Arlington Reservoir
Cuckoo h
Turtle Dove h
Swift c.10
Swallow c.100
Red-rumped Swallow 2 ex.
House Martin c.100
Sand Martin c.10
Red-rumped Swallow at Arlington Reservoir
Beachy Head NE3 Overcast and cold
Shelduck 4 over Top Fields
Hobby 1
Red-legged Partridge 1 Cow Gap
Bar-tailed Godwit 1 Top Fields
Swift 72 in off
Wheatear 2
Stonechat 6
Yellow Wagtail 2 in off
Swallow 11 in off
House Martin 27 in off (including a tight flock of 25)
Reed Warbler 2h
Blackcap 4
Whitethroat 23
Lesser Whitethroat 2h
Chiffchaff 2h
Willow Warbler 5
Raven 1
Hobby over Birling Gap
Apparent male Continental Stonechat Saxicola torquata rubicola
This striking returning male is again holding territory. It has a broad white rump with grey shaft-streaking to its uppertail-coverts. The images portray the requisite extensive white belly extending to the centre of its lower breast, white flanks, sooty-grey underwing-coverts with white fringes (buff-grey in hibernans) and its large flared white neck patches all of which are considered characters of this form (Walker 2001 & Urquhart 2002).
Male Wheatear at the Old Trapping Area
Raven over the Old Trapping Area
Female Wheatear at Cow Gap Beach
Long-tailed Tit in the Gully
Dingy Skipper in Whitbread Hollow
