16th May, 2019 Beachy Head Sunny, clear and cool E 4-5

We sea-watched from 06.25-09.30 and then visited the radio mast bushes, Hotel Garden, Icky Ridge. the Cliff Path, Old Trapping Area and Belle Tout wood. Reasonable passage of waders by Beachy standards, but the Headland was very quiet, with no real arrival of any new night migrants.

Gannet 15 E
Shelduck 1
Teal 1 E
Shoveler 10 E
Common Scoter 114 E
Common Buzzard 1
Peregrine 2
Grey Plover 1 E
Sanderling 40 E
Bar-tailed Godwit 29 E
Whimbrel 32 E
Black-headed Gull 38 E
Common Gull 4 E
Sandwich Tern 5 (3 E and 2W)
Commic Tern 13 E
Swift 1 E
Swallow 10 (1 in off the sea)
Lesser Whitethroat 1 singing Cliff Path
Common Whitethroat 8
Blackcap 3 Cliff Path
Jay 1 top bushes above Cliff Path
Raven 1 Birling

Wall Butterfly 7 Cliff Path
Common Blue 2
Small Heath 3
Dingy Skipper 4 Cliff Path
Peacock 1

The walk through the top bushes above the Cliff Path.

Two of today's Dingy Skipper along the Cliff Path.

The underside of the Wall Butterfly.