18th April, 2019 Beachy Head Murky out to sea cool E 4-5

We joined RAB and sea-watched from 06.00-09.00 and LP RHC joined us for some of the sea-watch. Still murky conditions out to sea and a much quieter sea-watch from yesterday. We then covered radio mast bushes, Hotel Garden, Icky Ridge and then walked the cliff path to Whitbread Hollow and back along the top row of bushes. RAB covered Belle Tout wood and scrub, and LP covered Birling lane, Belle Tout wood and scrub and several sites on the Headland.
Very few migrants seen in the bushes today and most of yesterday's Willow Warblers had now moved on.
Combined totals:

Gannet 35 E
Canada Goose 2 in off the sea
Shelduck 1 E
Gadwall 2 E
Teal 9 E
Mallard 2 E
Shoveler 2 E
Common Scoter 244 E
Velvet Scoter 6 E @ 08.45 (RAB)
Red Kite 2 seen from Hodcombe (RHC)
Kestrel 1
Peregrine 1 Cow Gap
Dunlin 5 E
Bar-tailed Godwit 97 E
Whimbrel 27 E
Curlew 9 E
Arctic Skua 2 E
Mediterranean Gull 38 E
Black-headed Gull 14 E
Common Gull 25 E
Sandwich Tern 13 E
Commic Tern 3 E
Auk Sp. 1 E
Razorbill 1 E
Green Woodpecker 1
Swallow 5 (2 in off the sea)
Yellow Wagtail 1 in sheep field Birling
Lesser Whitethroat 1 Cliff Path
Common Whitethroat 2
Willow Warbler 20
Long-tailed Tit 4 (2 Shooters bottom and 2 Cliff Path)
Carrion Crow 3 in off the sea

Long-tailed Tit along the Cliff Path.