RDME was ringing in Whitbread Hollow and also briefly visited Belle Tout wood. SL covered Crowlink, Birling to Belle Tout loop, Belle Tout wood and Shooters Bottom. RKH, RES and KH covered the usual birding sites on the Headland. Small numbers of night migrants which included 16 Ring Ouzels and 1 Dartford Warbler. Reasonable easterly diurnal passage with 1,000 Goldfinches, 200 Linnets with 5 Jays west.
Following are the combined totals with birds ringed are shown in brackets:
Sparrowhawk 2
Common Buzzard 1
Kestrel 1
Peregrine 2-4
Tawny Owl 3
Swallow 200
House Martin 170
Alba Wagtail 4
Robin 10+ (5)
Wheatear 1
Ring Ouzel 16 spread all over the Head including Crowlink and the Hollow
Mistle Thrush 3
Song Thrush 5 (2 trapped of which 1 was a continental race).
Dartford Warbler 1
Blackcap 7+ (5)
Chiffchaff 43 (21)
Goldcrest 5 (2)
Jay 5 W
Brambling 5
Goldfinch c1,000 E
Linnet 200 E
Reed Bunting 4
Corn Bunting 11
Red Admiral 3
