completely shite weekend with a white wag at west rise, ruff at southease and a little gull at the res. a fire at the phoenix gallery, lewes.

red kite over brighton.

yday: red kite over falmer pond and another flew over greatham bridge.

a long eared owl was on hollingbury camp this morning and 2 red kites flew over brighton.

2 dead puffins on rottingdean beach and a dead gannet at saltdean.

Yday: dead puffin on Brighton beach.

woodingdean, 25 feb.

2 caspian gulls at arlington, 6 feb. the adult also roosted on 8th.

newhaven, 10 feb.

dead puffin and bonxie on brighton beach.

sat: walked from the marina to the pier finding the following dead birds: 21 razorbills, 9 guillemots, 7 kittiwakes, 5 starlings and a fulmar. I actually walked all the way to shoreham harbour but the totals fell dramatically with just 5 razorbills and a gannet between the pier and the harbour. I walked ovingdean, rottingdean and saltdean beaches in the evening finding more auks and kittiwakes.

• 16 feb: walked from the pier to the marina finding the following dead birds: 20 razorbills, 2 guillemots, 1 puffin (which I took home), 3 fulmars, 5 starlings and 4 kittiwakes.
• 14 feb: 2 dead puffins (which I took home) and a dead fulmar on the beach at brighton marina. also 2 dead kittiwakes further along the beach.
• 12 feb: walked from the pier to the marina finding 2 dead kittiwakes. another dead kittiwake on ovingdean beach.
• 11 feb: Caspian gull in the Cuckmere.
• 10 feb: walked from brighton marina to shoreham harbour finding the following dead birds: 9 razorbills, 2 guillemot, a shag and a gannet. I then walked newhaven beach and collected the dead puffin found the previous day. on the beach were 3 razorbills a kittiwake and a bunch of mute swan feathers.
• 8 feb: Caspian gull and kittiwake at Arlington.
• 6 feb: 2 Caspian gulls and a little gull at Arlington.
• 26 jan: Caspian gull in the Cuckmere.
• 25 jan: 'neck collared jackdaw' at woodingdean.
• 22 jan: Caspian gull at the marina.
• 18 jan: Caspian gull at Arlington.
• 12 jan: Caspian gull at the marina.
• 3 jan: Caspian gull in the Cuckmere.
• 31 dec: probable Viking gull on roedean golf course.
• 22 dec: 8 two barred crossbills broomhead res.
• 14/15 dec: another one of those crazy weekends with gulls everywhere. 20+ Caspian gulls were seen in the Cuckmere, Arlington, Newhaven west beach and on seaford head itself. the gull roost at Arlington was huge with massive numbers of lbbgs. on the Saturday, a 3rd winter 'Azorean type' yellow legged gull roosted.
• 5 dec: 2 Caspian gulls at Arlington.

pics are from yday. still losing image quality when uploading to blog for some reason.

a caspian gull was at newhaven, 3 in the gbbg flock in the lower cuckmere and 2 roosted at arlington. to be honest, im losing interest in them nowadays but what else is there to do in the winter! stacks of argentatus about with the odd yellow legged thrown in too.

a black throated diver at princes park, eastbourne, and an ad caspian gull in the lower cuckmere.

from sunday. annoyingly, some of the image quality has been lost in the upload to blog.

finally getting round to updating blog for oct. the 3rd-13th was holiday time! 11 straight dawn til dusk days is hard work in sussex but expectations were running high (as always). with the eventual arrival of yellow browed warblers to the sussex coast, 7 were seen at various sites with 3 on 7th including 2 together. fri 11th saw a large movement of thrushes over brighton and between 8am and 1pm we recorded the following heading NE: 35000 redwings, 3000 fieldfares, 1000+ chaffinches, 118 ring ouzels, 100+ bramblings, 35 mistle thrushes, 7 snipe, golden plover and lapland bunting.  sat 12th was raddes day! get in there! of course it wouldn't be October without mention of long tailed blue. after singles at ovingdean, sheepcote and the sites at newhaven and seaford, we finally struck gold at a site in brighton where 15 individuals were found. mad.