Friday 12 August 2011

12th August, 2011 Beachy Head.Part Cloud, clear W2-3

Visited most of the sites on the Headland and met up with GG at Belle Tout.

RDME was ringing in Whitbread Hollow and the following are our combined totals with birds ringed in brackets:

Fulmar 1
Kestrel 1
Peregrine 2
Yellow Legged Gull 1 Juv in rough field departed W.
Sandwich Tern 3 W
Tawny Owl 1
Swallow 6
Robin 11 (small arrival)
Nightingale 1 in Whitbread Hollow
Common Redstart 1 female type Shooters Bottom.
Stonechat 12
Reed Warbler 3
Lesser Whitethroat 5
Common Whitethroat 82 (17).
Garden Warbler 5 (4)
Blackcap 6 (3)
Chiffchaff 1 (1)
Willow Warbler 26 (8)
Starling 400

Speckled Wood 6
Chalk Hill Blue c20
Small Heath 1
Dingy Skipper 1
Large Skipper 1
Silver Spotted Skipper 3
Painted Lady 1
Red Admiral 3
Brimstone 1 in Whitbread Hollow.

Bat sp.1in Whitbread Hollow

Dingy Skipper by the side of Belle Tout wood.

Painted Lady in Shooters Bottom.

Red Admiral in Shooters Bottom.