26th April, 2019 Beachy Head Light overcast, clear and cool S-SW 4

Met up with RAB and we sea-watched from 05.45-09.45. RE covered Birling lane, Belle Tout wood and scrub under the old lighthouse, Whitbread Hollow and Shooters Bottom. LP was covering some of the sites on the Headland including Shooters Bottom where he heard and briefly saw a Subalpine Warbler sp. It became very elusive and several of us searched for it but without success.
Not to much was happening on the sea, other than yet another movement of Mediterranean Gulls. Just odd migrants seen in the bushes and no visible migration.

Red-throated Diver 2 E
Black-throated Diver 1 E
Gannet 69 E
Shag 1 ad. E
Brent Goose 1 E
Shelduck 3 E
Common Scoter 75 E
Kestrel 1 E
Peregrine 2 (1 out over the sea)
Red-legged Partridge 2
Arctic Skua 2 E
Great Skua 3 E
Mediterranean Gull 109 E
Black-headed Gull 70 E
Common Gull 16 E
Kittiwake c400 E
Sandwich Tern 36 E
Auk Sp. 11 E
Green Woodpecker 3
Swallow 9
Nightingale 1 singing in Whitbread Hollow (3rd day)
Wheatear 2 Birling
Song Thrush 1
Subalpine Warbler sp. 1 Shooters Bottom-singing and seen very briefly and not i/d as to specific specie. (LP)
Lesser Whitethroat 3 (2 Shooters Bottom and 1 Hollow)
Common Whitethroat 20
Blackcap 6
Chiffchaff 3
Willow Warbler 5
Long-tailed Tit 1 Shooters Bottom
Jay 1
Greenfinch 1 Hollow

Small Copper 1
Early Purple Orchids - A number now in flower.

Another day of Mediterranean Gulls moving East.

I wonder where they are all going??