14th September, 2018 Beachy Head Overcast and humid. NW to SW 0 increasing to 3.

We covered Birling lane, Shooters Bottom, Old Trapping Area, and met up with ME who had covered Whitbread Hollow and the Cow Gap area, and RAB who have covered the Cattle Field area and track to Long Down, Toilet Block bushes, Hotel Garden and Icky Ridge. We then visited Belle Tout wood with RAB who then walked the Cornish Farm track and also the field opposite Shooters Bottom.
Fewer migrants present this morning at most of the sites visited, and again little diurnal migration recorded.
Combined Totals:

Little Egret 1 Birling beach
Sparrowhawk 4 Headland
Common Buzzard 1 Headland
Kestrel 5 Headland
Merlin 1 Cattle Field
Peregrine 1
Great-spotted Woodpecker 1 Headland
Swallow 100 Headland
Tree Pipit 1 over Hollow area
Meadow Pipit 120 Headland
Yellow Wagtail 6 W
Robin 5 Birling
Black Redstart 1 female type Birling
Whinchat 14 (3 Cow Gap and 11 Headland)
Wheatear 6 Headland
Common Whitethroat 9
Blackcap 52 (40 Hollow and 12 Headland)
Chiffchaff 100 (50 Hollow area and 50 Headland)
Firecrest 1 Icky Ridge
Spotted Flycatcher 2 (1 Headland and 1 Hollow area)
Jay 3 (2 Cow Gap and 1 Shooters Bottom which departed E)
Raven 3 Headland
Chaffinch 25 Headland
Linnet 60 set-a-side field
Reed Bunting 1 Cow Gap
Corn Bunting 28 set-a-side field.

Chiffchaffs in the Old Trapping Area.

Now in their typical Autumn olive plumage.

Almost count the emarginations.

Moving off.

 

Jay in Shooters Bottom (not often do you see them in Shooters Bottom).