JFC's Birding: 24th September, 2018 Beachy Head Sunny, cold at first becoming warm N 2

With a light but cold N wind and clear skies, expectations were not great. We covered Shooters Bottom, Old Trapping Area, Toilet Block bushes, Hotel Garden, Icky Ridge and Belle Tout wood, and RE was ringing in Whitbread Hollow. Reasonable numbers of Chiffchaffs and Blackcaps with Meadow Pipits in good numbers with a number seen coming in over the cliffs, a Siskin moved W overhead and 2,000 + House Martins, with many moving W, and still the odd Sand Martins with them.
Combined Totals:

Sparrowhawk 3 (2 Headland, 1 of which flew out to sea, and 1 Hollow)
Common Buzzard 1 Hollow
Kestrel 3 (2 Headland and 1 Hollow)
Stock Dove 1 E over the Headland
Wood Pigeon 40 Hollow
Tawny Owl 1 Hollow
Green Woodpecker 1 Hollow
Great-spotted Woodpecker 1 B/T wood
Sand Martin 6 Headland
Swallow c130 chiefly W
House Martin c2,000 many moving W
Meadow Pipit 200 (150 overhead and 50 Top fields)
Pied Wagtail 2 Shooters Bottom
Wheatear 2 Headland
Song Thrush 3 Headland
Common Whitethroat 2 Headland
Blackcap 111 (100 Hollow and 11 Headland)
Chiffchaff 108 (33 Headland and 75 Hollow)
Willow Warbler 1 Hollow
Jay 2 Hollow
Raven 2 Headland
Starling 300 mobbing a Sparrowhawk
Chaffinch 30 Headland
Goldfinch 50 Headland
Siskin 1 W calling over Shooters Bottom

Meadow Brown 4 B/T
Comma 1 B/T
Red Admiral 1 B/T