6th August, 2020 Beachy Head and Newhaven Harbour Cloudy early morning clearing for a hot and sunny morning. SW to S 1

We covered Birling scrub and tamarisk bushes, radio mast bushes, Hotel garden, sat overlooking Old Trapping area for 35 minutes, Shooters Bottom. RE and SM were ringing in Whitbread Hollow.
An overcast calm early morning and we hoped for a good fall of migrants, but surprisingly the whole area appeared very quiet. Not a single Willow Warbler was recorded from both the Headland and the Hollow and they should now be coming into the peak of their return passage. The only overhead movement was a single party of 10 Swallows moving E.
Combined totals:

Little Egret 1 Birling beach
Sparrowhawk 1 chasing a Green Woodpecker in the Hollow
Common Buzzard 1 Hollow
Tawny Owl 1 Hollow
Swift 1 W
Green Woodpecker 4 (3 Headland, 1 Hollow)
Swallow 10 E
Meadow Pipit 10 Headland
Nightingale 1 calling Hollow
Stonechat 7 Headland
Grasshopper Warbler 1 Hollow
Sedge Warbler 2 Hollow
Reed Warbler 5 Hollow
Lesser Whitethroat 5 (1 Shooters Bottom, 4 Hollow)
Common Whitethroat 27 (20 Headland, 7 Hollow)
Garden Warbler 2 Hollow
Blackcap 7 (1 Headland, 6 Hollow)
Starling 30 Birling
Linnet 50 Headland
Corn Bunting 5 Birling area.

Just shows how bad birding is at the moment on the Headland, I am 

back to photographing Stonechats and Green Woodpeckers.

On our way hone, we called into Newhaven Harbour, good selection of Gulls with around
40 juvenile Herring Gulls, 2 adults and 1 juvenile Lesser black back Gulls, and a pair of adult
Greater Black-backed Gulls feeding a juvenile, and good numbers and good numbers of Black-headed Gulls.