Tuesday 7 August 2012

7 August 2012 Beachy Head 5/8ths cloud, cool W 1 increasing to 4

Fall of migrants in Whitbread Hollow although only a handful of migrants were seen on the Head when we covered most of the sites between Birling lane and the Hotel Garden. Met up with both RK & RES briefly. Bob was birding and ringing in Whitbread Hollow birds ringed shown in brackets:

Common Scoter 10 E
Kestrel 1
Sandwich Tern 2 E
Great Spotted Woodpecker 1
Sand Martin 3
Nightingale 1
Stonechat 6
Wheatear 2
Grasshopper Warbler 1 (1)
Sedge Warbler 6 (5)
Reed Warbler 2 (1)
Common Whitethroat 27 (9)
Garden Warbler 7 (7) 
Blackcap 2 (1)
Chiffchaff 1
Willow Warbler 57 (36)
Long Tailed Tit 1 (1)
Bullfinch 1
Raven 3

Wall Butterfly 1
Red Admiral 1






Male Stonechat with his overcoat on.


 


Willow Warblers at Birling