Monday 25 July 2011

25th July, 2011 Beachy Head, Clear, cool & sunny becoming hot. NW 2-3

We sea-watched from 06.30 - 07.00 and then walked the lane at Birling. We then covered the Old Trapping area, Hotel Garden, The Rides, Chat Vale, & Belle Tout area. We met up with PN., MN., & RKH.
RDME was ringing in Whitbread Hollow.

The following are the combined totals of birds etc seen including birds ringed in brackets.

A sad note is that I found a dead Tawny Owl on the road near Belle Tout wood. It appeared to have a broken neck and was probably hit by a car.

Fulmar 2
Gannet 21
Common Scoter 1 E
Kestrel 2
Kittiwake A party of 25 (all juveniles) feeding off Birling Gap.
Great Spotted Woodpecker 2
Sand Martin 25 W
Swallow 35
Common Redstart 1 at Birling
Sedge Warbler 1
Reed Warbler 1
Lesser Whitethroat 1
Common Whitethroat 40 (8)
Garden Warbler 1 (1)
Blackcap 4 (4)
Chiffchaff 15 (11 all juvs., also 1 re-trapped which was ringed in the Hollow on the 28 July, 2010)
Willow Warbler 22 (4)
Bullfinch 2

Speckled Wood 5
Peacock 2
Marbled White 2
Brown Argus 2
Chalk Hill Blue 50+
Small Skipper 2
Painted Lady 1
Red Admiral 6

Migrant Hawker Dragonfly 6+
Emperor Dragonfly 1 male

Tachina Gossa 2 (1 in the Hotel Garden & 1 in B/T wood).

Doreen birding at Beachy



Willow Warblers

Painted Lady


Female Chalk Hill Blue