Friday 3 April 2015

3rd April 2015 Beachy S1 Drizzle & Foggy

Great Crested Grebe 2 on sea
Curlew 4E
Sandwich Tern 1 back and forth off Birling
Meadow Pipit c.50
White Wagtail 1 male with cattle
Pied Wagtail 2 with cattle
Wheatear 2
Chiffchaff 30
Firecrest 3
Goldcrest 1

Old Belle Tout Lighthouse in the fog
Albeit drizzly and foggy, it was virtually calm, and it was nice to be out birding in anything other than March's never-ending cold north-easterly winds and there was even a small arrival of migrants today!

Female Wheatear at the Old Belle Tout Lighthouse
my first of the year, at last, even if it was 'greyed-out' in the fog!

Firecrest in Chat Vale

Firecrest in the Hotel Garden