covering the Hotel Garden, Cliff path and onto the Rides, and then back to the radio mast bushes and onto the Old Trapping Area. From there he visited Shooters Bottom returning via Bulling Down. He then drove to Birling visited the lane and Michel Dene, and onto Belle Tout wood area.
RE found Whitbread Hollow to be fairly quiet for migrants but otherwise a nice selection of migrants were seen on the Headland which included 4 Spotted Flycatchers, 3 Pied Flycatchers, (which includes one seen in Cow Gap) and 8 Whinchats.. Overhead migration was very quiet.
Combined totals:
Sparrowhawk 2 Headland
Green Woodpecker 2 Headland
Swallow 30 Headland
Nightingale 1 calling
Common Redstart 2 Shooters Bottom
Whinchat 8 Headland
Stonechat 25 Headland (many juveniles)
Wheatear 2 Headland
Lesser Whitethroat 4 Headland
Common Whitethroat 48 (45 Headland, 3 Hollow)
Garden Warbler 6 Hollow (One re-trap has been present since 29/7).
Blackcap 9 (6 Hollow, 3 Headland)
Chiffchaff 4 Headland
Willow Warbler 43 (12 Hollow and 31 Headland).
Spotted Flycatcher 4 (Singles: Rides, near Old Trapping Area, Shooters Bottom, and Michel Dene).
Pied Flycatcher 3 (1 Cow Gap, 1 Shooters Bottom, 1 Michel Dene)
Raven 2
The following photographs were taken by RJF
Adult type Willow Warbler
Redstarts in Shooters Bottom
Pied Flycatcher
