Sunday 16 September 2018

16th September, 2018 Beachy Head Light overcast with sunny periods S-SW 3-4

A disappointing morning. We covered Shooters Bottom, Old Trapping Area, Hotel Garden and Icky Ridge and the Toilet Block bushes and then called it a day. SL walked from Birling to Went Hill and onto Sardine Valley, Belle Tout wood and bushes to the East, Shooters Bottom and the Old Trapping Area. 
Very few night migrants present in the bushes and diurnal migration consisted of small numbers of hirundines flying into the SW wind.

Sparrowhawk 2
Common Buzzard 2
Kestrel 1
Peregrine 2
Sand Martin 3
Swallow 150 SW
House Martin 50 SW
Reed Warbler 1
Lesser Whitethroat 1
Common Whitethroat 1
Blackcap 3
Chiffchaff 10
Raven 3
Corn Bunting 25

Adonis Blue 1
Comma 1
Clouded Yellow 1
Meadow Brown a few
Common Blue a few
Small Heath many