Saturday 4 March 2006

4th March 2006 Beachy 7.00am – 1.00pm. Seawatch to 8.15am. NW2 Cold Sunny


Brent Goose 3E
Shelduck 2 on sea off Birling
Scoter 1E
Red-breasted Merganser 3E
Pheasant 1 Cow Gap slopes
Red-throated Diver 2E, 4 on sea
Great Crested Grebe 2E
Fulmar 10
Cormorant 3W
Sparrowhawk 2
Common Buzzard 1
Kestrel 1
Oystercatcher 12 on beach at Birling
Curlew 1
Black-headed Gull 25
Common Gull 150 Birling, 50 fields
Lesser Black-backed Gull 3
Herring Gull 5
Great Black-backed Gull 15
Kittiwake 1E
Guillemot 1E
Auk sp. 45E
Feral Pigeon 1
Stock Dove 1E Hotel Garden
Wood Pigeon 11
Tawny Owl 2
Skylark 100
Rock Pipit 2
Grey Wagtail 1 Sewage Farm
Wren 3
Dunnock 4
Robin 4
Stonechat 2
Blackbird 9
Song Thrush 5
Goldcrest 1
Long-tailed Tit 2
Blue Tit 7 of which a flock of 4 flew off east high from Belle Toute wood following a party of 6 Great Tits
Great Tit 14 of which a flock of 6 flew off east high from Belle Toute wood
Magpie 12
Jackdaw 20
Rook 10
Carrion Crow 5
Raven 3 flew east at Cow Cap – presumably 2 in pursuit of an interloper
Starling 50
House Sparrow 5
Chaffinch 7 some in song
Greenfinch 3
Goldfinch 12
Linnet 70
Redpoll 1 flew west below old lighthouse and landed in treetops in Belle Toute wood
Bullfinch 1 Hollow
Corn Bunting 1