Sparrowhawk 3
Red-legged Partridge 1
Woodpigeon 20N
Stock Dove 2E
Swallow 35E
House Martin 5E
Pied Wagtail 55E
Meadow Pipit 20E
Skylark 15E
Whinchat 1
Wheatear 5
Chiffchaff 4
Linnet 70E
Goldfinch 245E
Redpoll 13E
Siskin 22E
Chaffinch 12E
Greenfinch 10E
Corn Bunting 12
Crowlink
Pied Wagtail c.25E
Wheatear 3
Isabelline Wheatear 1 first-winter ex.
First-winter Isabelline Wheatear at Crowlink
A great find and identification by Roger & Liz Charlwood Andy & Gill Swash being the first record for Sussex. The above images convey its large size, upright stance, pot-bellied appearance, large deep-based bill, pale grey-washed sandy upperparts, restricted white rump, broad black terminal tail band, broad pale buff fringes to its lesser, median and greater coverts, isolated black alula, broad whitish fringes to its primary coverts, prominant white supercilium, pale brown uppersides to its primaries and diagnostic white underwings. Superb!
With dusk falling would-be observers pursuing the Isabelline Wheatear towards Beachy
