Monday, 29 September 2014

29 Sept 2014 Beachy Head Cloudy and warm N 1 increasing to 3

RDME was ringing in Whitbread Hollow and LP visited Shooters Bottom and RB visited both Shooters Bottom and Belle Tout and Birling areas. Good fall of night migrants chiefly Chiffchaffs and Blackcaps with Alba Wagtails, Skylarks and Linnets moving E.

The following are the combined totals with birds ringed in brackets:

Sparrowhawk 2 (1) (1 was seen to take and kill a Green Woodpecker)
Kestrel 2
Skylark 30 E
Swallow 400 E
House Martin 100 E
Meadow Pipit 40
Yellow Wagtail 1 E
Alba Wagtail 30 E
Song Thrush 7 (1 continental race trapped)
Reed Warbler 6 (3)
Common Whitethroat 1
Garden Warbler 2
Blackcap 750 (93)
Chiffchaff 300 (39)
Goldcrest 6 (1)
Spotted Flycatcher 1
Long-tailed Tit 2 (1)
Jay 2
Linnet 60 E
Bullfinch 2 (1)