3rd March 2002 Beachy 7.35am - 1.45pm. Brief sea-watch and then walked Birling, Belle Toute area, Cow Gap and Hollow, Hotel Gardens and Chat Vate. Mild with bright blue skies though with strengthening southerly breeze

Diver sp. 5E
Fulmar c.25
Cormorant c.3
Little Egret 1 in off the sea at Birling flying firstly towards Long Down but then switching direction and lost from view heading south over Belle Toute wood. 2 Upper Cuckmere Valley.
Mute Swan 1 Cuckmere
Canada Goose c.25 Cuckmere
Wigeon c.15 Cuckmere
Common Scoter c.8E
Kestrel 1
Red-legged Partridge 1 Ditchling Beacon
Pheasant c.2 roadside
Curlew 1E
Black-headed Gull c.200 mainly adults with a proportion attaining s/p.
Common Gull c.250 mainly adults in w/p with a few 1^st-w.
Herring Gull c.20
Stock Dove c.5
Woodpigeon c.5 Beachy. C.500 Ditchling Beacon all sat on deck.
Collared Dove c.2 roadside
Little Owl 1 East Dean
Green Woodpecker 1
Skylark c.20 no passage
Meadow Pipit c.10 with 1 seen in parachuting display. No passage.
Rock Pipit 1
Pied Wagtail 2
alba Wagtail sp. 1W over Birling
Dunnock c.15 singing everywhere
Robin c.4
Stonechat 7
Blackbird 3
Song Thrush 2
Blue Tit c.4
Great Tit c.6
Magpie c.15
Jackdaw c.10
Rook c.50
Carrion Crow c.25
Starling c.50
House Sparrow c.4
Chaffinch c.8
Goldfinch c.25
Linnet 1
Corn Bunting 3