Sunday 29 September 2002

29th September 2002 Beachy Head 7.00am - 2.30pm. Light SE wind, sunny and very clear

Cormorant c.6
Little Egret 3 with 1E past Birling and 2 on Cow Gap Beach
Kestrel 1
Peregrine 2
Merlin 2
Stock Dove 1
Swallow c.30
House Martin c.70
Pied Wagtail c.10E
Robin c.10
Stonechat c.6
Barred Warbler 1 imm. Old Trapping area. Large size immediately apparent with sturdy grey legs, heavy grey bill with basal half of lower mandible a dirty pinkish colour. Large beady black eye placed in centre of plain rounded head. Crown, nape, mantle, rump and ear coverts brownish grey. Median and greater coverts, tertials and secondaries dark centred with broad pale fringes. Underparts paler resembling those of a Garden Warbler with darker greyish chevrons apparent on the lower flanks and undertail coverts. Very skulking occasionally appearing on the edge of Elders to feed on berries.
Chiffchaff c.15
Starling c.20
Linnet c.60
Goldfinch c.10
Greenfinch 1