Sunday 12 August 2018

12th August, 2018 Beachy Head Overcast and warm S 3 backing SW 2.

RAB visited the Headland and sea-watched for 30 minutes and then covered Birling lane, Belle Tout wood and scrub, Shooters Bottom and walked across to Bulling Dean, Hotel Garden and the toilet block bushes.
Very few Willow Warblers present this morning, and no diurnal migration recorded. A Hobby moved W over the Headland.

Gannet 60 E in 30 minutes
Red-legged Partridge 5
Green Woodpecker 1
Common Buzzard 1
Hobby 1 W over the Headland
Kestrel 1
Peregrine 2
Sand Martin 8
Song Thrush 1
Wheatear 3
Stonechat 14
Sedge Warbler 1
Reed Warbler 2
Common Whitethroat 35
Lesser Whitethroat 4
Blackcap 2
Willow Warbler 3
Raven 1
Yellowhammer 1