Cuckmere Haven & Splash Point 2/5/16

For the first few hours today I had to act 'step dad' and therefore missed a decent seawatch but I'm slowly coming to terms that every once in a while I'll miss something, and today was that. Some compensation however was a Sedge Warbler in the garden. Cutting my duty short I made it out by late morning and ventured down the Cuckmere. Good numbers of Waders were along the river and an arrival of Warblers were present in the bushes.

Afterwards a 5.5 hour seawatch produced a good movement of Skuas involving three species. The cold had got to me by the end and my plans to head up to Balsdean from Peacehaven didn't materialise.

Cuckmere totals:

Dunlin - 60

Sanderling - 4

Common Sandpiper - 1

Bar-tailed Godwit - 6

Whimbrel - 8

Whinchat - 1

Willow Warbler - 15

Splash Point totals:

Pomarine Skua - 5

Arctic Skua - 9

Great Skua - 15

Manx Shearwater - 6 + 2W

Brent Geese - 20

Common Scoter - 7

Commic Tern - ca. 750

Black Tern - 1

Little Tern - 15

Sandwich Tern - 50

Red-throated Diver - 2

Gannet - ca. 50

 Sanderling and Dunlin in the Cuckmere

Arctic Skua past Splash Point