Sunday, 15 January 2012

15th January 2012 Birling Seawatch 8am - 11.15am E2 Clear & Cuckmere

Ditchling Common
Woodcock 1 ex.

Red-throated Diver 8E, 3W, 1 on sea
Great Crested Grebe 5E, 1W
Gannet 121E
Little Egret 1 west along beach
Brent 513E
Eider 1E drake
Scoter 3 on sea
Velvet Scoter 2E females 9.35am ex.
Wigeon 14E
Shoveler 5E
Arctic Skua 1E d/p at 9am ex.
Kittiwake c.60E
Guillemot 15E, 6 on sea
Razorbill 9E
Auk sp. 82E, 5W
Chiffchaff 1 ex.

Brent Geese passing Birling Gap




Chiffchaff at Birling Gap

Exceat Bridge
Yellow-legged Gull 2 first-winters







 First-winter Yellow-legged Gull in the Cuckmere


A different first-winter Yellow-legged Gull in the Cuckmere