RAB sea-watched from 05.40-09.10 and RE covered Birling lane, Belle Tout loop and Belle Tout wood and Whitbread Hollow. LP covered several sites on the Headland including Shooters Bottom. A reasonable sea-watch with highlights 8 Avocets, and 4 Black Terns, but again very few migrants were present in the area.
Gannet 10 E
Shelduck 12 E
Common Scoter 47 E
Peregrine 1 out over the sea
Avocet 8 E (4 @ 06.35 and 4 @ 7.24)
Sanderling 5 E
Dunlin 3 E
Bar-tailed Godwit 43 E
Whimbrel 18 E
Arctic Skua 8 E
Mediterranean Gull 2 E
Black-headed Gull 15 E
Sandwich Tern 48 E
Commic Tern 287 E (with 15% were i/d as Common Tern)
Swallow 1 in off the sea
Raven 1
Red-legged Partridge 2
Green Woodpecker 2
Stonechat 1 male rubicola type in Shooters Bottom photo (LP)
Blackcap 6
Lesser Whitethroat 2
Willow Warbler 1
Chiffchaff 2
Roe Deer 1 over the Headland. ( only the odd records of Deer at Beachy Head over the last 60 years).
