Friday, 30 August 2019

30th August, 2019 Beachy Head Overcast SW 3-4

We covered with TEC Shooters Bottom, Old Trapping Area, radio mast bushes, Hotel Garden and Icky Ridge. RE and MB were ringing in Whitbread Hollow. Fewer migrants seen today and virtually no diurnal migration recorded.
Combined totals:

Sparrowhawk 1
Common Buzzard 1
Kestrel 1
Hobby 1 Shooters Bottom
Green Woodpecker 2
Great-spotted Woodpecker 1 HIollow
Swallow 20
Tree Pipit 1 Hollow
Yellow Wagtail 2
Grey Wagtail 1 Hollow
Nightingale 1 Hollow
Common Redstart 1 Hollow
Whinchat 12 (2 Hollow, 10 Headland)
Wheatear 6 Headland
Song Thrush 1 Shooters Bottom
Grasshopper Warbler 3 Hollow
Sedge Warbler 2 Hollow
Reed Warbler 20 Hollow
Lesser Whitethroat 1 Headland
Common Whitethroat 30 (20 Headland, 10 Hollow)
Garden Warbler 2 Hollow
Blackcap 89 (80 Hollow, 9 Headland)
Chiffchaff 11 (10 Hollow, 1 Headland)
Willow Warbler 12 (6 Headland, 6 Hollow)
Long-tailed Tit 1 Hollow
Jay 1 Hollow
Raven 2 Headland
Starling 50 Headland

Clouded Yellow 1
Small Copper 3
Painted Lady 12
Red Admiral 3
Small Tortoiseshell 1

Wheatear at Birling

Whinchat at Birling

Clouded Yellow at the Old Trapping Area