Saturday 2 February 2019

2nd February, 2019 Beachy Head Sunny periods, cold NW 3

We sea-watched from 07.30-09.15. and recorded a good westerly movement of Divers and Auks and a day record count for Cormorants.
We then covered Belle Tout wood and the set-aside field, Shooters Bottom and the Old Trapping Area but no sign of any cold weather movement on the Headland, and I made a search for any Woodcock but failed to find any.

Red-throated Diver 75 (71 W, 1 E and 3 on the sea))
Great-crested Grebe 1 E
Gannet 132 W
Cormorant  245 on the sea and then departed W.
Sparrowhawk 1
Common Buzzard 1
Common Gull c50 Birling
Kittiwake 12
Auk Sp. 772 W
Guillemot 10 on the sea
Razorbill 25 on the sea
Green Woodpecker 1 B/T wood
Skylark 80+ Set-aside field
Song Thrush 1
Raven 1

Bottlenose Dolphin 1 off Birling


A snowy Seven Sisters

Winter plumage Razorbill

Skylark over the set-aside field



Shooters Bottom in the snow

I knew I should have brought my sledge

Old Trapping Area and still no Woodcock

 
A record day count of Cormorants for Beachy
first seen on the sea and then headed W about a mile out


21st January, 2019 Burgess Hill
Doreen and myself got up very early to watch the eclipse of the moon, luckily the sky was very clear with virtually no cloud cover.


taken by Doreen Cooper
Super Blood Wolf moon beginning to go into Lunar eclipse


taken by Doreen Cooper
Super Blood Wolf Moon now virtually into full Lunar eclipse.