GEDSER - 8th September

Still very settled but again the clear, calm, sunny and warm weather didn’t produce big numbers of birds in the nets as we managed 38 new birds but the total did include 5 Sparrowhawks (two males and three females – all juveniles).   The day’s highlight came early on with a 1st winter Golden Oriole seen perched on the top of one of the pines along the western edge of the garden warming up in the first rays of sunshine early morning.

                There was a similar pattern to the overhead migration with a few Siskin and Chaffinch flocks early on along with a few waders including Snipe, Dunlin and Ringed Plover but it soon dried up after the first couple of hours.

                A look at the point late afternoon (1645-1800) produced not too much with 20 Dunlin, 2 Ringed Plover, 18 Wigeon, 4 Teal, a single female Velvet Scoter, 3 Common Scoter, 19 Sandwich Terns and 3 Common Terns.

 

Golden Oriole

Sparrowhawk

Buzzard

Goosander