the Toilet block bushes to the Old Trapping Area. AR visited Whitbread Hollow and Cow Gap, and several other birders were also present on the Headland.
A reasonable fall of night migrants and at long last some quality. Our first Spotted Flycatchers of the Autumn, also a Pied Flycatcher, Black Redstart but the highlight was a Melodious Warbler which was found by LP and showed well but very briefly.
Sparrowhawk 2 over the Headland
Kestrel 1 male Headland
Peregrine 2
Green Woodpecker 1
Tree Pipit 1 flew over
Rock Pipit 3 Birling
Yellow Wagtail 1 Birling
Nightingale 1 birling
Black Redstart 1 female type Birling
Wheatear 6 Headland
Melodious Warbler 1 (LP and JFC) (Our 38th record since 1960)
Lesser Whitethroat 6 (5 Headland and 1 Hollow)
Common Whitethroat 53 (22 Headland and 31 Hollow area)
Blackcap 11 Hollow area
Garden Warbler 1 Hollow
Chiffchaff 3 Headland
Willow Warbler 56 (45 Headland and 11 Hollow area)
Spotted Flycatcher 7 (6 Headland and 1 Hollow)
Pied Flycatcher 1 Headland
Linnet flock of 50
Migrant Hawker 1
Some of today's 6 Spotted Flycatchers
Melodious Warbler
Grey Squirrel feeding on berries on top of a Hawthorn bush.
