Saturday 3 September 2011

3rd September 2011 Beachy Head W1 Foggy at dawn

Little Egret 2
Common Buzzard 2
Sparrowhawk 2
Kestrel 2-3
Hobby 1 juv. ex.
Sand Martin c.20W
House Martin c.200W
Swallow c.500W
Wryneck 1 ex. Chat Vale
alba Wagtail 3
Yellow Wagtail 1 + 3h
Wheatear 30
Whinchat 2
Grasshopper Warbler 1
Reed Warbler 1
Whitethroat 20
Lesser Whitethroat 1
Blackcap 15
Garden Warbler 1
Chiffchaff 2
Willow Warbler 4
Raven 6

Clouded Yellow 1
Painted Lady 1

Wheatear at Belle Tout 







Wryneck in Chat Vale
The darker iris, wholly pink bill, more extensive white ground colour to its submoustacial-stripe, fewer dark-centred scapulars and larger pale spotting to its wing coverts reveal this to be a different individual to that photographed at the same site the previous weekend.