Tuesday 16 July 2013

16 July 2013 Beachy Head Hot, humid with cloud cover 7/8 Virtually no wind.

RDME was ringing this morning in Whitbread Hollow and recorded our first passerine migrant of the Autumn. Birds ringed are shown in brackets:

Song Thrush 3 (2)
Sedge Warbler 1 juv.
Common Whitethroat 3 (2)
Garden Warbler 1
Blackcap 15 (12 with one re-trapped from 2010)
Chiffchaff 8 (6)
Bullfinch 1 re-trapped from 2011

Red Admiral 1