28th January 2007 Beachy Seawatch 8.45am-9.45am WNW3-4 Overcast and cold

Brent Goose 6W

Wigeon 1W
Red-throated Diver 4E, 2W, 1 on sea
Great Crested Grebe 1W
Fulmar 10
Gannet 14
Little Egret 2
Black-headed Gull 40
Common Gull 5
Herring Gull 6
Great Black-backed Gull 150
Kittiwake 15
Guillemot 1W
Razorbill 31W
Auk sp. 130W
Rock Pipit h
Pied Wagtail 1
Stonechat 1
Jackdaw 10

Lesser Canada Goose 3 found in the Upper Cuckmere. Most closely resembling parvipes). Two-thirds the size of Canada Geese, smaller-billed, being dark-breasted. Just south of Charleston reedbed.

Three Lesser Canada Geese in the Upper Cuckmere (Ian Barnard)

looking typically alert and wary . . .