Good numbers of Chiffchaffs, a small influx of Song Thrushes and a record day count of Stonechats.
Blue Tits were again seen in good numbers with one flock totalling 19 flying over the Old Trapping Area. Highlights were 5 Common Redstarts, 1 Firecrest and a Short-eared Owl.
Combined totals:
Little Egret 1 on Birling beach
Sparrow Hawk 2 Headland
Common Buzzard 3 Headland
Kestrel 1
Peregrine 1 Icky Ridge
Golden Plover 4 flew over the Headland.
Short-eared Owl 1 above Birling (SL,& JG)
Green Woodpecker 1
Great-spotted Woodpecker 1W flew over Birling lane
Swallow c80
House Martin c200 (110 W)
Meadow Pipit 110 (80 moved W, 30 in top fields)
Yellow Wagtail 2 feeding around cattle, top fields
Pied Wagtail 15 (12 W and 3 N)
Robin 15 Headland
Common Redstart 5 (1st yr. female Shooters Bottom and male Hotel Garden, 1 Birling, 2 B/T).
Stonechat 70 on the Headland with 24 counted in field opposite B/T wood. (Day record count for Beachy Head, with the previous daily record count was on the 6/10/1973 when 60 were seen).
Wheatear 2
Song Thrush 20 (with 12 at Birling)
Reed Warbler 1 Old Trapping Area
Lesser Whitethroat 1 Headland
Common Whitethroat 6
Garden Warbler 1 Icky Ridge
Blackcap 34
Chiffchaff 250 Headland
Willow Warbler 1 Hotel Garden (ASC)
Goldcrest 7
Firecrest 1 Icky Ridge
Long-tailed Tit 10 Old Trapping Area
Coal Tit 1(English race) Old Trapping Area
Blue Tit 45+ (Party of 19 W over the Old Trapping Area and party of 12 N).
Raven 5
Chaffinch 15
Goldfinch 120
Linnet 50 W
Corn Bunting 6 rough field B/T.
Clouded Yellow 8 Headland
Some sad news, a freshly dead Yellow-billed Cuckoo was found at Seaford this morning. photos.
1st yr. female Redstart in Shooters Bottom.
Maybe our last Common Whitethroat for this year.
