Friday 28 October 2011

28th October, 2011.Beachy Head. Overcast with drizzle. NE 2-3

We met up with PN at Birling and covered most of the sites on the Head. Good passage of Finches moving over. Saw RKH & RES in Shooters Bottom. RDME, SM & PF were ringing in Whitbread Hollow and the following are our combined totals with birds ringed in brackets:

Grey Heron 1 high over the Top fields.
Sparrowhawk 1
Kestrel 1
Tawny Owl 2
Skylark 70 in rough field.
Swallow 5
Meadow Pipit 60 (40 E)
Alba Wagtail 8 E
Wren 12 (4)
Wheatear 2
Blackbird 22 (7)
Fieldfare 2
Redwing 2
Song Thrush 7 (2 including 1 continental bird).
Blackcap 6 (5)
Yellow Browed Warbler still present at Birling but now in poor condition.
Chiffchaff 2 (1)
Goldcrest 20 (4)
Firecrest 5 (1)
Raven 2
Starling 100 (65 in Whitbread Hollow).
Brambling 3
Goldfinch 1,000 + E
Siskin 1
Linnet 700 (300 E & 400 in rough field).
Lesser Redpoll 40 (27)
Bullfinch 1


Fieldfare in Shooters Bottom

Perhaps the last of this year's Wheatears

Part of the flock of Linnets in the rough field.

Didn't realise that Chachalacas were in Belle Tout wood.