Beachy Head area 26th July, 2009

View looking across Birling Gap to the Seven Sisters.

Adult and Juvenile Pied Wagtails at Birling Gap

Arrived with DC at 06.15 hrs in an overcast but fairly calm morning. Birded the area for almost 5 hours, briefly met RDME at the Old Trapping Area.

Little Egret 1 on beach at Birling Gap

Swift 40 drifted West

Sand Martin 6

Pied Wagtail 3 (Adult feeding 1 young at Birling Gap).

Stonechat 6 (very low numbers being seen at present).

Grasshopper Warbler 2+ in Cow Gap

Sedge Warbler 2

Reed Warbler 3 (First for the Autumn).

Lesser Whitethroat 1

Common Whitethroat 20

Blackcap 1

Willow Warbler 7

Raven 1 East over Birling Gap

Starling 300+ (Many juveniles) at Birling Gap

Corn Bunting 1 with House Sparrows at Birling Gap.