At long last a fairly calm morning although rain started mid-morning. We covered Shooters Bottom, Old Trapping Area, Toilet block bushes, Hotel Garden, Icky Ridge, and Belle Tout wood.
As expected, not to many night migrants on the Headland after the recent strong winds, although the highlight was a Turtle Dove (my first for two years), which flew through Shooters Bottom and then returned flying west. Meadow Pipits and hirundines were moving into the wind. RE and MB were ringing in Whitbread Hollow and had their busiest day of the Autumn, with large numbers of Blackcaps and Chiffchaffs seen and ringed.
Combined totals:
Sparrowhawk 1 Hollow
Kestrel 4-5 Headland
Peregrine 1
Tawny Owl 2 Hollow
Green Woodpecker 1 Hollow
Turtle Dove 1 Shooters Bottom departed W.
Sand Martin 22
Swallow 150 W
House Martin 160 (60 W and 100 in Hollow)
Meadow Pipit 250 (200 W, 40 in set-a-side field and 10 in Hollow)
Robin 10 Hollow
Whinchat 1 Set-a-side field
Stonechat 10
Blackbird 15
Song Thrush 2
Grasshopper Warbler 1 Hollow
Sedge Warbler 1 Hollow
Common Whitethroat 3 (2 Headland and 1 Hollow)
Blackcap 403 (400 Hollow and 3 Headland)
Chiffchaff 518 (500 Hollow and 18 Headland)
Willow Warbler 3
Firecrest 1 Hollow
Goldfinch 50
