1st August 2010 Beachy Head Calm and Overcast becoming WSW2-3

Bob Edgar's ringing totals are included in brackets and his Hollow numbers have been added to those recorded in the area generally:

Sparrowhawk 1

Peregrine 1

Stock Dove 3

Great Spotted Woodpecker 1

Swift 2W

Swallow 8

Sand Martin 4

Wheatear 1 (RES)

Stonechat 11

Nightingale h croaking Chat Vale

Grasshopper Warbler 3 (1)

Reed Warbler 11 (6)

Sedge Warbler 2

Garden Warbler 2 (1)

Blackcap 5

Whitethroat 50 (3)

Lesser Whitethroat 1

Willow Warbler 50 (18)

Chiffchaff 2 (1) RDME notes that it is interesting how they have suddenly disappeared from the Hollow after the recent daily totals

Raven 2

Corn Bunting 2

Comma 1

Red Admiral 1

Marbled White 1

White-lettered Hairstreak 1

Silver-spotted Skipper 2

Jacob Everitt had a stroll round the edges of Horseshoe Plantation that produced the following: 25+ Silver-spotted Skipper, 5 Large Skipper, 8 Comma, 3 Large White, 6 Small White, 1 White Letter Hairstreak, 5 Small Copper, 20+ Common Blue, 50+ Chalkhill Blue, 2 Small Tortoiseshell, 2 Marbled White, 15+ Meadow Brown, 3 Small Heath and 10+ Gatekeeper. Also a single fresh Dingy Skipper! Lovely few hours butterflying!

Sedge Warbler at Birling Gap

First-year Sedge Warbler at Birling Gap

Reed Warbler in Cow Gap Gully

Silver-spotted Skipper and Flesh Fly (Roger Haggar)

Meadow Grasshopper in Chat Vale (Roger Haggar)