30th August 2009 Beachy Head Calm to W3 Clear at dawn becoming overcast

Little Egret 1W 2E
Sparrowhawk 4
Hobby 1
Sand Martin 20
Swallow 20
Tree Pipit 1
Pied Wagtail 2
Yellow Wagtail 13W
Whinchat 1
Wheatear 3
Blackcap 5
Whitethroat 10
Reed Warbler 2
Willow Warbler 10
Chiffchaff 2
Spotted Flycatcher 1
Linnet 50

Moulting Male Linnet at Birling Gap

Old Belle Tout Lighthouse viewed from Shooters Bottom under heavy skies

Sparrowhawk over Shooters Bottom

Small Heath Butterfly at Belle Tout

29th August 2009 Beachy Head W2 Clear

Little Egret 2
Common Buzzard 1 being chased by Crows over the Top Fields
Kestrel 2
Dunlin h
Collared Dove 7W at Birling Gap Lane
Swift 1
Great Spotted Woodpecker 2 at Birling Gap Lane
Sand Martin 20
Swallow 10
Tree Pipit 5
Yellow Wagtail 8W
Grey Wagtail 2W
Dunnock 12
Redstart 3
Whinchat 3
Wheatear 120
Song Thrush 1
Blackcap 3
Lesser Whitethroat 4
Whitethroat 20
Sedge Warbler 5
Reed Warbler 1
Grasshopper Warbler 2
Willow Warbler 35
Pied Flycatcher 3

Juvenile Great Spotted Woodpecker at the top of Birling Gap Lane

Sedge Warbler in Shooters Bottom

Pied Flycatcher in the Old Trapping Area

Sedge Warbler in the Beachy Head Hotel Garden

Reed Warbler in the Beachy Head Hotel Garden

Cow Gap Beach and the Ledge

Wheatears above Belle Tout Wood

Looking north east from above Belle Tout Wood

24th August 2009 Northern Bay of Biscay and English Channel

Storm Petrel 10
Gannet 100
Bonxie 10
Lesser Black-backed Gull 10
Great Black-backed Gull 1
Sandwich Tern 3

23rd August 2009 Serantes foothills, northern Spain and southern Bay of Biscay

Cory's Shearwater 12
Great Shearwater 1
Sooty Shearwater 1
Gannet 2
Grey Heron 1
Griffon Vulture 4
Honey Buzzard 1
Kestrel 1
Black-headed Gull 5
Lesser Black-backed Gull 5
Yellow-legged Gull 400
Arctic Tern 1
Collared Dove 10
Wryneck 2
Swallow 10
House Martin 20
Tree Pipit 5
Wren 1
Robin 2
Nightingale h
Black Redstart 1
Stonechat 3
Wheatear 1
Blackbird 2
Song Thrush 1
Cetti's Warbler h
Fan-tailed Warbler 1
Melodious Warbler 6
Sardinian Warbler 4
Whitethroat 5
Garden Warbler 1
Blackcap 3
Willow Warbler 5
Goldcrest h
Pied Flycatcher 1
Great Tit 2
Red-backed Shrike 6
Magpie 10
Carrion Crow 2
Raven 5
House Sparrow 20
Chaffinch 2
Serin 2
Greenfinch 2
Goldfinch 3

Cuvier's Beaked Whale 3
Cleopatra Butterfly 1
Hummigbird Hawk Moth 1

Serantes foothills

The Pride of Bilbao viewed from the foothills

Melodious Warbler in the Serantes foothills

Female Sardinian Warbler in the Serantes foothills

Cleopatra Butterfly in the Serantes foothills

Hummingbird Hawk Moth in the Serantes foothills

The coast leaving Bilbao

Juvenile Yellow-legged Gull off Bilbao

Cuvier's Beaked Whale in the Bay of Biscay

22nd August 2009 English Channel to the Bay of Biscay W2 Clear

Fulmar 2
Cory's Shearwater 7
Manx Shearwater 4
Storm Petrel 5
Gannet 125
Sanderling 10
Curlew 2
Grey Phalarope 3 w/p
Bonxie 5
Sabine's Gull 13 s/p adults
Lesser Black-backed Gull 120
Herring Gull 1
Kittiwake 3
Common Tern 2
Black Tern 3

Ocean Sunfish 1
Common Dolphin c.300
Bottlenose Dolphin 10
Long-finned Pilot Whale 5
Fin Whale 3

A fraction of the birders / whale-watchers aboard the Pride of Bilbao

Common Dolphins seen from the Observation Deck

Sunset over the Bay of Biscay

15th August 2009 Beachy Head Overcast W3

Sparrowhawk 1
Kestrel 1
Common Swift 2
Swallow 10
Whinchat 2
Garden Warbler 2
Blackcap 3
Lesser Whitethroat 3
Whitethroat 10
Reed Warbler 1

Autumn Lady's-tresses at Birling Gap

Cow Gap Gully looking east towards Eastbourne

Juvenile Herring Gull off Cow Gap Gully

Juvenile Lesser Black-backed Gull off Cow Gap Gully

Common Swift over Whitbread Hollow

Painted Lady at Hodcombe

Field Vole at Hodcombe

11th August 2009 Weirwood Reservoir and Chelwood Gate

Little Egret 1

Mandarin 10

Wood Sandpiper 5

Greenshank 2

Nightjar 1 male singing, calling and seen in flight at Chelwood Gate

West end of Weirwood Reservoir

Greenshank at Weirwood Reservoir

Wood Sandpiper at Weirwood Reservoir