Thursday 21 August 2014

21 Aug 2014 Beachy Head, cool at first (first morning below 50 deg F), cloud 1/8 to 3/8 WNW 2/3 inc 3/4

Several members of the BHRG were ringing in Whitbread Hollow this morning, RKH and RES covered The Old Trapping Area, Shooters Bottom and Birling. Generally a quieter morning with a reasonable selection of common migrants, with the highlight being a Melodious Warbler in Hodcombe.
Combined totals with birds ringed are shown in brackets:

Common Buzzard 1
Sparrowhawk 4 soaring together
Tawny Owl 2
Great-spotted Woodpecker 1
Swallow 4
Tree Pipit 1
Flava Wagtail 6
Redstart 3
Blackbird 10 (4)
Grasshopper Warbler 1
Reed Warbler 3 (1)
Melodious Warbler 1 Hodcombe
Lesser Whitethroat 2 (1)
Common Whitethroat 51 (14)
Garden Warbler 6 (3)
Blackcap 80 (27)
Chiffchaff 1 (1)
Willow Warbler 21 (7)
Spotted Flycatcher 3
Bullfinch 3 (2)

Red Admiral 3
Clouded Yellow 2
Painted Lady 2
Adonis Blue 1
Hummingbird Hawkmoth 1