SL walked the area from Went Hill to Belle Tout wood, then covered Shooters Bottom and the Old Trapping Area. Usual selection of common night migrants which included a small fall of Chiffchaffs, 3 Spotted Flycatchers and 1 Pied Flycatcher.
Combined totals:
Sparrowhawk 1 Headland
Common Buzzard 1 Hollow
Tawny Owl 2 Hollow
Green Woodpecker 1 Hollow
Great-spotted Woodpecker 1 Hollow
Hirundines All 3 species in the hundreds but mainly House Martins
Yellow Wagtail c15 Headland
Whinchat 1 Headland
Wheatear 3 Headland
Sedge Warbler 2 (1 Hollow, 1 Shooters Bottom)
Reed Warbler 4 Hollow
Common Whitethroat 8 (3 Hollow, 5 Headland)
Lesser Whitethroat 1 Went Hill
Garden Warbler 4 Hollow
Blackcap 155 (150 Hollow, 5 Headland)
Chiffchaff 52 (22 Hollow, 30 Headland)
Willow Warbler 5 (2 Hollow, 3 Headland)
Goldcrest 1 B/T wood - our first this Autumn
Spotted Flycatcher 3 B/T wood
Pied Flycatcher 1 Shooters Bottom (SL)
Nuthatch 1 adult male (Our 15th record since 1960)
Jay 2
Raven 1
Adonis Blue 1
Small Copper 5
Red Admiral 5
Painted Lady 2
Clouded Yellow 1
Plus the common butterflies
Common Darter 1
Migrant Hawker 1
Badger 1
taken by Martin Banks
Nuthatch trapped and ringed in Whitbread Hollow.
