2nd August, 2018 Beachy Head Hot and sunny SW 1

Another very hot morning. We covered Birling scrub, Belle Tout wood and scrub, Shooters Bottom, Old Trapping Area, and Hotel Garden. AR covered the Cow Gap area, and RE was again trapping and watching in Whitbread Hollow.
Small arrival of Sedge Warblers at Birling. We were making our way through the scrub without seeing very much and suddenly Sedge Warblers were flying all around us, they were very active. Otherwise 3 Nightingales but again very small numbers of Willow Warblers. No sign of any diurnal migration.

Combined Totals:
Peregrine 1
Red-legged Partridge 5 Cow Gap
Swallow 5
Nightingale 3 (1 Hollow and 2 Shooters Bottom)
Song Thrush 2
Grasshopper Warbler 1 Hollow
Sedge Warbler 15 (14 Headland and 1 Hollow)
Reed Warbler 8 (4 Headland and 4 Hollow)
Lesser Whitethroat 7 (3 Headland, 3 Cow Gap and 1 Hollow)
Common Whitethroat 19 (18 on the Headland and 1 in the Hollow)
Garden Warbler 1 Hollow
Blackcap 6 (2 Headland and 4 Hollow)
Chiffchaff 3
Willow Warbler 20 (10 Headland and 10 Hollow)
Raven 1
Starling 30
Goldfinch 20 Hollow
Corn Bunting 10

Again good numbers of Common Blues

A small fall of Sedge Warblers at Birling this morning.