Friday, 10 May 2019

10th May, 2019. Beachy Head Sunny and clear, calm at first becoming W 1

RAB sea-watched from 06.30-08.00 and then covered Hotel Garden, Icky Ridge, Radio Mast bushes, Shooters Bottom, Belle Tout wood and scrub, and walk from Belle Tout to Birling. RE covered Birling lane, Belle Tout loop and wood, and the Cornish Farm track.
Sea-watch very quiet, but several new night migrants seen on the Headland including 4 Spotted Flycatchers and 4 Garden Warblers.

Gannet 31 (13 E)
Shelduck 1 W
Common Scoter 4 E
Common Buzzard 2
Peregrine 1
Red-legged Partridge 2
Sandwich Tern 6 E
Swallow 10 (1 in off the sea)
Song Thrush 2
Reed Warbler 1 singing in scrub near B/T-our first this year
Common Whitethroat 18 Headland
Garden Warbler 4 Headland
Chiffchaff 4 Headland
Willow Warbler 7 Headland
Spotted Flycatcher 4 (1 Icky Ridge, 1 Shooters Bottom and 2 B/T wood)-our first this year.
Long-tailed Tit 1
Raven 2

Wall Butterfly 1
Small Heath 3
Peacock 1