Friday 24 May 2019

24th May, 2019 Beachy Head Clear and sunny NE-E 2-3

We sea-watched from 06.20-07.20 and then covered the Old Trapping Area, Radio mast bushes, Hotel Garden, Icky Ridge and Shooters Bottom. RE covered Birling Lane, Belle Tout wood and scrub, Cornish Farm track and Whitbread Hollow.
Sea-watch a waste of time, a few new migrants on the Headland including 2 Spotted Flycatchers and another Hobby in the radio mast bushes and RHC had a Serin.

Common Scoter 5 E
Guillemot 1 E
Kestrel 1
Hobby 1- chased out of the radio mast bushes by a Crow which may have had a nest nearby.
Green Woodpecker 2
Swallow 15 (10 E)
Garden Warbler 1 Hollow
Blackcap 2 Hollow
Common Whitethroat 10
Chiffchaff 2
Willow Warbler 2 
Spotted Flycatcher 2
Serin 1 male  (RHC)

Small Heath 10
Dingy Skipper 1
Small Copper 1

Spotted Flycatcher in the Old Trapping Area