3rd April 2010 Birling Gap & Beachy Head

Birling Gap SSW4 Overcast 6.30am - 10.00am

Red-throated Diver 5E

Great Crested Grebe 2E

Gannet 18E, 32W

Brent Geese 129E

Scoter 216E

Velvet Scoter 2E ex.

Merganser 2E pair

Kittiwake 284E

Little Gull 1E adult

Mediterranean Gull 1E second-Summer

Black-headed Gull 10E

Sandwich Tern 19E

Common Tern 2E

Bonxie 6E

Arctic Skua 1E dark morph 9.16am

Curlew 1E

Carrion Crow 6 in off sea

Beachy Head

Common Buzzard 1

Sparrowhawk 1

Swallow 2

Pied Wagtail 2

Stonechat 2

Chiffchaff 4

Chiffchaff at the Old Belle Tout Lighthouse

Male Stonechat at Belle Tout

Male Common Kestrel along Icky Ridge

Common Buzzard over Birling Gap

2nd April 2010 Birling Gap, Beachy & Glynde

Birling Gap Seawatch 6.30am - 10.30am SSE4-5 Overcast
Red-throated Diver 13E
Great Crested Grebe 1 on sea
Gannet 11E, 2W
Brent 107E
Pale-bellied Brent Goose 1E
Eider 3E drakes
Merganser 1
Scoter 385E
Tufted Duck 4E drakes
Shoveler 4E
Curlew 4E
Sanderling 12E
Guillemot 1E
Kittiwake 290E
Mediterranean Gull 5E all adult Summer
Sandwich Tern 161E
Common Tern E
Arctic Skua 3E dark morph (1 at 9.20 & 2 at 9.35)
Bonxie 2E ex.

Glynde & Lewes Brooks
Little Egret 2
Buzzard 5
Peregrine 1
Green Sandpiper 2
Cetti's Warbler h

1st April 2010 Burgess Hill

Sparrowhawk in our back garden

28th March 2010 Beachy, Rye, Midrips, Scotney & Icklesham

Beachy Head thick fog

Common Gull c.750

Ternery Pool, Rye Harbour NR

Grey Partridge 2

Avocet 7

Mediterranean Gull c.150

Sandwich Tern c.150

Grey Plover 2

Golden Plover c.75

Knot 5

Sandwich Terns at Rye Harbour NR

Midrips

Avocet 31

Avocets at the Midrips

Icklesham

Swallow 1

Cetti's Warbler h

Chiffchaff 3h singing

27th March 2010 Beachy Head Calm and overcast

Plumpton

Barn Owl 1

Birling Gap Seawatch Calm and overcast 5.45am - 8.15am

Red-throated Diver 4E

Gannet 26E, 12W

Shelduck 3W

Merganser 2E

Scoter 98E

Eider 4E (3 drakes)

Kittiwake 17E

Mediterranean Gull 1 second-Summer

Arctic Skua 1E dark morph at 6.20am

Beachy Head

Rock Pipit 2

Swallow 1

Chiffchaff 2

A heavily abraded and bleached first-winter colour-ringed white-winged Gull resembling a first-winter Iceland Gull in bare part colouration but structurally (angular-headed, long-legged and large-billed) near-identical to the accompanying Herring Gulls so considered most-likely an albino or leucistic first-winter Herring Gull

26th March 2010 Rottingdean 5.30am - 6.00am S4-5, Portobello, Newhaven Ouse

Rottingdean

Great Crested Grebe 1 on sea

Scoter 5E

Portobello Outfall

Fulmar 50

Kittiwake 25

Mediterranean Gull 1 ad summer

Common Gull and an intermedius Lesser Black-backed Gull at Newhaven Ouse

24th March 2010 Rottingdean 5.45am - 7.45am SE3 Cloudy

Red-throated Diver 3E
Great Crested Grebe 1E
Shag 1E
Gannet 5E
Brent Geese 25E
Shelduck 2E
Scoter 25E
Sparrowhawk 1 along seafront
Partridge sp. 1 (presumably Red-legged) Ditchling Beacon
Kittiwake 34E
Sandwich Tern 4E
Curlew 1 in off sea
Woodpigeon 1 in off sea