Thursday 25 April 2019

25th April, 2019 Beachy Head Overcast but clear at sea, light dizzle but becoming sunny but cold. SE-S 4-5

We joined RAB and sea-watched from 06.00-12.05. RE and AR joined us for some of the sea-watch.
Another very enjoyable watch with good quality and quantity.

Red-throated Diver 4 E
Black-throated Diver 9 E all in full s/p.
Great-crested Grebe 1 on the sea
Manx Shearwater 2 E (1 @ 06.15 and 1 close at 07.25)
Gannet 345 E
Shag 1 E
Brent Goose 61 E
Gadwall 1 E
Common Scoter 462 E
Velvet Scoter 9 E (Party of 7 E @ 07.20)
Kestrel 1 male out over the sea.
Dunlin 6 E
Bar-tailed Godwit 4 E
Whimbrel 63 E
Arctic Skua 32 E
Great Skua 23 E
Mediterranean Gull 69 E
Little Gull 2 juvs. E
Black-headed Gull 125 E
Common Gull 53 E
Kittiwake c300 E
Sandwich Tern 289 E
Commic Tern 59 E
Little Tern 1 E
Black Tern 2 E
Auk Sp. 8 E
Swallow 1 in off the sea
Raven 1




 Some of today's Great Skuas

Dark phase Arctic Skua

Black-headed Gulls moving.


Mediterranean Gulls been one of the main features
of this years Spring sea-watching.

Common Scoters

Brent Geese still a few moving this morning