Splash Point & Cuckmere Haven 20/5/14

The long lasting quest for a Long-tailed Skua continues after today's failure. However, there was a nice selection of species moving this morning, including many distant Terns moving rapidly up channel. However, only small numbers of other species were noted.

Totals between 6.00-9.30 are:

Pomarine Skua - 1
Arctic Skua - 2
Common Scoter - 35
Commic Tern - 305
Common Tern - 15
Arctic Tern - 1
Black Tern - 13
Little Tern - 1
Sandwich Tern - 38
Sanderling - 22
Turnstone - 1
Diver sp. - 2
Gannet - 10
Guillemot - 4

This evening a walk down the Cuckmere produced 5 Common Sandpipers and a Ringed Plover.

Common Sandpiper along the Cuckmere