We flushed a dark coloured Marsh Harrier in Shooters Bottom at 07.25 and it flew up towards the fields near Beachy Head Hotel and after an hour it was seen flying out of these fields and headed off E. It appeared to have little or no white around the head and was therefore considered to be a different bird to what we saw last week-end. Otherwise very few migrants were present in the bushes, Whinchat numbers had increased to 11 and 2 Grasshopper Warblers were present in the Hollow, and Blackcap numbers are beginning to build up.
Just small numbers of Swallows and House Martins were moving E with the odd Yellow Wagtails.
Marsh Harrier 1 flushed from Shooters Bottom at 07.25 (JFC:DRC) and was later seen in the field by B.H.pub and departed E at 08.30 (RKH:RES and KH).
Sparrowhawk 1 Headland
Common Buzzard 1 Hollow
Kestrel 3
Peregrine 1
Tawny Owl 1 Hollow
Green Woodpecker 1 Hollow
Swallow c50 E
House Martin c250 (100 E and 150 Hollow)
Yellow Wagtail 8 E
Whinchat 11 in field opposite B/T wood.
Wheatear 1
Grasshopper Warbler 2 Hollow
Reed Warbler 10 Hollow
Lesser Whitethroat 7
Common Whitethroat 18 (10 Hollow and 8 Headland)
Garden Warbler 1 Hollow
Blackcap 110 (100 Hollow and 10 Headland)
Chiffchaff 2 Hollow
Willow Warbler 9 (6 Headland and 3 Hollow)
Marsh Harrier flushed at close range in Shooters Bottom
in very dull light, but unfortunately flew directly away from us
Lesser Whitethroat in Shooters Bottom
Willow Warbler in the Hotel Garden-now why couldn't this
have been a Green Warbler with the easterly winds.
Poor shots of some House Martins moving through Icky Ridge.
