Friday, 17 July 2020

17th July, 2020 Beachy Head Sunny periods hot and humid. SW 2

Doreen and myself managed to visit Shooters Bottom, Radio mast bushes, Hotel Garden, Old Trapping Area, Birling scrub, and Belle Tout wood. We met up with RB and Margaret and Rufous in Belle Tout wood.
Bushes were still very quiet for migrants although a slight improvement from our previous visit.
RE was again ringing in Whitbread Hollow and had a reasonable selection of migrants.
Combined totals

Common Buzzard 1
Green Woodpecker 1 Hollow
Swallow 3
Meadow Pipit party of 12 feeding along the edge of the road.
Pied Wagtail 5 Birling
Nightingale 1 croaking in Shooters Bottom
Stonechat 8 Headland
Grasshopper Warbler 3 x 1st yr birds trapped Hollow
Sedge Warbler 3 trapped Hollow
Reed Warbler 1 Hollow
Lesser Whitethroat 1 Shooters Bottom
Common Whitethroat 20 (14 Headland, 6 Hollow)
Blackcap 7 Hollow
Willow Warbler 4 Headland
Chiffchaff 6 (5 juveniles) Hollow
Raven 1
Goldfinch 25 Headland
Linnet 20 Headland
Corn Bunting 5


Adult type Willow Warbler in Shooters Bottom.