RE covered Birling lane, Belle Tout wood and Shooters Bottom, and LP covered the radio mast bushes to the Old Trapping Area.
Generally a quiet morning for migrants with a small arrival of Willow Warblers.
Combined totals:
Common Buzzard 1
Swallow 4
Lesser Whitethroat 4 (3 B/T wood and 1 Shooters Bottom)
(No count made of the Common Whitethroats)
Willow Warbler 26 Headland
29 July, 2020. Cool early morning becoming fine sunny and warm. SW 1-2
Doreen and myself met up with RKH, RES and KH and between us we covered Birling scrub and tamarisk bushes, radio mast bushes, Icky Ridge, Hotel Garden, and Belle Tout wood. LP also was covering a number of sites on the Headland and RE and MB were ringing in Whitbread Hollow.
A number of other observers were also present and chiefly covered Shooters Bottom and B/T areas.
The early morning started slow, but with the temperature increasing a good fall of Willow Warblers occurred. A Pied Flycatcher was seen briefly around B/T wood and a second Common Redstart had joined the juvenile on the east side of B/T. 3 Yellow Wagtails, and a juv. Marsh Harrier were also seen.
Combined totals:
Marsh Harrier 1 juv. E over Headland (LP)
Green Woodpecker 1 Hollow
Great-spotted Woodpecker 2 Hollow
Sand Martin 5 E over Headland
Swallow 5
Yellow Wagtail 3 Headland (our first for this Autumn)
Common Redstart 2 E side of B/T
Stonechat 6 Headland
Song Thrush 2 Birling
Grasshopper Warbler 1 Hollow (RE and MB)
Sedge Warbler 1 Hollow
Reed Warbler 7 (6 Hollow and 1 Headland)
Lesser Whitethroat 7 (4 Hollow and 3 Headland)
Common Whitethroat 23 (10 Hollow and 13 Headland)
Garden Warbler 10 Hollow
Blackcap 10 Hollow
Chiffchaff 4 Hollow
Willow Warbler c140+ (60 Hollow and 80+ Headland)
Pied Flycatcher 1 briefly in the B/T area, photo (LP)
Starling Flock of 80 in the Birling area.
Chaffinch Party of 12 present in the Hollow
Goldfinch 30 Headland
Linnet 40 Headland
Adonis Blue butterfly in the Hollow.
Lesser Whitethroat at Birling
Common Redstart Belle Tout.
On our way home we stopped off at Newhaven Harbour just in case the Hants. Caspian Tern had settled onto the beach, but no such luck. Very few Gulls present with about 20 Black-headed and 10 Herring including 5 juvenile birds. No sign of any Yellow-legged Gulls.
