10th June 2020 - Beeding Hill

A nice find by Richard Fairbank mid-morning of a 2cy male Red-footed Falcon on The Downs above Shoreham. Living close to the site, I managed to get up shortly after it was found and obtained nice views of it along the fence line. I had taken two days off work this week and amazingly this bird decided to turn up on my days off, perfect!! Also a Cuckoo there.

The previous evening there had been a report of another Red-footed Falcon on The Downs above Mile Oak, it turned out that there were two different birds only about 2 miles apart from each other as the bird flys!

2cy male Red-footed Falcon, Beeding Hill, West Sussex