Sunday 16 February 2003

16th February 2003 Cuckmere Haven 8.00am – 9.30am, Birling Seawatch 9.45am – 10.30am, Pevensey Marsh and Cooden Beach 11.00am – 12.00, Barcombe 12.30am – 2pm, Chailey Common 3pm – 4pm. Overcast so no frost but cold with light NE wind

Red-throated Diver c.30E Birling
Little Grebe c.4 Cuckmere
Great Crested Grebe c.35 off Cooden Beach
Fulmar c.5 Birling
Little Egret c.3 Cuckmere
Grey Heron 1 Pevensey
Mute Swan c.10
White-fronted Goose 10 Cuckmere, 12 Pevensey
Bean Goose 4 rossicus Cuckmere. Three had typical bills with small pinkish band, other had more extensive area of orange/pink extending along the bill. All were short-necked. All had same bill structure being thick along its length looking chubby. Three were very dark headed, the other less so. Vertical bands on side of neck. Distinct white edgings to coverts and tertials. Orange legs.
Canada Goose c.100 Cuckmere, c.30 Pevensey
Shoveler 1 drake Cuckmere
Wigeon c.100 Cuckmere
Teal c.2 Cuckmere
Scoter 2E Birling, 2E Cooden Beach, c.100 distantly on sea off Cooden Beach likely this species
Red Kite 1 Barcombe. Appeared a juvenile as belly and undertail-coverts buff not reddish and tail didn’t appear particularly long or deeply forked. Possibly had a white wing tag on upper surface of right wing.
Common Buzzard 1 Barcombe
Sparrowhawk 1 Barcombe
Kestrel c.3
Red-legged Partridge c.2 Ditchling Beacon
Moorhen c.2
Redshank c.3 Cuckmere
Curlew 1 Cuckmere
Black-headed Gull c.50
Common Gull c.100
Mediterranean Gull 1 ad w. on sea off Birling. All-white primaries, black streak through eye.
Guillemot c.10 Birling
Razorbill 1 on sea off Cooden Beach
Auk sp. C.25W Birling c.15E Birling
Stock Dove 1 Chailey Common
Wood Pigeon c.20
Collared Dove c.10 Barcombe
Kingfisher c.2 Cuckmere
Green Woodpecker 2 Cuckmere
Rock Pipit c.3 Birling
Song Thrush 1 Beachy
Redwing c.100 Chailey Common
Mistle Thrush 2 opposite Belle Toute Wood
Fieldfare c.5
Jay 2 Barcombe
Bullfinch 1 male Cuckmere
Snow Bunting 2 Cooden Beach
Yellowhammer 3 Chailey