Sunday 30 March 2014

30th March 2014 Birling 7.15am - 1.00pm ESE2

Red-throated Diver 168E
Great Crested Grebe 1 on sea
Gannet 17E
Brent 620E
Pale-bellied Brent 1E at 10.37
Scoter 1,042E
Goosander 2E
Merganser 27E
Shoveler 14E
Teal 23E
Red Kite 1
Arctic Skua 1E
Kittiwake 151E
Mediterranean Gull 20E
Black-headed Gull 181E
Little Gull 26E
Sandwich Tern 104E
Guillemot 1 on sea
Auk sp. 3E
Curlew 33E, 1W
Oystercatcher 7E, 3W
alba Wagtail 3 over
Chiffchaff 4
Raven 1

Harbour Porpoise 2+
 



Goosanders passing Birling

 
Curlews passing Birling

Black-headed Gulls passing Birling

 
Pale-bellied Brent passing Birling
 
 
and a far superior image of it courtesy of JFC
 

 
 
 
 
Chiffchaff at Birling
with its eye-catchingly richly yellow-suffused underparts including its undertail-coverts, and its rear tarsus not looking as dark as they can, Iberian Chiffchaff needed consideration... so, a pity about its half eye-ring below its eye and its dark ear-coverts
 

Red Kite over the Top Fields