Saturday 11 April 2015

11th April 2015 Beachy W6 Overcast

Red-throated Diver 6E
Great-crested Grebe 1E
Gannet 12
Brent Goose 340E
Common Scoter 21E
Curlew 3E
Bonxie 1E
Arctic Skua 4E
Kittiwake 65E
Mediterranean Gull 2E adults
Black-headed Gull 40E
Sandwich Tern 56E
Common Tern 7E
Auk sp. 9E
Kestrel 1
Ring Ouzel 1 male
 
 
 
 
Male Ring Ouzel at Belle Tout
 
 
 
 A white-winged first-winter Herring Gull at Belle Tout
Doing its best to masquerade as a first-winter Iceland Gull...

...same bird as the above but now facing in the opposite direction! (Simon Linington)
Simon obtained good views of the above bird in flight when the difference between its two wings was striking and it was clearly a different bird to the first-winter Iceland Gull picked out by Simon seen passing Seaford yesterday
 
Rodmell
Ruff 4
Swallow c.8