Overcast with odd showers. SW 6

Sea-watched from 07.00-09.15 & 10.15-11.45. We then looked in Belle Tout wood and walked the rough field:

Fulmar 1 W
Sooty Shearwater 1 W @ 10.42 DC
Balearic Shearwater 1 light phase W @ 07.20 DC, JFC. BK.
Gannet Approx. 40
Brent Goose 27 W
Common Scoter 9E & 3W
Ringed Plover 1W
Curlew 1W
Bonxie 2 (1E & 1W)
Med Gull 1ad. E
Lesser Black Back Gull 81 (61 E virtually all juvs. & 20 in field)
Sandwich Tern 2 W
Common Tern 21 W
Arctic Tern 2 W
Sand Martin 1
Swallow 150 SE
Meadow Pipit 100 in rough field.
Whinchat 2
Wheatear 3
Sedge Warbler 1
Linnet 80
Corn Bunting 8

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