Soil Hill & Whiteholme; Week 19th July - 25th July

Soil Hill
  Despite spending most of the week at Spurn, there was still enough time for a few visits to Soil Hill. The first Common Gulls of the autumn returned this week, and by the weekend they could regularly be picked out feeding with the Black-headed Gulls in the recently cut fields.
  The first real movement of Willow Warblers also started this week, with 17 on the 19^th, 10 of which were all in the same bush. On the 25^th there was another small influx with 13 present. Time will tell if these are the highest counts of the year.
  Also on the 19^th a single Collared Dove flew south past the Ned Hill Track. A lot of species seem to have turned out second broods, with juvenile Blackbird, Robin and Wren all recorded this week. And finally on the 25^th July there was a Grasshopper Warbler at the bottom of the North Slope. It was not singing and only found because it flushed from long grass. 

-Rook

Species List

Soil Hill: Canada Goose, Mallard, Red-legged Partridge, Common Pheasant, Feral Pigeon, Stock Dove, Common Wood Pigeon, Eurasian Collared Dove, Common Swift, Common Moorhen, Northern Lapwing, Common Snipe, Black-headed Gull, Common Gull, Lesser Black-backed Gull, Eurasian Sparrowhawk, Common Kestrel, Peregrine Falcon Eurasian Magpie, Western Jackdaw, Rook, Carrion Crow, Eurasian Blue Tit, Great Tit, Eurasian Skylark, Common Grasshopper Warbler, Barn Swallow, Willow Warbler, Common Whitethroat, Eurasian Wren, Common Starling, Mistle Thrush, Common Blackbird, European Robin, Dunnock, House Sparrow, Pied Wagtail, Meadow Pipit, Common Chaffinch, European Greenfinch, Common Linnet, European Goldfinch, Common Reed Bunting,