Saturday 27 March 2010

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