Sunday, 12 September 2010

12th September 2010 Beachy Head NW2 Clear after overnight rain

Birds trapped in the hollow follow in brackets:

Buzzard 1-2
Honey Buzzard 1 (Chris Ball)
Sparrowhawk 5
Merlin 1
Hobby 1
Kestrel 5
Collared Dove 1
Swallow 125W
Sand Martin 12W
House Martin 975W
Great Spotted Woodpecker 1
Wryneck 1 (Chris Ball)
Skylark 6
Yellow Wagtail 5
Grey Wagtail 9W
Tree Pipit 23
Meadow Pipit 125
Blackbird 15
Ring Ouzel 1 in the hollow
Robin 6
Redstart 2
Wheatear 62
Whinchat 12
Grasshopper Warbler 2 (1)
Reed Warbler 5 (3) including the dark individual retrapped again
Sedge Warbler 6 (5)
Whitethroat 170 (25)
Lesser Whitethroat 1
Blackcap 260 (106)
Garden Warbler 4 (2)
Icterine Warbler 1 ex. at top of Birling Lane
Chiffchaff 60 (17)
Willow Warbler 14 (4)
Spotted Flycatcher 3
Lapland Bunting 1W at c.9.15am over below the Old Belle Tout Lighthouse
Ortolan Bunting 1 still opposite Belle Tout Wood
Linnet c.150
Raven 1
Icterine Warbler at Birling Gap (Matt Eade)

Icterine Warbler at Birling Gap (Jake Everitt)

Ortolan Bunting at Belle Tout (Matt Eade)

Ortolan Bunting at Belle Tout (Jake Everitt)

House Martins over Belle Tout

Whinchat at Birling Gap

Garden Warbler in the Old Trapping Area