GEDSER - 7th August

Still breezy first thing but nowhere as windy as yesterday afternoon / evening but the nets were still on the quiet side with 28 new birds including a single Marsh Warbler, a Spotted Flycatcher and a Redstart (the first day since I arrived with no new Icterine Warblers!).   Single Wood Sandpiper, Green Sandpiper, Golden Plover and Tree Pipit flew over the garden through the morning.

                The wind was slowly picking up so I nipped over to Bøtø late morning just before a small shower where there were plenty of birds to keep me going with the highlights being a cracking adult male White-spotted Bluethroat foraging along the base of the reeds and a good spread of waders with 21 Wood Sandpipers and 4 Spotted Redshanks the pick along with 6 Greenshank, 16 Dunlin, a juvenile Knot, 2 juvenile Ruff and 4 Common Sandpipers.   Other birds comprised 2 Great White Egrets, 4 Garganey, 97 Teal (a big increase on the last time I was there), a few Gadwall and Shoveler, a sub-adult White-tailed Eagle, a juvenile Water Rail, 13 Herons and some pinging Bearded Tits in the reeds.

 

Lesser Redpoll