Seaford Head & Cuckmere Haven 12/9/13

At last some good conditions for a whole coverage of the Head. Its nice to see some ploughed fields here to giving some hope of a large Pipit. Today quite a few birds were moving overhead, but as ever Hope Gap held most of the grounded migrants. An evening walk down the Cuckmere produced a Turnstone along the river, plus the very showy Knot still kicking about. Totals are:

Scandinavian Herring Gull - 1 adult in moult along cliff edge
Tree Pipit - 2
Meadow Pipit - 97
Grey Wagtail - 4
White Wagtail - 1
Yellow Wagtail - 22
Wheatear - 7
Whinchat - 2
Redstart - 1
Whitethroat - 31
Lesser Whitethroat - 5
Blackcap - 93
Willow Warbler - 2
Chiffchaff - 21
Reed Warbler - 1
Swift - 2
House Martin - 100
Sand Martin - 5

Cuckmere Haven
Turnstone - 1 (only my 2nd ever in the Cuckmere)
Knot - 1
Whinchat - 3
Sedge Warbler - 1
Reed Warbler - 1

 Scandinavian Herring Gull - primary tips have taken a

battering

Swift - a pale juvenile bird.......not a Pallid!!

 Knot

Turnstone