With good numbers of Yellow-browed warblers etc. along the east coast yesterday afternoon, our hopes were high but unfortunately no sign of any at Beachy this morning. We met up with RKH and RB and covered Birling lane, Shooters Bottom, Old Trapping Area, Toilet block bushes, Hotel Garden and Belle Tout wood. MM also covered Birling lane, Belle Tout wood and then walked inland covering the downs around Long Down and CB also covered Holywell. RE was ringing in Whitbread Hollow.
A reasonable fall of Chiffchaffs but otherwise just low numbers of Blackcaps and our first Redwings of the Autumn. Very little seen on overhead migration.
Combined totals:
Common Buzzard 3 Headland
Kestrel 3 (2 Headland and 1 Hollow)
Tawny Owl 2 Hollow
Great-spotted Woodpecker 1 flew over the Headland
Skylark 40 Headland
Swallow 10 Hollow
House Martin 6 Hollow
Meadow Pipit 50 Headland
Pied Wagtail 10 Headland
Robin 12 Headland
Stonechat 10 Headland
Wheatear 2 Headland
Blackbird 15 Shooters Bottom chiefly males.
Redwing 9 (8 flew over Headland and 1 Shooters Bottom)
Song Thrush 3 Headland
Blackcap 42 (40 Hollow and 2 Headland)
Chiffchaff 150 (50 Headland, 80 Hollow and 20 Holywell)
Chaffinch 30 Headland
Linnet 40 W
Chiffchaff along Birling lane
Another pale looking colybitta Chiffchaff in the Hotel Garden.
