28th March 2010 Beachy, Rye, Midrips, Scotney & Icklesham

Beachy Head thick fog

Common Gull c.750

Ternery Pool, Rye Harbour NR

Grey Partridge 2

Avocet 7

Mediterranean Gull c.150

Sandwich Tern c.150

Grey Plover 2

Golden Plover c.75

Knot 5

Sandwich Terns at Rye Harbour NR

Midrips

Avocet 31

Avocets at the Midrips

Icklesham

Swallow 1

Cetti's Warbler h

Chiffchaff 3h singing

27th March 2010 Beachy Head Calm and overcast

Plumpton

Barn Owl 1

Birling Gap Seawatch Calm and overcast 5.45am - 8.15am

Red-throated Diver 4E

Gannet 26E, 12W

Shelduck 3W

Merganser 2E

Scoter 98E

Eider 4E (3 drakes)

Kittiwake 17E

Mediterranean Gull 1 second-Summer

Arctic Skua 1E dark morph at 6.20am

Beachy Head

Rock Pipit 2

Swallow 1

Chiffchaff 2

A heavily abraded and bleached first-winter colour-ringed white-winged Gull resembling a first-winter Iceland Gull in bare part colouration but structurally (angular-headed, long-legged and large-billed) near-identical to the accompanying Herring Gulls so considered most-likely an albino or leucistic first-winter Herring Gull

26th March 2010 Rottingdean 5.30am - 6.00am S4-5, Portobello, Newhaven Ouse

Rottingdean

Great Crested Grebe 1 on sea

Scoter 5E

Portobello Outfall

Fulmar 50

Kittiwake 25

Mediterranean Gull 1 ad summer

Common Gull and an intermedius Lesser Black-backed Gull at Newhaven Ouse

24th March 2010 Rottingdean 5.45am - 7.45am SE3 Cloudy

Red-throated Diver 3E
Great Crested Grebe 1E
Shag 1E
Gannet 5E
Brent Geese 25E
Shelduck 2E
Scoter 25E
Sparrowhawk 1 along seafront
Partridge sp. 1 (presumably Red-legged) Ditchling Beacon
Kittiwake 34E
Sandwich Tern 4E
Curlew 1 in off sea
Woodpigeon 1 in off sea

23rd March 2010 Gatwick

Great Spotted Woodpecker 1

Green Woodpecker 1

Ring-necked Parakeet 1 courtesy of Paul Marten

Ring-necked Parakeet digiscoped at dusk at a shutter speed of 1 second!

22nd March 2010 Burgess Hill

Chiffchaff 1 singing

21st March 2010 Beachy Head Calm with drizzle

Brent Geese 12E

Peregrine 2

Kestrel 1

Black-headed Gull 150E

Golden Plover 1N

Tawny Owl h

Meadow Pipit 30

Stonechat 4 males, 1 female

Black Redstart 2 female-types

Wheatear 2 males

Redwing 2

Chiffchaff 4

Firecrest 1

Raven 2

Goldfinch 5

A pollen-encrusted Chiffchaff at Birling Gap Lane

Meadow Pipit just south of Birling Gap

The Stack at Beachy Head

18th March 2010 Rottingdean 5.45am - 7.45am SE3 Cloudy

Red-throated Diver 2E
Small Grebe sp. Black-necked/Slavonian Grebe 1E very distant
Red-necked Grebe 1 w/p ex. on sea 6.50am - 7.45am
Great Crested Grebe 5E, 10 on sea
Gannet 6E
Brent 284E
Scoter 43E
Shoveler 6E
Pintail 3W, 1E
Wigeon 5E
Teal 10E
Gadwall 6E
Mallard 2E
Curlew 3E
Mediterranean Gull 4E all adult Summer
Black-headed Gull c.250E
Sandwich Tern 2E
Skylark 1E

17th March 2010 Rottingdean 6.00am - 7.45am Calm and clear

Red-throated Diver 5E
Great Crested Grebe 5 on sea
Gannet 5E
Shag 1 on sea
Brent Geese 47E
Red-breasted Merganser 1W, 1E
Eider 5E adult drakes
Scoter 53E
Teal 12E
Black-headed Gull c.200E
Kittiwake 6E
Sandwich Tern 3E
Curlew 1E
Rock Pipit 1

14th March 2010 Ashdown Forest

Stonechat 3
Yellowhammer 1
Reed Bunting 1
Linnet 10
Redpoll h

13th March 2010 Piddinghoe, Pagham North Wall, West Dean Woods and Amberley

Piddinghoe

Garganey pair

Pair of Garganey at Piddinghoe

Littlehampton

Egyptian Goose 1

North Wall, Pagham

Brent Goose c.500

Pale-bellied Brent Goose 2

Black Brant 1

Barnacle Goose 4

Marsh Harrier 1

Fieldfare 50

Redwing 3

Cetti's Warbler 3h

Firecrest 1

Brent Geese over the North Fields

Black Brant at the North Fields at Pagham

Barnacle Geese at the Pagham North Fields

Summer Lane Treatment Works

Green Sandpiper 1

Mediterranean Gull h

Water Pipit 3 ex.

Chiffchaff 2 singing

Water Pipits (with Meadow Pipit in background in one image) at the Summer Lane Treatment Works at Pagham

West Dean Woods

Little Owl 1

Marsh Tit 1

Hawfinch 3 ex.

Little Owl at West Dean Woods

Amberley

Bewick's Swan 37 flew towards Pulborough

Peregrine 1

Black-tailed Godwit c.50

Ruff 6

7th March 2010 Rodmell, Newhaven Harbour, Ouse Project & Upper Cuckmere

Rodmell

Little Egret 3

Red-legged Partridge 2

Common Snipe 2

Skylark 20

Reed Bunting 10

Yellowhammer 6

Lewes Castle from Rodmell

6th March 2010 The Burgh, Amberley, Petworth & West Dean Woods

The Burgh

Bewick's Swan 11 (including 1 juv.)

Buzzard 2

Red-legged Partridge 5

Grey Partridge 10

Corn Bunting 50

Linnet 10

Reed Bunting 5

Yellowhammer 10

Hare 5

Grey Partridges at The Burgh

Reed Bunting at The Burgh

Greenfinch at The Burgh

Hare at The Burgh

Amberley Wildbrooks

Red Kite 1

Red-legged Partridge 1

Amberley Wildbrooks

Red Kite at Amberley Wildbrooks

Petworth Park

Egyptian Goose 2

Egyptian Goose at Petworth Park

Coot at Petworth Park

Midhurst

Red Kite 1

West Dean Woods

Buzzard 20

Red Kite 2

Little Owl 2 ex.

Marsh Tit 2

Raven 1

Brambling 1 male

Marsh Tit at West Dean Woods