With early sea-fog we decided to walk Birling lane and then we did a brief sea-watch from 07.20-07.55. We then covered Radio mast bushes, Hotel Garden, Icky Ridge and part of Cliff Path, Old Trapping Area, Shooters Bottom and Valley opposite, and Belle Tout wood where we met AR who had also walked the Long Down Valley.
Again, just a few new arrivals of night migrants which included a greyish pale singing Willow Warbler, and our first Swifts for this Spring. Although very little moving out to sea with the highlight being 3 Avocets.
Combined totals:
Gannet 10 E
Common Buzzard 3 over Headland
Kestrel 1
Avocet 3 E @ 07.22
Commic Tern 13 E
Swift 2 E over Icky Ridge
Swallow 12
Pied Wagtail 3 (Ad. with 1 young at the B/T lighthouse)
Whinchat 1 female Hotel Garden
Stonechat 6 (appears to be fewer breeding pairs this Spring).
Wheatear 1 Long Down Valley
Blackbird 12 on Headland
Song Thrush 3 Shooters Bottom
Reed Warbler 1 Radio mast bushes
Common Whitethroat 17 Headland
Garden Warbler 1 Long Down Valley
Blackcap 3
Chiffchaff 4
Willow Warbler 2 (including 1 singing pale looking bird)
Spotted Flycatcher 3 (1 Birling, 1 Shooters bottom and 1 B/T wood)
Goldfinch 15
Brimstone 1 B/T
Common Blue 2
Small Heath 8
Small Copper 1
Green Hairstreak 2
Small White 2
Speckled Wood 2
Early Spider Orchid 9
Bottle-nosed Dolphin 1 off Birling
Spotted Flycatcher at Birling
a distant female Whinchat in the Hotel Garden
A pale looking singing Willow Warbler in the Old Trapping Area,
probably belonging to the northern race acredula.
Small Heath butterfly
Green Hairstreak at B/T wood
Probably the last of this year's Early Spider Orchids
