13th May 2001 Beachy Head 5.45am - 11.45am. Light E and warm and sunny

Diver sp. 4E

Gannet c.20E
Brent Goose 1E
Shelduck 1E adult with aberrant wings showing much white on trailing edge and primary tips thus encircling black panel formed by bases to flight feathers.
Gadwall 2 females
Shoveler c.5
Garganey 1 drake - close with a drake Shoveler.
Grey Plover 1E
Knot c.10E
Sanderling 1E
Bar-tailed Godwit c.20E
Whimbrel c3E
Pomarine Skua 39E including 1 exquisite dark morph
Arctic Skua c.5E
Little Tern 1
Sandwich Tern c.30E
Commic Tern c.400E
Black Tern c.8E
Guillemot 1 on sea
Auk sp. c.5E
Swift c.10
Sand Martin c.2
Swallow c.25
House Martin c.5
Garden Warbler 1
Lesser Whitethroat h
Whitethroat c.10
Reed Warbler h
Willow Warbler h
Chiffchaff h
Raven 1 west along Seven Sisters

12th May 2001 Beachy Head 5.55am - 1.30pm. Light E and hot and sunny

Gannet c.30E

Brent Goose 19E
Shoveler c.2
Scoter c.50E
Avocet 9E
Grey Plover c.5E
Sanderling c.10E
Turnstone c.5E
Bar-tailed Godwit c.60E
Whimbrel c.5E
probable Arctic Skua 1E - an intermediate morph
Black-headed Gull c.50E
Little Tern c.15
Sandwich Tern c.40E
Commic Tern c.900E
Black Tern c.15E ex.
Auk sp. c.5E
Swallow c.15
House Martin c.5
Yellow Wagtail c.3h
Whitethroat c.20
Grasshopper Warbler 1 reeling above Gulley in Cow Gap - glimpsed moving between bushes
Reed Warbler h
Willow Warbler 1
Chiffchaff h
Spotted Flycatcher 1
Raven 1

11th May 2001 Rottingdean 6.00pm - 7.00pm. Light E and warm and sunny

Scoter c.20E

8th May 2001 Rottingdean 6.15pm - 7.00pm. Light E and warm and sunny

Red-legged Partridge 2 Ditchling Beacon

Whimbrel 22E
Black-headed Gull c.200E virtually all 1^st-Summer birds
Commic Tern c.8E

7th May 2001 Beachy 6.00am - 10.00am. Cold NE wind but sunny

Preregrine 2

Swallow c.35
House Martin c.10
Yellow Wagtail 3
Blackcap 2
Lesser Whitethroat h
Whitethroat c.15
Reed Warbler h Gulley
Willow Warbler h
Chiffchaff h

6th May 2001 Beachy 6.00am - 12.30pm. Cold NE wind and overcast. Coombe Haven 5pm - 9pm

Little Egret 3 in a tight group in Cuckmere - migrants.

Hobby 1 in off sea at Cow Gap
Peregrine 2
Cuckoo 1 CH
Swift 1
Swallow c.8
House Martin c.5
Nightingale sp. 1 Coombe Haven heard singing in response to playback with a very brief flight view. Cold brown upperparts seen - no tail ! Song lacking the rattle typical of Nightingale.
Lesser Whitethroat 1 + 3h
Whitethroat c.30
Sedge Warbler h CH
Willow Warbler 1
Chiffchaff h
Raven 4

5th May 2001 Beachy 6.00am - 11.00am. Cold NE wind but dry

Peregrine 2

Swift 1
Swallow c.10
House Martin c.5
Yellow Wagtail 1
Blackcap 2
Lesser Whitethroat 1
Whitethroat c.25
Willow Warbler h
Chiffchaff h