An overcast calm early morning and we hoped for a good fall of migrants, but surprisingly the whole area appeared very quiet. Not a single Willow Warbler was recorded from both the Headland and the Hollow and they should now be coming into the peak of their return passage. The only overhead movement was a single party of 10 Swallows moving E.
Combined totals:
Little Egret 1 Birling beach
Sparrowhawk 1 chasing a Green Woodpecker in the Hollow
Common Buzzard 1 Hollow
Tawny Owl 1 Hollow
Swift 1 W
Green Woodpecker 4 (3 Headland, 1 Hollow)
Swallow 10 E
Meadow Pipit 10 Headland
Nightingale 1 calling Hollow
Stonechat 7 Headland
Grasshopper Warbler 1 Hollow
Sedge Warbler 2 Hollow
Reed Warbler 5 Hollow
Lesser Whitethroat 5 (1 Shooters Bottom, 4 Hollow)
Common Whitethroat 27 (20 Headland, 7 Hollow)
Garden Warbler 2 Hollow
Blackcap 7 (1 Headland, 6 Hollow)
Starling 30 Birling
Linnet 50 Headland
Corn Bunting 5 Birling area.
Just shows how bad birding is at the moment on the Headland, I am
back to photographing Stonechats and Green Woodpeckers.
40 juvenile Herring Gulls, 2 adults and 1 juvenile Lesser black back Gulls, and a pair of adult
Greater Black-backed Gulls feeding a juvenile, and good numbers and good numbers of Black-headed Gulls.