16th August 2010 Beachy Head WNW4-5 becoming N3 Sunny

RDME covered the whole area today from Birling to Whitbread Hollow being rewarded with pockets of good numbers of migrants:

Sparrowhawk 1

Buzzard 1 on the ground in Cow Gap

Kestrel 1

Sand Martin 25NE

Swallow 50

Nightingale 1 calling from tamarisk hedge at Birling Gap Lane

Whinchat 4

Pied Flycatcher 5 ex. (2 Old Trapping Area, 2 Icky Ridge & 1 Cliff Path)

Redstart 3 (fem Old Trapping Area, fem Icky Ridge, male Hollow)

Sedge Warbler 1

Garden Warbler 1

Lesser Whitethroat 2

Whitethroat 40

Willow Warbler 55

Raven 1

Pied Flycatcher in the Old Trapping Area

Willow Warbler in the Old Trapping Area

Pied Flycatcher at Icky Ridge