30th May 2005 Beachy 6.30am – 12.00pm. Overcast, calm

Heron 1

Common Buzzard 1E Beachy Head Hotel
Peregrine 2
Collared Dove 2
Swift 40
House Martin 3
Red-rumped Swallow 1 ex. found over 'corner field' at Birling before it departed west
Swallow 15
Black Redstart 1
Whitethroat 2
Yellowhammer 1

29th May 2005 Beachy 6.30am – 12.00pm. Calm and Sunny

Great Crested Grebe 1W

Commic Tern 7W
Sandwich Tern 2
Arctic Skua 3
Swift 100
House Martin 2
Swallow 2
Whitethroat 4
Firecrest 1 singing Old Trapping Area
Yellowhammer 1

28th May 2005 Shoreham by Sea 6.30am – 8.00am, Southease 8.30am – 10.30am. Overcast with cold strong west wind

Hobby 1 Southease
Gull-billed Tern 1 2-s with noticeable contrast between dark-washed outer primaries and whiter inner primaries

Gull-billed Tern at Shoreham (Paul Norris)

26th May 2005 Shoreham

Bee-eater 2 ex.

Bee-eaters at Shoreham (Tim Corke)

22nd May 2005 Beachy 6am – 12pm

Manx Shearwater 1 at 9.30am

Gannet 30
Scoter 12
Sandwich Tern 10
Arctic Skua 2
Auk sp 4

21st May 2005 Beachy 6am – 12pm SW4 Overcast

Gannet 185E

Scoter 30E
Kestrel 1
Commic Tern 10E
Sandwich Tern 10W, 3E
Kittiwake 25E
Black-headed Gull 3E
Bonxie 2E
Guillemot 1E
Swallow 15
Lesser Whitethroat h
Whitethroat 5

15th May 2005 Beachy 6.15am – 12.30pm ENE 1-2 Sunny

Black-throated Diver 1

Diver sp. 3
Manx Shearwater 3W
Gannet 54
Bar-headed Goose 1 at 8.10am
Scoter 353
Avocet 2
Sanderling 5
Whimbrel 2
Sandwich Tern 33
Commic Tern 996
Roseate Tern 1 at 7.55am ex.
Little Tern 4
Black Tern 4
Little Gull 7 1^st-s
Arctic Skua 2
Auk sp. 4
Spotted Flycatcher 2

14th May 2005 Mieckle Loch 4.00am – 5.30am, Ythan Estuary 5.45am – 7.00am, Blackdog 7.15am – 8.30am, Braemar route west and south via Crieff

Red-throated Diver c.15 on sea off Blackdog

Pink-footed Goose 12
Tufted Duck c.15
Tufted Duck x Ring-necked Duck hybrid 1 drake
Eider c.200
Scoter c.150
Goldeneye 14
BARROW’S GOLDENEYE 1 adult drake UK489
Buzzard c.10
Osprey 1
Red-legged Partridge 3
Red Grouse 1
Oystercatcher c.50
Curlew 1 displaying near Crieff
Common Sandpiper 2
Knot 1 summer plumage
Arctic Tern c.20
Razorbill c.5
Dipper 1
Wheatear 1 displaying
Sedge Warbler c.5
Siskin 2

Drake Barrow's Goldeneye on the Ythan Estuary (Pete Wragg)

13th May 2005 M40 near High Wycombe c.6.30pm

Red Kite 14

8th May 2005 Beachy 6.30am – 12.30pm

Gannet 7

Swift 1
Swallow 13
House Martin 16
Wheatear 3
Sedge Warbler 1
Wood Warbler 1 Gulley below Cow Gap singing similar to Bonelli’s at first!
Willow Warbler 4 + 1h
Chiffchaff 4
Blackcap 6
Whitethroat 10

7th May 2005 Beachy 7am – 12.30pm Sunny NW4

Swift 2

Swallow 36
House Martin 10
Wheatear 1
Reed Warbler 1 + 2h
Willow Warbler 2
Blackcap 1
Lesser Whitethroat 3 + 3h
Whitethroat 20

2nd May 2005 Beachy 5.45am – 2.15pm Calm with rain at dawn

Diver sp. 5

Scoter 87
Gadwall 1
Whimbrel 33
Black-headed Gull 11
Sandwich Tern 28
Little Tern 5
Arctic Skua 7
Pomarine Skua 13 (pack at 12.30pm)
Shelduck 4
Commic Tern 832 including a single Arctic Tern – dark belly, short necked, long tail streamers
Collared Dove 3
Tree Pipit h
Chiffchaff 4
Willow Warbler 4
Firecrest 1

1st May 2005 Beachy 5.30am – 12.00pm Cuckmere 12.15pm – 12.45pm SE2 becoming foggy

Manx Shearwater 2
Gannet 38
Brent 23
Shelduck 8
Shoveler 1
Scoter 391
Black-winged Stilt 1 Cuckmere browner mantle/wings, grayer on nape and legs brighter than Pulborough bird
Whimbrel 7
Bar-tailed Godwit 1
Dunlin 1
Mediterranean Gull 2 (together both 2s with some black on primaries)
Black-headed Gull 15
Black Tern 2
Commic Tern 185
Sandwich Tern 107
Little Tern 5
Bonxie 2
Arctic Skua 9
Pomarine Skua 7 (1 LP 6.35, 2LP & 1DP 7.00, 1LP 7.40, 1LP 8.10, 1LP 9.00)
Guillemot 1
Razorbill 3 on sea
Auk sp. 16