Friday 29 March 2013

29th March 2013 Beachy & Cuckmere NE4 Overcast Cold

Red-throated Diver c.20E
Great Crested Grebe 1 on sea
Brent Goose 28E
Scoter 2E
Lesser Black-backed Gull 23 on beach including blue colour-ringed MW.AK
Black-headed Gull 15E
Auk sp. 25E
Wheatear 1


Colour-ringed Lesser Black-backed Gull at Birling
Eric Stienen kindly supplied this bird's life history that revealed it was ringed as an adult at its colony on 04-06-2010 at Zeebrugge (Voorhaven), West-Vlaanderen, Belgium 51°21'0''N 3°11'0''E where all subsequent sightings have been until now on 14-06-2010, 15-04-2011, 27-04-2011, 17-05-2011, 26-05-2011, 07-06-2011, 16-06-2011, 04-04-2012, 18-04-2012, 02-05-2012, 10-05-2012, 17-05-2012 & 06-06-2012.
Cuckmere
Black-necked Grebe 1 transitional
Little Ringed Plover 2 ex.
Chiffchaff 1
 


Little Ringed Plovers in the Cuckmere

Black-necked Grebe in the Cuckmere
 
Chiffchaff amongst the shells in the Cuckmere

ADW in the Cuckmere

ARK in the Cuckmere