Saturday 31 July 2004

31st July 2004 Beachy 6am – 11am


Kestrel 1
Peregrine 1
Cuckoo 1 juv. same individual as the 25th.
Swallow 12
Yellow Wagtail 1
Stonechat 2
Song Thrush 1
Garden Warbler 2
Blackcap 1
Lesser Whitethroat 1
Whitethroat 25
Sedge Warbler 3
Grasshopper Warbler 4 Cow Gap
Reed Warbler 2
Willow Warbler 31
Jay 1

Sunday 25 July 2004

25th July 2004 Beachy 6am – 11am


Gannet 5
Peregrine 1
Common Sandpiper 3 on beach at Cow Gap
Curlew 1 on beach at Cow Gap
Sandwich Tern 1W Cow Gap
Cuckoo 1 juv. in quarry behind toilets just east of Beachy Head Hotel taking caterpillars from the ground. White fringes to upperparts, grey head with white patches on forecrown and ear coverts. Ex.
Swift 99
Swallow 8
Song Thrush 2
Blackcap 1
Lesser Whitethroat 2
Whitethroat 53
Sedge Warbler 2
Reed Warbler 1
Willow Warbler 12
Chiffchaff 1
Long-tailed Tit 2
Bullfinch 2 same
Jay 1
Raven 2

Saturday 24 July 2004

24th July 2004 Beachy 6am – 11am. Weir Wood Reservoir 8.15pm – 8.30pm Ashdown 8.45pm – 9.30pm


Gannet 100 in feeding flock off Cow Gap
Cormorant 9E Cow Gap
Night Heron 1 imm. Plumage recalled a dusky/dingy adult showing some streaking on the neck sides and retaing some white spots on the upperwing coverts. Two long white plumes. Appeared to swim briefly before walking onto a log and flying north never to be seen again.
Lapwing 1 Beachy
Mandarin c.12
Nightjar 1 others heard calling and churring
Swift 74 Beachy
Sand Martin 1 Beachy
Swallow 21 Beachy
Stonechat 4
Song Thrush 2
Blackbird 1
Blackcap 2
Lesser Whitethroat 3
Whitethroat 29
Sedge Warbler 3 including 1 ringed bird in Cow Gap
Reed Warbler 1 ringed
Willow Warbler 20
Chiffchaff 1
Bullfinch 2
Corn Bunting 1