7th August, 2015 Beachy Head Fine, sunny and warm W-SW 1

Another superb calm morning made better by a small fall of common night migrants. Covered all the main sites on the Headland with the highlight being a Grasshopper Warbler, Redstart and 2 Nightingales.

Common Buzzard 1
Sparrowhawk 1
Whimbrel 1 E
Great-spotted Woodpecker 1
Sand Martin 20 S
Swallow 10
Nightingale 2 (1 seen and a second heard croaking)
Common Redstart 1 Shooters Bottom
Stonechat 15
Wheatear 1
Song Thrush 2
Grasshopper Warbler 1 Hotel Garden
Sedge Warbler 7
Reed Warbler 5
Lesser Whitethroat 4
Common Whitethroat 63
Blackcap 3
Willow Warbler 52
Raven 2
Greenfinch 2
Goldfinch 20
Linnet 40

Silver-spotted Skipper 15

(taken by Terry Cooper)

Early morning fox at Birling

Juvenile Dunnock at Shooters Bottom

Three of today's Willow Warblers

 

15 Silver-spotted Skippers seen today