RE was ringing in Whitbread Hollow and RAB spent 5.5 hours covering the radio mast bushes, the Rides, the scrub above the cliff path, Frances Bottom, Icky Ridge, Hotel Garden, Old Trapping, Belle Tout wood area and Birling scrub.
Small arrival of Willow Warblers and a reasonable number of common migrants in the area. Very little in the way of overhead migration.
Combined totals:
Red Kite 1 E over the Old Trapping Area (RAB)
Common Buzzard 4
Kestrel 4
Swift 2E
Green Woodpecker 1 Hollow
Sand Martin 6 E
Common Redstart 2 (1 E side of B/T wood, 1 Francis Bottom)
Stonechat 26 (18 Headland, 8 Francis Bottom)
Sedge Warbler 2
Reed Warbler 7 Hollow
Lesser Whitethroat 4
Common Whitethroat 69 Whole area
Blackcap 1 Headland
Willow Warbler 33 (20 Hollow, 13 Other areas)
Raven 1
Starling 300 Birling area
Chaffinch 10 Hollow
Goldfinch 80 Whole area
