Sunday 18 August 2002

18th August 2002 Beachy 5.45am - 11.30am. Calm becoming hot and sunny

Fulmar c.10
Gannet 2
Grey Heron 1
Marsh Harrier 1 c.10.30. Circled above Head for c.20 minutes before departing SE. Very dark with rounded tail and wings heald above the horizontal. Could just detect a pale creamy crown.
Peregrine c.5 including at least ‘brown’ 3 juveniles with white tips to all the tail feathers and finely pale tipped upperwing coverts and rump.
Common Sandpiper 10 on rocks off Gulley below Cow Gap
Herring Gull c.500
Lesser Black-backed Gull 2 juvs west along cliff edge. No pale window in dark primaries.
Cuckoo 1
Green Woodpecker c.2
Swallow c.5
Yellow Wagtail c.20
Grey Wagtail 1
Redstart c.2
Wheatear c.3
Stonechat c.5
Garden Warbler c.5
Blackcap 1
Lesser Whitethroat c.8
Whitethroat c.50
Sedge Warbler 1
Reed Warbler c.3
Willow Warbler c.30
Chiffchaff 1
Spotted Flycatcher c.5
Linnet c.35