Monday, 5 May 2003

5th May 2003 Beachy 5.30am – 11.45am. Newhaven 12.00 – 12.15pm. Dungeness 3.00pm – 6.30pm. Light S wind becoming stronger. Overcast

Diver sp. 1E
Fulmar c.10
Barnacle Geese 5 Scotney
Shelduck 6 Newhaven
Tufted Duck c.15 Scotney
Scoter c.25E
Common Buzzard 1 over rides above Hollow
Sparrowhawk 1
Peregrine 4
Little Ringed Plover 1 Newhaven
Redshank 1
Pomarine Skua 1E hanging around offshore for c.10 mins whilst made prolonged pursuits of c.5 Kittiwakes.
Arctic Skua c.3E
Black-headed Gull c.50E
Herring Gull c.50 Dungeness
AUDOUIN’S GULL 1 second Summer. Long, dark red bill with black terminal band. Long gape-line. Blue-grey legs and feet. Head white with feint darker brow. Breast white with belly washed grey. Hindneck grey as was mantle and upperwings. Primaries very long being black. Tail white with broad black subterminal tail band. In flight inner primaries grey but most primaries wholly black. Well-defined black bar on secondaries with narrow white trailing edge.
Sandwich Tern c.15E
Commic Tern c.10E
Swift c.10 Newhaven
Swallow c.10
House Martin 1
Pied Wagtail 1
Wheatear 1 Dungeness
Lesser Whitethroat 2
Whitethroat c.20
Chiffchaff h
Goldfinch 30
Reed Bunting 1 Scotney
Yellowhammer 1
Corn Bunting

 Audouin's Gull at Dungeness (Johnny Allan)