3/7/98 Cemlyn 5.00 - 7.00pm. Sunny and calm

Red Kite 1 over M40 - released bird
Isabelline Shrike 1 ex. probably first summer female pheonicuroides

6/6/98 Beachy Head 6am - 10am.

Reed Warbler 1 in song in gully

5/6/98 Pond Lye 8pm - 9.30pm. Cloudy

Barn Owl 1
Nightingale 2h

31/5/98 Beachy Head 6am - 10.30am. Salthouse, Norfolk 2pm - 5pm.

Avocet c.2 Salthouse
Spotted Flycatchers 2 Beachy
CHESTNUT BUNTING 1 prob first year male (P.Leader pers. comm.). Salthouse Garden

Male Chestnut Bunting at Salthouse (Alan Tate http://www.aabirdpix.com/ )
Nowhere near as pleasing as an Autumn bird on Out Skerries the time of year and location felt as good as you could hope for a Spring male. It was only viewable from inside Duncan MacDonald's house so thanks to him for accommodating so many visitors keen to see this Asian Bunting that is surely s likely as a number of other Far Eastern vagrants that have now reached the British Isles.

30/5/98 Beachy 6am - 10.30am, Pevensey 10.45am - 11.30am, Arlington 12.00-12.15. Beaulieu Heath, New Forest 3.30pm - 8pm. East wind and overcast.

Whooper Swan 1 Arlington - fairly tame! Brownish neck, adult like bill.
Hobby 2 (1 in off sea at Birling, 1 Pevensey)
'Channel' Wagtail hybrid  1 male resembling 'Syke's' Pevensey
Dartford Warbler 3 New Forest (missed Red-footed Falcon by 20 minutes)

29/5/98 Ashdown Forest 8.30pm - 9.30pm.

Hobby 1
Woodcock c.6
Nightjar 1
Tree Pipit 1

28/5/98 Elmney 6pm - 8.30pm. NE wind sunny.

Black-winged Stilt 1
Avocet 4
Temminck's Stint 1
Spanish/Ashy-headed Wagtail hybrid 1 ear coverts concolorous with crown, short white supercilium above and behind eye. Good white throat.