10th October, 2015 Beachy Head Fine but hazy, ENE 3

We just covered the Old Trapping Area, Hotel Garden, Icky Ridge, Shooters Bottom and Belle Tout wood. Very few migrants seen in the bushes but an improvement with diurnal migration with just over 100 Siskins including a flock of 60 but the highlight was a Red Kite which drifted E over Belle Tout wood.

Red Kite 1 drifted E over Belle Tout wood at 10.50
Sparrowhawk 2
Common Buzzard 3
Kestrel 4
Peregrine 1
Skylark 6 E
Swallow c300
House Martin c1,000
Meadow Pipit 60 E
Pied Wagtail 18 (13 E)
Song Thrush 1
Blackcap 5
Chiffchaff 10
Goldcrest 3
Chaffinch 27 E
Goldfinch 400 (200 E)
Siskin 110 E (including a flock of 60)
Linnet 250 E
Lesser Redpoll 6 E
Reed Bunting 1

 

Red Kite over Belle Tout wood.

 

Common Buzzard over Belle Tout wood