Monday 31 May 2010

30th May 2010 Beachy, Midrips & Rye Harbour NR

Birling Gap W3 Overcast 6.30am - 7am
Heron 1
Gannet 15
Shelduck 2 prospecting
Scoter 5E
Peregrine 2
Hobby 1
Kestrel 1
Sandwich Tern 1W
Razorbill 2E
Red-legged Partridge 1
Swift 4
Stonechat 3
Greenland Wheatear 3
Swallow 36
House Martin 4
Rock Pipit 1
Lesser Whitethroat h
Whitethroat 13
Blackcap h
Chiffchaff 1 + h
Long-tailed Tit 2
Corn Bunting 3

Hare 4

Red Admiral 1
Speckled Wood 1
Wall 3
Common Blue 12
Adonis Blue 10
Dingy Skipper 3
Small Heath 2

Lady Orchid 1
The Seven Sisters

Birling Gap Lane

Male Greenland Wheatear

Female Greenland Wheatear

Lady Orchid at Beachy Head

Early Purple Orchids at Beachy Head

Adonis Blue at Cow Gap

Midrips
Marsh Harrier 2
Avocet 6
Whimbrel 1
Dunlin 2

Castle Water
Bittern h booming
Marsh Harrier 1
Spoonbill 1 ex.
Cetti's Warbler 1

Spoonbill at Castle Water

First-summer Common Tern at the Ternery Pool
Note the all-dark bill, white forehead, dark lesser coverts, retained juvenile dark outer primaries, dark primary coverts, worn dark secondary bar and short tail streamers.

Common Terns at the Quarry

Black-headed Gull on the Quarry