Saturday 29 March 2014

29th March 2014 Birling Gap 6.15am-11.25am ESE4 Hazy

Red-throated Diver 21E, 1W, 4 on sea
Black-necked Grebe 8E on sea (a flock of 3, a single and then a flock of 4)
small Grebe sp. 5E on sea - too distant (2, 2 & 1)
Gannet 85E, 2W
Canada Goose 2W
Brent 190E
Barnacle Goose 1E
Shelduck 10E, 1W
Eider 2E
Merganser 38E
Scoter 604E
Gadwall 2E
Pintail 4E
Shoveler 36E
Teal 2E
Arctic Skua 3E
Kittiwake 135E
Mediterranean Gull 2E
Black-headed Gull 18E
Little Gull 9E
Sandwich Tern 18E
Auk sp. 2E
Curlew 6E
Redshank 4E
alba Wagtail 1 over
Meadow Pipit 10N
Chiffchaff 3
Linnet 15 in off

Harbour Porpoise 1+

Black-necked Grebes in the surf off Birling
If all thirteen small Grebes seen were Black-necked, as they quite possibly were, it would represent the second largest passage day count for the County per the new Birds of Sussex


Barnacle Goose tagged on to the back of a flock of Brent Geese off Birling

Brent & Barnacle?
 
Rodmell
Ringed Plover 1
 
Lewes Pheonix Theatre on fire viewed from Rodmell