Sunday, 30 September 2018

30th September, 2018 Beachy Head Sunny periods NW 1-2

SL and JG started off at Crowlink and then walked to Belle Tout and back, and RE was ringing in Whitbread Hollow. SL found it to be very quiet with very few migrants seen and RE again had reasonable numbers of Chiffchaffs and Blackcaps also 1 Hobby and trapped a continental Song Thrush.
Combined totals:

Sparrowhawk 2 (1 Hollow and 1 Headland)
Common Buzzard 4
Kestrel 3 (1 Hollow and 2 Headland)
Hobby 1 Hollow
Peregrine 2 Headland
Tawny Owl 3 Hollow
Green Woodpecker 1 Hollow
Swallow c100
House Martin c600 (c500 Hollow and 100 Headland)
Wheatear 1 Birling
Song Thrush 1 continental Hollow
Blackcap 75 Hollow
Chiffchaff 80 (75 Hollow and 5 Headland)
Long-tailed Tit 3 Hollow
Raven 2 Headland

Clouded Yellow 2
Wall 1
Common Blue 1
Speckled Wood 3
Meadow Brown 3
Small Heath 3
Small Copper 3
Red Admiral 1