29th July, 2019 Beachy Head Early overcast and cool becoming sunny and hot SW 2

We covered Birling lane and scrub, Shooters Bottom, Old Trapping Area, radio mast bushes, Hotel Garden, Icky Ridge and Belle Tout wood. Met up with LP, and RAB, who were also covering some sites on the Headland.
A small arrival of migrants on the headland, but no diurnal migration seen.

Cormorant Party of 7 W
Common Buzzard 2
Kestrel 1
Peregrine 1
Red-legged Partridge 2 top of Birling lane.
Herring Gulls 400+ which included 100 W along the cliff tops.
Green Woodpecker 2 Headland
Great-spotted Woodpecker 2 (1+juv) on feeders Birling lane
Swallow 5
Meadow Pipit 10
Nightingale 1 Shooters Bottom (RAB)
Stonechat 10 Headland
Song Thrush 2 Headland
Sedge Warbler 2 Headland
Reed Warbler 4 Headland (1 still partly in song)
Lesser Whitethroat 2 Headland
Common Whitethroat 25 Headland
Blackcap 2 Headland
Willow Warbler 11 Headland
Goldfinch 50 Headland
Linnet 15 Headland

Good numbers of Butterflies were seen today, with the following more interesting ones:
Chalk Hill Blue 60
Small Blue 2
Marbled White 2
Silver Spotted Skipper 1

Weasel 1 Shooters Bottom

 

Just 2 Sedge Warblers were seen today

 

Common Whitethroat at Birling

A distant 1st cyr. Willow Warbler

in the Old Trapping Area

Silver Spotted Skipper at Belle Tout

Grasshopper (Back in the late 20th century, these used to be

very common and I remember one year there were many

hundreds on the Headland all jumping out of the grass as

you walked through it. The one today is the first one I have

seen recently).