Tuesday 22 March 2022

Sea-watching Birling Gap, Beachy Head

Sea-watching Birling Gap, Beachy Head 22nd March, 2022. Fine and sunny and warm SE 1-2

Doreen and myself joined RAB and LP and we sea-watched from 06.00 to 11.00 and recorded the following species, virtually all moving East:

Little Egret 1,Gannet 6, Red-throated Diver 105, Black-throated Diver 1 @ 09.24, , Great-crested Grebe 1,  Brent Geese 1024, Grey-lag Goose 2 in off the sea, Pintail 100, Common Scoter 587, Red-breasted Merganser 8, Shoveler 12, Teal 10, Garganey 2 @ 9.07, Common Gull c50, Black-headed Gull c36, Mediterranean Gull 11, Arctic Skua 1 @ 06.57, Curlew 2, Carrion Crow 1 in off the sea, Heron 1

Harbour Porpoise 2 and Grey Seal 1


The two Greylags arriving in off the sea at Birling.


Two Garganeys at the front with Pintail at the back of the group
passing out to sea off Birling Gap.


      Another picture of the two Garganeys.

Sea-watching Birling Gap, Beachy Head 23rd March, 2022, Misty out to sea otherwise fine and sunny.
Doreen and myself joined RAB and LP and we sea-watched from 06.20 to 09.35. Majority moving E.
Little Egret 1, Red-throated Diver 21 + 1 on the sea, Great-crested Grebe 1 on the sea. Gannet 4, Brent Geese 289, Common Scoter 438, Shoveler 23, Teal 7, Wigeon 1, Pintail 1, Red-breasted Merganser 1, Shelduck 3E, 1W and 2 prospecting, Common Gull 142, Lesser-Black Backed Gull 1, Black-headed Gull 39, Mediterranean Gull 9, Sandwich Tern 3,  Carrion Crow 1 in off the sea,