Monday 25 May 1998

25/5/98 Beachy Head 6.45am - 9am. Cliffe Pools (C) Kent 12.00 - 2pm. Wind light northerly. Cloudy and cool.

Great Crested Grebe 1C
Pochard 1 C
Tufted Duck c.5 C
Little Gull 1 imm C
Black-headed Gull c. 50C
Common Tern c.5 C
Turtle Dove 1
Swift c.10B   c.150C
PALLID SWIFT 1C milky brown with noticeable darker primaries. Pale throat not particularly obvious. Scaling to underparts seen at close range on one occasion. Appeared smaller, slighter and shorter-tailed than Swift. On one occasion chased by Swift. Watched for 40 minutes hawking along cliff of flooded disused quarry.
Great Spotted Woodpecker 1 in flight near Cliffe Village
Swallow c.10B
House Martin c.4B
Whitethroat c.10
Willow Warbler 1