Saturday 24 August 2002

24th August 2002 Beachy 6.00am - 12.15pm. Calm and sunny but not hot. Marazion Marsh, Cornwall 8.00pm - 9.00pm

Little Egret 1 flew high NE over Belle Toute area
Garganey 1 imm/fem/drake in eclipse. Overall mottled brown with all-grey bill and pronounced pale supercilium and dark eyestripe. For most of the time it remained obscured by reeds.
Common Buzzard c.8 on drive to Cornwall
Sparrowhawk 1 Beachy
Kestrel c.2 Beachy
Peregrine c.3 Beachy
Water Rail 1 Marazion
Spotted Crake 1 Marazion. Short stubby heavy bill yellowish with a dark tip. Head appeared grey with darker crown all feintlyale spotted. Breast finely spotted appearing greyish. Buff undertail-covers. In flight appeared small with uniform brown wings.
Cuckoo 2 Beachy
Barn Owl 1 at dawn near Ditchling
Swift c.80 Beachy
Green Woodpecker c.5 Beachy
Sand Martin c.30 Beachy
Swallow c.100 Beachy
House Martin c.10 Beachy
Rock Pipit c.4 Beachy
Tree Pipit 2
Yellow Wagtail c.50 Beachy
Grey Wagtail 1 Beachy
Redstart c.20 Beachy
Wheatear c.25 Beachy
Whinchat c.2 Beachy
Blackcap c.5 Beachy
Lesser Whitethroat c.8 Beachy
Whitethroat c.30
Grasshopper Warbler 3
Reed Warbler c.5
Willow Warbler c.5
Chiffchaff c.2
Spotted Flycatcher c.10
Pied Flycatcher 1
Linnet c.30