LP had walked from Hotel Garden to Birling covering the usual sites and Bob, Sarah and Martin were ringing and watching in Whitbread Hollow. SL covered Went Hill and the Birling area, to Shooters Bottom.
Virtually no diurnal migration recorded, but still a reasonable flow of night migrants with another fall of Willows and also Reed and Sedge Warblers, but also some left-overs from yesterday.
Combined Totals:
Sparrowhawk 1 Hollow
Peregrine 1
Common Buzzard 5 (4 Headland and 1 Hollow)
Kestrel 2
Red-legged Partridge 6 Belle Tout
Green Woodpecker 2 (1 Hollow and 1 Belle Tout wood)
Great-spotted Woodpecker 2 (1 Hollow and 1 juv. on the Headland)
Sand Martin 6
Swallow 40
Pied Wagtail 8 Birling area
Robin 10 Hollow
Nightingale 1 trapped Hollow
Black Redstart 1 Birling
Common Redstart 1 Hotel Gdn.
Wheatear 1
Sedge Warbler 6 (4 Headland and 2 Hollow)
Reed Warbler 44 (9 Headland and c35 Hollow)
Common Whitethroat 63 (43 Headland and 20 Hollow)
Garden Warbler 5 Hollow
Blackcap 3 Hollow
Chiffchaff 5
Willow Warbler 72 (52 Headland and 20 Hollow)
Pied Flycatcher 4 (1 Hotel Gdn., 2 Birling area and 1 Hollow)
Starling 1000 flock
Linnet 50
Corn Bunting 5
Still large numbers of Common Blues and other common butterflies, no estimate made, also 8 Silver Y moths and 2 Hummingbird Hawk moths. SL also recorded the following butterflies:
Chalkhill Blue-many above wood
Common Blue-very many-including clouds on Went hill
Meadow Brown
Small Copper 1-W of wood
Gatekeeper
Small Heath-many
Painted Lady 1 Went Hill
Silver Spotted Skipper c30 around B/T wood and 9 Shooters Bottom
Small Skipper 2
Wall Brown 3
Small White
Sedge Warbler at Birling
Some of today's Reed Warblers at Birling
Hummingbird Hawk Moth at Belle Tout
