24th March 2002 Beachy 6.30am - 1.30pm. Seawatched for 90 minutes then walked Birling and Belle Toute areas, Cow Gap & Hollow and Hotel Gardens. Cold with frost at dawn with light E wind

Red-throated Diver c.15E good light and close making them identifiable with single full s/p individual seen

Great Crested Grebe 1W
Fulmar c.15
Gannet c.15E adults
Cormorant 2
Mute Swan 6 in flight Cuckmere
Canada Goose c.10 including individual resembling Cackling Goose in Cuckmere
Brent Goose c.60E including single individual with albino head
Pintail 6E including 5 drakes
Wigeon c.16E
Teal 2E
Scoter c.80E
Red-breasted Merganser c.7E
Sparrowhawk 1
Kestrel c.3
Red-legged Partridge 2 roadside
Pheasant c.5
Dunlin 6E
Black-headed Gull c.40E including many 1^st-w.
Common Gull c.50 Cuckmere
Herring Gull c.20
Kittiwake c.500E a good passage
Sandwich Tern c.12E
Auk sp. c.5E
Wood Pigeon c.10
Skylark c.15 including several singing
Meadow Pipit c.20 but no obvious passage
Wren c.1
Dunnock c.5
Robin c.2
Black Redstart 2 around Beachy Head Hotel  - dull individuals
Stonechat c.5
Chiffchaff 1h briefly singing
Great Tit c.2
Blue Tit c.4
Long-tailed Tit 2 Hollow
Magpie c.15 including a parliament of 12 in the Hollow
Jackdaw c.25
Rook c.10
Carrion Crow c.15
Starling c.60
House sparrow 1 Birling
Chaffinch c.5
Linnet c.20 with some apparently arriving and several singing birds
Goldfinch c.10
Corn Bunting 1