After several days of unsettled windy weather, we decided to try a sea-watch from 07.50-08.50 and then visited Shooters Bottom and Belle Tout wood, where we met up with AR. who had covered most of the Headland sites. RJF also spent 6 hours walking, covering Shooters Bottom, Old Trapping Area, Hotel Garden, Cliff Path, Francis Bottom, Cow Gap and the Gully and beach area, Whitbread Hollow, the Rides, and Belle Tout wood.
Very little seen on the sea-watch, still reasonable numbers of Blackcaps and Chiffchaffs with a single Grasshopper Warbler and 2 Firecrests. Diurnal Migration was just small numbers of hirundines although Meadow Pipits were more in evidence in the area.
Combined totals:
Gannet 20
Little Egret 1
Sparrowhawk 1
Peregrine 1
Mediterranean Gull 1 ad. E
Green Woodpecker 1
Swallow 80
House Martin 17
Meadow Pipit c200+
Rock Pipit 3
Pied Wagtail 6
Stonechat 16 Whole Area
Wheatear 1 Gully beach
Grasshopper Warbler 1 Francis Bottom
Common Whitethroat 9 Whole area
Blackcap 53 Whole area
Chiffchaff c50 Whole area
Firecrest 2 (1 Old Trapping Area and 1 Shooters Bottom)
Long-tailed Tit 13 Shooters Bottom (parties of 9 and 4)
Blue Tit 10 Whole area
Great Tit 7 Whole area
Raven 2
Chaffinch 12 Whole area
Goldfinch 100 Whole area
Linnet 80 Whole area
Comma Butterfly 1 B/T wood
