31/8/08 Beachy Calm with thunderstorm

Hobby 1

Sand Martin 10
Swallow 20
Yellow Wagtail 2
Grey Wagtail 1
Tree Pipit h
Wheatear 2
Sedge Warbler 1
Willow Warbler 10
Spotted Flycatcher 2

30/8/08 Beachy SE2

Marsh Harrier 1

Honey Buzzard 1 ad. female Hollow
Sparrowhawk 2
Peregrine 1
Swallow 44
House Martin 25
Sand Martin 52
Yellow Wagtail 18
Tree Pipit 3
Redstart 1
Wheatear 6
Whinchat 7
Willow Warbler 4
Whitethroat 13
Lesser Whitethroat 4
Blackcap 1
Spotted Flycatcher 3

26/8/08 English Channel

Gannet 10

Sooty Shearwater 1
Storm Petrel 2
Lesser Black-backed Gull 10
Ringed Plover 1
Bonxie 4

25/8/08 Bilbao

Buzzard 1

Lesser Black-backed Gull 6
Yellow-legged Gull 150
Black-headed Gull 6
Red-rumped Swallow 1 juv.
Blackbird 1
Tree Pipit 3
Black Redstart 3
Dunnock 1
Wren h

Pied Flycatcher 2

Red-backed Shrike 5
Fan-tailed Warbler 2
Sardinian Warbler 5
Garden Warbler 1
Blackcap 2
Melodious Warbler 4
Willow Warbler 5
Firecrest 2
Greenfinch 2
Serin 6
Cirl Bunting 6
Magpie 10

Sailing north from Bilbao

Gannet 1
Manx Shearwater 1
LITTLE SHEARWATER 7 ex.
Sooty Shearwater 2
Cory’s Shearwater 1
Black Tern 5
Commic Tern 6
Sabine’s Gull 26
Arctic Skua 15
Bottlenose Dolphin 12
Striped Dolphin 20
Sunfish 1
Fin Whale 20
Cuvier’s Beaked Whale 3
Long-finned Pilot Whale 6

24/8/08 Off Channel Islands to rounding Ouessant

Gannet 50

Fulmar 7
Manx Shearwater 5
Balearic Shearwater 3
Sooty Shearwater 2
Cory’s Shearwater 1
Storm Petrel 10
Bonxie 6
Lesser Black-backed Gull 15
Greater Black-backed Gull 1
Black-headed Gull 1
Sabine’s Gull 3 Ad.
Arctic Skua 1
Commic Tern 3
Common Tern 20
Arctic Tern 1
Grey Phalarope 1 w/p
Sunfish 4
Common Dolphin 40
Fin Whale 15
Sperm Whale 2

23/8/08 Midrips

Shag 1E

Marsh Harrier 1
Sanderling 3
Greenshank 1
Bar-tailed Godwit 1
Avocet 6

22/8/08 Pett

Dunlin 50

Snipe 1

21/8/09 Weirwood Reservoir Calm

Wood Sandpiper 1

Black Tern 1 ad.

17/8/08 Pett SW4

Little Stint 2

Dunlin 10
Little Ringed Plover 1
Greenshank 24

Midrips

Curlew Sandpiper 4ad.
Dunlin 50

Pett

Curlew Sandpiper 3ad
Spotted Redshank 1 ad.

16/8/08 Beachy S2

Kestrel 2

Lesser Black-backed Gull 24 adults on Birling beach
Swift 45
Sand Martin 20
Swallow 8
Whinchat 2
Wheatear 25
Grasshopper Warbler 1
Garden Warbler 3
Whitethroat 18
Lesser Whitethroat 1
Blackcap 1
Willow Warbler 1
Crossbill 5

10/8/08 Carter’s Flood, Pett

Greenshank 2

Green Sandpiper 2

Castle Water

Green Sandpiper 2

Midrips

Montagu’s Harrier 1s male black wedges to undersides of primaries – outer primaries grey
Knot 6
Dunlin 100
Reed Warbler 1

9/8/08 Beachy SW3

Sandwich Tern 2W

Scoter 2W
Swallow 2
Wheatear 1
Sedge Warbler 1
Reed Warbler 1
Willow Warbler 17
Whitethroat 3
Lesser Whitethroat 1