Sunday, 29 July 2001

29th July 2001 Beachy Head 5.45am - 10.30am. Hot and sunny and calm


Cuckoo 1 rufous morph female seen in flight at Birling gardens. Heavily black-barred upperparts with rufous rump.
Swift c.50
Swallow c.5
House Martin c.10
Wheatear 1
Stonechat 2
Blackcap 2
Lesser Whitethroat 1
Whitethroat c.20
Sedge Warbler 1
Grasshopper Warbler 1 field at bottom of Cow Gap
Reed Warbler 1
Willow Warbler c.20
Chiffchaff 1 adult
Yellowhammer 1

Saturday, 28 July 2001

28th July 2001 Beachy Head 5.45am - 10.30am. Hot and sunny and virtually calm


Cuckoo 1 Cow Gap
Swift c.15
Green Woodpecker 4
Great Spotted Woodpecker 1 juv. in Gulley with another heard in the Hollow.
House Martin c.10
Redstart 1 juv. by White House bushes
Stonechat c.5
Lesser Whitethroat 1
Whitethroat c.15
Sedge Warbler 1
Reed Warbler 2
Willow Warbler c.15

Sunday, 3 June 2001

3rd June 2001 Beachy 6am - 11.30am. Cold with light northerly wind. Sunny


Gannet c.10E
Hobby 2 Beachy 1 Cuckmere
Peregrine c.4
Swift c.750 with most feeding low
Swallow c.5
House Martin c.10
Reed Warbler 4h
Whitethroat c.10
Blackcap 1
Jay c.3
Corn Bunting 2

Saturday, 26 May 2001

26th May 2001 Beachy 5.45am - 10.45am Beachy. Calm (westerly influence) and sunny at first with fog arriving by 10.30am. Sidlesham Ferry 2pm - 3pm sunny with heat haze. Neatherfiled Lagoons, Nottingham 6.30pm - 7.30pm. Overcast but calm


Little Grebe c.2 + h at Neatherfield
Gannet c.10E Beachy
Grey Heron 2 Sidlesham
Ruddy Duck drake at Neatherfield
Buzzard 2 roadside in Midlands
Hobby 1 Beachy 3 Cuckmere hawking insects
Peregrine 1 Beachy
Collared Pratincole 1 Sidlesham Ferry - in field to the south occasionally flying and once towering  and catching insects. Unfortunately distant with heat haze not helping. Appeared very long-tailed in flight with white trailing edge. White rump obvious in flight. Sussex addition.
Lapwing c.5 Sidlesham
Arctic Skua 1 chasing Terns off Birling
Collared Dove 2 Beachy
Little Owl 1 Drusillas
Swift c.15 Cuckmere, c.20roadside, c.2 Neatherfield.
LITTLE SWIFT 1 Neatherfield Lagoons. Small short-tailed Swift. Large white throat-patch and white forehead visible when flying head-on. Obvious white rump extending below level of wings. Wings held down when gliding. A restricted pale forewing close to the body. Upprwing covert slightly brown contrasting with black flight feathers. Leisurely slow flight. Excellent. UK471.
Swallow 1 Beachy
House Martin c.5 Beachy
Meadow Pipit c.8 Beachy
Willow Warbler h
Chiffchaff h
Raven 1 Beachy
Reed Bunting 1 Neatherfield
Corn Bunting c.5

Sunday, 20 May 2001

20th May 2001 Beachy 5.45am - 11.30am. Calm, warm but cloudy


Peregrine 1 sat on cliffs near Belle Toute lighthouse
Swift c.5
Sand Martin 1
Swallow c.25
House Martin c.15
Wheatear 1
Blackcap 1
Whitethroat c.25
Willow Warbler 1 + c.5h
Spotted Flycatcher 1

Saturday, 19 May 2001

19th May 2001 Beachy 5.15am - 12.30pm. Virtually calm, warm but cloudy


Shelduck 2
Scoter 7E
Turtle Dove 1
Little Owl 1 roadside near Drusillas
Swift c.50
Swallow c.30
House Martin c.10
Blackcap h
Lesser Whitethroat h
Whitethroat c.30
Willow Warbler h
Spotted Flycatcher c.5
Bullfinch 1 Burgess Hill

Sunday, 13 May 2001

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