Sunday, 16 August 2020

16th August, 2020 Beachy Head with odd showers

RE, SM and MB were ringing in Whitbread Hollow,  RJF was walking the sites from 06.10 to 13.20 hrs. and  covered Shooters Bottom, Old Trapping Area, Hotel Garden, Cliff Path, Cow Gap, Hollow, Rides, Birling and Belle Tout, and Michel Dene met up with Andrew Whitcombe during the walk.
Combined totals:
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Common Buzzard 1
Peregrine 1
Green Sandpiper 1 Francis Bottom (RJF, ADW)
Green Woodpecker 1
Great-spotted Woodpecker 1
Sand Martin 2
Swallow 7
Tree Pipit 1
Nightingale 2 Shooters Bottom
Common Redstart 1
Stonechat 22
Cetti's Warbler 1 Cow Gap (ADW)
Reed Warbler 5 (4 Hollow)
Lesser Whitethroat 13 Area
Common Whitethroat 57 Area
Garden Warbler 5 Hollow (3 were re-traps and have been present for some time)
Blackcap 25 Hollow
Willow Warbler 20 Hollow
Spotted Flycatcher 5 (3 in the Rides)

Hummingbird Hawk Moth 1 Hollow