Wednesday 27 July 2011

27th July, 2011 Beachy Head. Cloudy & clear. N2-3

After a short sea-watch we covered a number of sites on the Headland, and RDME was ringing in Whitbread Hollow. Following are the combined totals with the number of birds ringed in brackets:

Shag 1 juv. on the sea a short way out off Birling.
Peregrine 2
Sand Martin 3
Swallow 12
Wheatear 1
Nightingale 1 (1)
Sedge Warbler 1
Reed Warbler 1
Common Whitethroat 30 (6)
Lesser Whitethroat 1 (1)
Garden Warbler 4 (4)
Blackcap 7 (5)
Willow Warbler 45 (11)
Chiffchaff 2 (1)
Raven 2


1stY. Common Whitethroat




Some of today's Willow Warblers