JFC's Birding: 2nd September, 2019 Beachy Head. Cold early morning becoming sunny and warm W 1 increasing to 3.

We covered Shooters Bottom, Birling lane, Cornish Farm lane, Old Trapping Area, radio mast bushes, Hotel Garden and Icky Ridge. RE and MB were ringing in Whitbread Hollow, LP covered the radio mast bushes to Shooters Bottom and back, AR covered Cow Gap area and above Whitbread Hollow and RB covered sites on the Headland including Shooters Bottom.
No sign of the Wryneck this morning, but a few new arrivals including our first Firecrest of the Autumn, singles of Spotted Flycatcher and Redstart and with good numbers of Blackcaps in the Hollow which kept the two ringers very occupied. Again very little in the way of diurnal migration but our first flock of 80 Meadow Pipits in a field at Birling.
Combined totals:

Fulmar 1 off Birling
Grey Heron 1 in a rock pool off Cow Gap
Sparrowhawk 2 Headland
Kestrel 2
Tawny Owl 2 Hollow
Swift 1 Headland
Green Woodpecker 1 Headland
Great-spotted Woodpecker 1 Hollow
Sand Martin c50
Swallow c200
House Martin c30
Meadow Pipit Flock of 80 in a field at Birling.
Rock Pipit 1 Cow Gap
Yellow Wagtail c30 feeding with Cattle near Cornish Farm track
Grey Wagtail 4 flew over Headland
Common Redstart 1 female type Old Trapping Area
Whinchat 1 Birling
Wheatear 5 (2 Headland, 3 Cow Gap)
Song Thrush 3 Shooters Bottom
Grasshopper Warbler 1 Shooters Bottom
Sedge Warbler 1 Shooters Bottom
Reed Warbler 12 Hollow
Lesser Whitethroat 1 Shooters Bottom
Common Whitethroat 42 (22 Headland, 20 Hollow)
Garden Warbler 3 (1 Hollow, 2 Cow Gap)
Blackcap 262 (250 Hollow, 2 Cow Gap, 10 Shooters Bottom)
Chiffchaff 31 (1 Cow Gap, 25 Hollow, 5 Headland)
Willow Warbler 22 (12 Headland, 6 Hollow, 4 Cow Gap)
Firecrest 1 above Whitbread Hollow (Our first this Autumn) (AR)
Spotted Flycatcher 1 Old Trapping Area
Long-tailed Tit 5 Shooters Bottom
Jay 1 Hollow
Bullfinch 1 Hollow

Clouded Yellow 2
Small Copper 4
Painted Lady 20
Red Admiral 8

Autumn Ladies Tresses-Good numbers now showing up Birling lane.