Sunday 22 January 2006

22nd January 2006 Beachy Seawatch 8.10am – 9.10am ENE 2-3 Clear, sunny and cold


Mute Swan c.6 Princess Park
Canada Goose 4 Princess Park
Common Shelduck 1E, 2W
Mallard c.10 Princess Park
Pheasant 2 Top Fields evading a large female Peregrine, 1 Whitbread Hollow
Red-throated Diver 1E, 4W   Off Cow Gap 1.30pm-1.45pm 3E
Great Crested Grebe 1 s/p on sea off Birling, 1 s/p on sea off Cow Gap
Fulmar 10
Gannet 2E, 1W adults
Cormorant 5 on sea, Cow Gap 6W, 2 on sea
Little Egret 2 flew east along shoreline settling on beach at Birling
Grey Heron 1 on beach at Birling
Sparrowhawk 1 roadside near Willingdon
Kestrel 1 Belle Toute
Peregrine 1 adult female Birling
Oystercatcher 1 beach at Birling
Curlew 1 on beach at Birling
Redshank 1 Ouse Project
Black-headed Gull 75 in fields then onto beach
Common Gull 75 Birling in fields then onto beach, 50 on sea off Whitbread Hollow
Herring Gull 10 Birling, 135 on sea off Cow Gap with feeding Auks and Cormorants
Great Black-backed Gull 15 Birling, 20 on sea off Cow Gap with feeding Auks and Cormorants
Kittiwake 2E, 1 on sea off Cow Gap with feeding Auks and Cormorants
Guillemot 7 feeding on sea off Cow Gap with Razorbills, Cormorants and Gulls
Razorbill 5E, 10 on sea off Birling, 27 feeding on sea off Cow Gap with Guillemots, Cormorants and Gulls
Auk sp. 418E, 51W
Wood Pigeon 6
Tawny Owl 2 one grey one rufous being the usual resident pair noted for several years
Great Spotted Woodpecker 1 Belle Toute wood unseasonal
Skylark 26 Top Fields some in song
Rock Pipit 1 Birling
Grey Wagtail 1 1st-w at small sewage plant at Birling
Pied Wagtail 2
Wren 1 Cow Gap
Dunnock 2
Robin 2
Stonechat 1
Blackbird 2
Song Thrush 2
Goldcrest 1 Gulley below Cow Gap
Long-tailed Tit 2 Cow Gap
Blue Tit 5
Great Tit 3
Magpie 10
Jackdaw 50
Rook 16
Carrion Crow 20 including 13 feeding on a dead Sheep
Starling 60
House Sparrow 5
Chaffinch 7
Goldfinch 1 Birling, 12 Hotel Garden